Special Shiur: History of BMT and the Horwitz Family - Apr 8, 2024 - Video of this Shiur on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QMwVrKJa13w

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 9:216: May or Should One Institute Takanot Against Jews Who Are Not Sufficiently Observant? In General, How Should We Relate to Less Observant Jews in Modern Times? Long Term Consequences are Crucial. - Apr 7, 2024 - R' Klein's lady editor. R' Moshe: Son must obey father & not go to yeshiva he preferred. London student forbidden to attend BMT came back to observance and Torah. Student whom R' Elchanan told not to attend YC is identified. Should one...

Volozhin Yeshiva: R' Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) is Now Dominant. Descriptions of Some of the Students. What Made Volozhin Special for Them. Writing Biographies. Graetz. Historical Development of Talmud - Apr 1, 2024 - Shabbtai Tzvi, his effect on Sephardim, R' Emden vs. R' Eybeschutz, Cleves get & all of the above, their impact on rise of Reform Judaism. Israeli Post office. R' Friedman regretted contributing to responsum permitting driving on Shabbat. How birth of Conservative...

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 9:216: May or Should One Institute תקנות in a Shul Against Jews Who Are Not Sufficiently Observant? In General, How Should We Relate to Less Observant Jews and Do We Expel Such Students from Yeshivot? Sabbateans? - Mar 31, 2024 - Chabad visiting soldiers on Purim. R' Elchonon Wasserman's letter to a student: Do not study at Dr. Revel's yeshiva. Mishneh Halachot 9:216. Should one institute תקנות discriminating against non-observant Jews such as no aliyot nor...

Volozhin Yeshiva: What Was Crucially Important to R' Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) & Therefore What Did He Think Should Not Play Any Role Within the Yeshiva. His Broadness Outside the Yeshiva. Why Did R' Chaim Select Volozhin Instead of Vilna. - Mar 18, 2024 - Daniel Peretz, הי"ד & his family. The Rav & במה מדליקין. R' Dovid Lifshitz & his wife. R' Bezalel Naor & Richard Nyer. R' Kook wearing tefillin all day in Volozhin was not appreciated. Split in Mercaz HaRav...

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 6:158: Son Wants to Transfer to Study in a Different School With a Different Rav (Teacher). Father is Opposed and is Worried in the New School With Fewer But Brilliant Students His Son's Learning Will Suffer Badly - Mar 17, 2024 - R' Karmi Gross & derechaim.com. Megillah 3a: Army&Torah study. שבט לוי ומלחמת מצוה. R' Hutner: NY Times. R' Y. Kamenetsky on child carrying tallit on Shabbat. Shabbos goyim of Kew Gardens Hills. Milking cows on Shabbat....

Volozhin Yeshiva: What Was Important to R' Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) and Therefore What Did He Think Should be Important Within the Yeshiva Versus What Should not Play Any Role There. - Mar 11, 2024 - Charedim, IDF & concept of: The land shall spit you out. Chatam Sofer: We do put on tefillin in Israel. BMT reunion planned. Netziv. Beit HaLevi leaves for Slutsk & the yeshiva calms down. The role of R' Refael Shapiro. The yeshiva is safe. The Rav & R' Ahron Soloveichik...

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 10:308: Minor Daughter Doing Blood Test on Mother on Shabbat. 10:309: A Second Opinion: Is it Permissible to Ask a Second Rav One's Halakhic Question, One That is הלכה למעשה? - Mar 10, 2024 - Charedim and IDF: Both must adapt. Names of son-in-law and father-in-law should (not must) differ. Minor daughter doing blood test on pregnant diabetic mother on Shabbat. חבּורה is issue of כיבוד אב ואם. Shabbat violation only if a minimal quantity of blood is taken....

Volozhin Yeshiva: R' Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) and R' Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (בית הלוי). The Unpleasant Conflict Among the Students as to Which of the Two Should be the Rosh Yeshiva. Resolution of the Conflict. - Mar 4, 2024 - Charedi-faction demonstration of March 3, 2024, was chilul Hashem plus Reform Judaism. R' Chaim Volozhiner and his reading the letter of his married student. Gottesman and Lamport families. Louis Jacobs. The Yeshiva College 1935 scandal. Jewish authors of...

