Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

  | PROFILES | LASTING LINK  By  Pearl Herzog   | NOVEMBER 23, 2016 All credit goes to the author and the mishpacha Magazine. Email Print Rav Yisrael Tzvi Weinberg, who passed away this past Succos, left behind the fulfillment of his father-in-law’s last hope: the continuance of a chassidus on the verge of oblivion W hen Rav Yisrael Tzvi Weinberg a young Torah scholar from Toronto married Gitel the only child of Montreal’s Tolna Rebbe Rav Yochanan Twersky ztz”l he never imagined he’d be the pivotal link in a chain going all the way back to the Maggid of Chernobyl whose eight sons spread chassidus all over Russia and the Ukraine. Father of the current Tolna Rebbe of Jerusalem Rav Yitzchak Menachem Weinberg shlita and grandfather of Tolna Ashdod Rebbe Rav Amitai Twersky shlita Rav Weinberg passed away last month at age 88. Yet he left behind the fulfillment of his illustrious father-in-law’s hope — the continuance of Tolna chassidus the rich heritage that was on the ve...

  Hands Across the Ocean: A Review of Rabbi Aharon Feldman’s The Eye of the Storm AHARON LICHTENSTEIN  All Credit goes to him and the jewish action.       The Eye of the Storm: A Calm View of Raging Issues By Rabbi Aharon Feldman Yad Yosef Publications Jerusalem, 2009 244 pages Few contemporary roshei yeshivah have been endowed with the capacity to write a volume such as The Eye of the Storm; and of the coterie that could, many, if not most, are probably disinclined to venture the undertaking. We are therefore somewhat beholden to Rabbi Aharon Feldman–a talmid chacham of repute and the head of Yeshivat Ner Israel of Baltimore, an illustrious Torah center that has contributed much to further the cause of serious learning and implementation of Torah in North America–for having mustered the ability and the determination to cope with the issues herein discussed. Moreover, he has articulated his positions with vigor tinged with passion, fusing personal conviction wit...