Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

  | MAGAZINE FEATURE | MISSION ABROAD By  Rabbi Yosef Shaul Hoizman   | JUNE 20, 2023 Email Print Enduring encounters from Rav Dov Landau’s chizuk mission Photos: Mattis Goldberg, Naftoli Goldgrab, AEGedolim, YH IN Slabodka and beyond, everyone knows that for 93-year-old Rosh Yeshivah Rav Dov Landau, there’s no time for public appearances, meetings, or events. Even  talmidim  in search of advice, and visitors and  askanim  hoping for a brachah, know they’ll have to catch the Rosh Yeshivah between his many daily  chavrusas . That’s why it was an unusual — and joyous — surprise that the Rosh Yeshivah agreed to travel to the US for a week of  chizuk  and to attend the massive Adirei HaTorah event at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia earlier this month. (It was actually his second  chizuk  trip — the first was in October of 2021, the first time he’d been out of Eretz Yisrael since arriving with his family from Poland as a sev...

  admin June 14, 2023 all credit goes to the Author and to the Yated By Rabbi Noach Shapiro “In the  zechus  of your  emunas tzaddikim , you will have a  yeshuah .” This was the promise that the Skolya Rebbe gave to his nephew, Rav Shmelke Leifer, the Chuster Rebbe, after years of not being able to have children. But the Chuster Rebbe was a man of unshakable, wholesome faith. Faith in  Hakadosh Boruch Hu  that He would provide a  yeshuah . Faith in  tzaddikim  as conduits of that  yeshuah . And faith in every individual he encountered, no matter how simple they appeared. He carried this faith in his heart and wore it on his sleeve for others to be impacted by. The Chuster Rebbe’s life was a testament to the impact that wholesome faith can have on the world. Faith in  tzaddikim  was instilled in him from the womb, as his birth was the product of such faith.  In 1944, the Belzer Rebbe was in Budapest. The Chuster Rebbe’...

  The Bostoner Rebbe of Flatbush Zt"l By Anash.org reporter All credit goes to  Anash.org Harav  Pinchas Dovid Horowitz , the Bostoner Rebbe of Flatbush, who grew up in Crown Heights, established his court in Flatbush and created a chassidishe outpost in Tannersville, passed away. He was 78 years old. Born to Harav  Moshe Horowitz , the young Pinchas Dovid was raised in Crown Heights, which at the time was home to a number of Chassidic courts. He was named after his grandfather, a scion of Nikolsberg who founded Boston Chassidus in 1915. He later recounted his memories of his time growing up near the headquarters of Chabad Lubavitch and the Rebbe’s home. “My father, the  Bostoner Rebbe  [Reb  Moshe ]  ztz”l , purchased a building on President Street to establish a  yeshiva , and was waiting for zoning. Shortly thereafter, a neighboring house was bought for the Lubavitcher Rebbe. “When some Lubavitcher chassidim heard of my father’s ...

  | MAGAZINE FEATURE | RESTORING A FORGOTTEN CROWN  By  Yehuda Geberer   | MAY 23, 2023 Email Print Two young talmidei chachamim have made it their mission to redeem the Torah of the great German rabbanim by republishing seforim long thought lost Photos:  Elchanan Kotler “S o this is a research institute?” I call out above the din in the bustling beis medrash. This is my first question for Rabbis Eliyahu Simcha Hellmann and Avraham Bamberger on this sunny day in Jerusalem. It’s a challenge to hear their answer, and the background noise makes me realize how silly the question is. Nowadays there are likely hundreds of kollels in the Holy City — but only one Kollel Achsanya shel Torah, nicknamed “Kollel Ashkenaz.” This pioneering venture is bringing a largely forgotten past to life, and the  yungeleit  show palpable excitement when they can shed new light from an old source on a familiar  sugya . It is axiomatic that the lands of Ashkenaz —...