Venue: YU Israel YU Israel

History:

19th Century CE 

Collections: R' Rakeffet Jewish History Fall 2024

Description

Netanel Hershkovitz. Living outside Israel. Writing history accurately vs. storytelling: R' J.J. Schacter, R' Shimon Schwab, My Uncle the Netziv, ArtScroll, & the Chumash where faults are in fact described. History prepares us for life. The improvement in teaching children Torah in America from the dismal level of the 1870s, to Eitz Chaim in 1886. R' Moshe Matlin's son & his friends. R' Revel & the beginning of what became YU. Need for a superior Rosh Yeshivah. R' Shlomo Polachek—Meitscheter Illui (MI) by Dovi Safier. The MI is accepted to Volozhin age 12. How he so impressed R' Chaim Brisker. MI's Bar Mitzvah in Volozhin. R' Meltzer. MI moves to Lida. MI is supportive of Mizrahi. His relationship to his teacher R' Aaron Rabinowitz, son-in-law of R' Reines. Tachkemoni schools in Poland. MI to Bialystok. R' Revel brings MI to RIETS. How MI was so adored by all, especially his students. His goals that he did not accomplish. His knowledge of the world. Baseball. His untimely death. R' Shimon Shkop. R' Moshe Soloveichik & family, R' Shlomo Heiman, R' Kotler, R' Ruderman, 1/2 of Mir Yeshiva all move to the US. MI's children. Description of actual & potential successors to Dr. Belkin.