Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

  NO JEW LEFT BEHIND   By  | AUGUST 15, 2023 Email Print    For brothers Rabbi Manis Friedman and Avraham Fried, it’s always been about the message they imbibed growing up Photos: Itzik Roitman I t’s that time of year when we begin to re-examine our lives, taking stock of the past and hoping to move forward to a future using the talents and opportunities we’ve been gifted. For two of the Jewish world’s most famous brothers — Rabbi Menachem Manis Hakohein Friedman and Reb Avraham Shabsai Hakohein Friedman, a.k.a. Rabbi Manis Friedman and Avraham Fried — having an impact on hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world has meant harnessing those gifts, each in his own way. While one is a venerated  kiruv  personality and chassidic educator and the other a king of Jewish music for four decades, it’s all about the unswerving messages of mission with which they were imbued growing up. Although there are 13 years and a bit of a generation gap between t...

 By Eytan Kobre  | NOVEMBER 14, 2012 I n Yiddish  ah yohr mit ah yoiveil  connotes a very long period of time. But a literal  yoveil  — 50 years — is long enough in itself and this year on the second of Kislev it will indeed be the proverbial  yoveil shanim  since that giant of American Torah Jewry Rav Aharon Kotler  ztz”l  left the world. I’ve come to speak with Rav Yechiel Yitzchok Perr, a close talmid of the Rosh Yeshivah from Lakewood’s early days, who himself went on to teach countless talmidim at Yeshivah Derech Ayson, which he founded many decades ago in Far Rockaway, New York. Rav Perr arrived at the Lakewood yeshivah as a 21-year-old in 1956 and remained there for seven and a half years. During those years, its student body was comprised of only 70 to 80 bochurim, enabling him to take full advantage of the opportunity to draw close to the gadol hador. By the time Rav Aharon arrived on these shores in 1941, he had already ga...