BY THE WARMTH OF THE SUN
| MAGAZINE FEATURE | By Rabbi Menachem Nissel | DECEMBER 19, 2023 Seven years later, Rav Moshe Shapira's teachings still light the way Photos: Mattis Goldberg, Rabbi Aubrey Hersch, Family archives Rav Moshe Shapira never let the world around him color his clarity. His warm heart and all-encompassing knowledge in both the revealed and hidden Torah, brought him to unique heights, taking his talmidim along and opening vistas for them, too. In Looking into the Sun, by longtime talmid Rabbi Menachem Nissel, Rav Moshe — who passed away seven years ago on 10 Teves — comes alive again for students old and even new I was a young yeshivah bochur from England when I approached Rav Moshe Shapira for the first time. It was 1981 and he had just joined the faculty of Yeshivas Mishkan HaTorah on 41 Rechov Sorotzkin. The yeshivah had previously broken off from Yeshivas ITRI (playfully called “Splitri”), and br...