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 10:308: May a Minor Daughter Do Required Blood Tests on Her Pregnant Diabetic Mother on Shabbat When There is No One Else Available? - Mar 3, 2024 - Learning Torah in addition to, not instead of, army. Exemptions of שבט לוי. How IDF must prepare for Charedim. Balagan. Wives are Amalek. Say מרור זה & point to wife. Mishneh Halachot 10:308: Minor daughter doing blood test on pregnant diabetic mother on Shabbat. Bloodletting by son on a father: Bavli...

Volozhin Yeshiva: R' Yehoshua Heschel Levine Challenges R' Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) for Position of Rosh Yeshiva. The Unpleasant Conflict That Resulted. - Feb 26, 2024 - Unusual responsa of R' Menashe Klein as compared to other poskim. Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe in Lakewood. Mekor Barukh compared to his Torah Temimah. My Uncle the Netziv. Future disputes in Litvish yeshivahs can be seen as influenced by the original machloket in Volozhin Yeshiva. Should we leave things out when...

R' Menashe Klein Mishneh Halachot: Parents Insist Adult Daughter Who is Excellent Teacher of Torah Resign & Instead Join Family Business. Minor Daughter Doing Blood Test on Diabetic Pregnant Mother on Shabbat Where This is the Only Option Available. - Feb 25, 2024 - Charedim in the army: Problem of men & women together. Understanding who the Rav was. R' Yitzhak Twersky: Perpetuating the Masorah by Carmi Horowitz & David Shapiro. The Rav's letter about his driveway. DiMaggio's...

Vilna and Zhitomir Rabbinical Schools as Alternatives to Volozhin Yeshiva. Spread and Influence of Enlightenment. Russification. R' Yitzhak Volozhiner. R' Yisrael Salanter. R' Eliezer Fried. Netziv. R' Yehoshua Heschel Levine. R' Revel. - Feb 19, 2024 - R' Yitzchak Sladowsky. TorahApp from R' Gil Student. The Rav's driveway. Negel vasser and the Gra. More difficult to solve halakhic problems of Shabbat within Police vs. Army. Mercaz HaRav Yeshivah vs. Yeshivat Har Hamor. Napoleon's Sanhedrin:...

Mechitzah. Mishneh Halakhot: Mother-in-Law Living With Daughter & Son-in-Law Insists on Doing Some Housework. R' Moshe Deutsch: How Wives are Similar to Amalek. R' Menashe Klein: Parents Insist Daughter Stops Teaching Torah & Joins Family Business. - Feb 18, 2024 - TheTorahApp. Why the issue of mechitzah was more dominant decades ago than other violations of Halachah. Reasons for honoring one's in-laws (Yoreh Deah 240:24): 1) They're older. 2) Husband & wife are בשר אחד. Mishneh...

Charedim Need Our Guidance. Volozhin Yeshiva: The Roles of Both Emotion and Scholarship in Perpetuating Torah Judaism. Synthesis of Chassidut and Volozhin. R' Yitzhak Succeeds his Father R' Chaim. R' Yitzhak's Attitude Toward Secular Studies. - Feb 12, 2024 - Aliyah. Charedim: the Army, & Core Curriculum. The dominance, but not total, of Yishuv Eretz Yisrael. The YU community should provide guidance to the Charedi community. The woman doctor who embraced R' Moshe Feinstein. The movement...

Rav Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot: Modern Parents Order Their Daughter Not to Marry a Young Talmid Chacham Who is Not Modern. Also: You Can't Go Home Again. - Feb 11, 2024 - Letter from Michael Reinsdorf. Letter from Lakewood on child abuse. Mishneh Halakhot 16:61: Modern parents order their daughter not to marry young Charedi Talmid Chacham who is not "modern". Reaction of Charedi who visited Yeshivat Kakotel. Parents ask child to violate Shabbat. R' Rakeffet's bar mitzvah. Ketubot 52...

Various Aspects of Volozhin Yeshiva: The Nature of its Students. R' Chaim's Various Roles. Attitude to Secular Education. Comparison of Chabad Yeshiva in Kishinev to Volozhin. The Roles of Emotion & Scholarship in Perpetuating Torah Judaism. - Feb 5, 2024 - Understanding Chatam Sofer's derashot in context of his time. What became of the family of Isaac Anixter of Chicago an 1879 student in Volozhin Yeshiva (VY)? Students of VY were often admitted at a very young age. Examples: R' Isser...

