Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

  | TEXT MESSAGES | CHINUCH JOURNEYS  By  Eytan Kobre   | NOVEMBER 16, 2021 Email Print Abie, the brilliantly creative musical composer who became a mechanech in disguise, marvels at how Reb Shaya is still at it 40 years later, helping young Jews find their own individual melodies of meaning in Yiddishkeit.   T he external indicators of how a person looks and what he does don’t necessarily tell you very much about who and what he truly is. The trick is to look for the inner story threading itself through the outer layers of another person’s life. The topic is on my mind after a conversation with Reb Avrohom Yom Tov Rotenberg — sometimes known as Abie — who was in town recently for a “Musical Evening of Connection,” to benefit the chinuch and kiruv work of Rabbi Shaya Cohen, rosh yeshivah of Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh in Bayswater, New York. But it was also an evening of reconnection between Abie and Reb Shaya, his friend and long-ago mentor. Their paths fir...

  REASONS TO PARTY, MISHPACHA 7/6/22 Rabbi Yisroel Besser and the Mishpacha all credit goes to them. Published on July 7, 2022 Yisroel Besser Contributing Editor, Mishpacha Magazine. Author: Reb Shlomo, Reb Leizer, Reb Shayele, Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz,The Chasam Sofer, The Tosher Rebbe , Just Love Them, Nishmas, Arise and Sing, Building for Eternity + 74 articles  Following In the late nineties, when I was newly married and living in Yerushalayim, I would walk home from the Mir through the Arzei HaBira park. These were the headiest days of the Shas party, as upstart Sephardim shook off decades of oppression and inequity, and their political party won too many seats and too much power for anyone to ignore it. One night during election season, there was a Shas rally in that park, and the vibe and atmosphere was like nothing I had ever seen, pounding music and leaping bodies and full-throated cheers and a hysterical frenzy as Maran — Chacham Ovadiah Yosef — approached. Whe...

 Photo credit goes to Hamodia and Matzav Info credit goes to hyomi.org.il/ A Short Tribute Hacham Yom Tov Yedid Halevy was born in 1923 in Aram Tzova, now called Aleppo. He was Hacham Moshe Tawil's student and when, in 1959, his teacher immigrated to Israel, Hacham Yom Tov Yedid Halevy was appointed Rabbi of Aleppo and Head of the Beit HaNassi  Beit Midrash . He led the community for many years and helped preserve it, often through difficult times. Known for his stringency, he was nonetheless accepted and loved by his community. As Head of the Beit HaNassi study house, he trained the last generation of its Torah scholars, some of whom lead the Jewish communities from Aleppo throughout the world to this day. In 1985 Hacham Yom Tov Yedid Halevy moved to New York City and joined its community of Syrian Jews. He refused to take on any public position and devoted himself to Torah study in the Ahiezer  Beit Midrash . Hacham Yom Tov Yedid Halevy passed away on 22 Tammuz 5776 (20...