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halachot: Modern Parents Order Their Daughter Not to Marry a Young Talmid Chacham Who is Not "Modern." - Feb 4, 2024 - R' Zevulun Charlop: His broadness. R' Daniel Rosenthal: Aspects of his life starting at age 5. Letter from Lakewood describing the writer's actual professional observations of the terrible impact of sexual abuse on more than thirty victims, mainly young girls. Mishneh Halachot 16:61: Modern parents order their daughter not to marry a young Charedi...

The Development of Volozhin Yeshiva Focusing on Various Attributes and Characteristics That Contributed to its Greatness and More Widespread Recognition. - Jan 22, 2024 - Applying עקידת יצחק to better understand R' Chaim Volozhiner not attacking Chassidut as strongly as did the Gra. Comparisons of Lita to Chassidut. Isaac son of R' Yehuda Eliezer Anixter of Chicago studied in Volozhin in 1879. Growth in size of student body & its impact. Why R' Chaim Volozhiner needed to hire an...

Gaza War: A Comment. Mishneh Halachot: Never Report to the Non-Jewish Authorities About a Child Who Was Molested. Murderer Who Confessed to a Rav. Mishneh Halachot: Modern Parents Order Daughter Not to Marry Young Talmid Chacham Who is Not Modern. - Jan 21, 2024 - Gaza War: It is harmful to publicize in media the disputes about freeing the hostages. R' Zevulun Charlop zt"l: A brief biography. His broadness & success as a teacher. R' Dov Eliach. A movie shows R' Shimon Shkop at RIETS....

Creation of Volozhin Yeshiva by Rav Chaim Volozhiner. How Torah Study Was Viewed by R' Chaim Compared to by Chassidut. Role of Memoir Literature in Writing History. Geographical Origins of Student Body - Jan 15, 2024 - Increase over time of political overtones affecting Yom Tov Sheni pesaq. R' Shneur Kotler vs. R' Aharon Kotler on Chabad. R' Chaim vs. the Gra on Chassidut. The different ways R' Chaim Volozhiner & Chassidut saw the importance & role of Torah study. Nefesh Ha'Tzimtzum...

Gaza War: Stories and Comments. R' Menashe Klein, Mishneh Halachot 16:58. Teachers Beating Students. Reporting to the Authorities About a Child Who Was Molested - Jan 14, 2024 - Gaza War: Stories including R' Rakeffet's grandson's wallet plus some comments. Concept of dor hamidbar applied to 20th Century olim. Epilepsy can be life threatening. Erectile dysfunction vs. infertility applied to מקח טעות. Removing a mistreated or molested child from a family for adoption by a non-religious family...

Creation of Volozhin Yeshiva by Rav Chaim Volozhiner. Rav Chaim's 1802 Letter. The Various Opinions Even Disagreements as to What Motivated Rav Chaim Volozhiner to Create Volozhin Yeshiva. - Jan 8, 2024 - Uri Pilochowski article (Jerusalem Post): The purpose of Zionism. We in Israel who grew up abroad are Dor Ha-midbar. Ibn Ezra on this concept. What motivated Rav Rakeffet to finish Shas. Letter from Rav Chaim Volozhiner in Mosdot Hatorah book by Shmuel Kalman Mirsky, pg. 4. Rav Chaim...

Mishneh Halachot 16:58: Chatam Sofer: Sending Daughter to a Gentile Medical Institution Where Treatment is Life Threatening & Conversion is a Possibility. Rosh: Wife Shows Symptoms of Epilepsy & Husband Now Rejects Her. Concept of טוב שימות זכאי - Jan 7, 2024 - R' Rakeffet's biologist grandson and also his doctor grandson. Amalek, Kol Dodi Dofek in Russian, and the KGB. Don't confuse Science and Halakhah-Torah. Hebron 1929: Arabs saved Jews. Sbarro bombing and small children of the...

Creation of Volozhin Yeshiva by Rav Chaim Volozhiner. R' Chaim's 1802 Letter. Why and How the Yeshiva Should be Created. Serving in the IDF. Opposition to the 2023 Demonstration in Washington. - Jan 1, 2024 - R' Rakeffet's father's father. Wallet of grandson is found. תינוק שנשבה. Amalek today. Photo of Chafetz Chaim's wife. How Torah was taught in E. Europe before Volozhin. Creation of Yad Tamar Shul, Yerushalayim. History of Volozhin Yeshiva's actual building 1803-2025. אבי הישיבות by R'...