Yeshiva Torah Vodaas (or Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath or Yeshiva Torah Vodaath or Torah Vodaath Rabbinical Seminary ) is a yeshiva in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Harry Herskowitz School, groundbreaking in Sept 1962 and occupied in May 1967, home to the Torah Vodaas Mesivta
The yeshiva was conceived in 1917 and formally opened in 1918, by friends Binyomin Wilhelm and Louis Dershowitz, to provide a yeshiva education centering on traditional Jewish sacred texts to the children of families then moving from the Lower East Side to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. From the diary of Binyomin Wilhelm (as cited by his great-grandson, Rabbi Zvi Belsky), Louis Dershowitz is credited, not only with giving early financial and moral support for the founding of the yeshiva, but for the very idea of establishing a yeshiva in Williamsburg. The two friends contacted prominent local Rabbi Zev Gold of Congregation Beth Jacob Anshe Sholom[1][2] and together they formed a board and established the yeshiva on Keap Street in Williamsburg as an elementary school. The yeshiva later moved to a new building at 206 Wilson Street and remained there until 1967, (The elementary school remained at 206 Wilson St. Until 1974) when it moved to its current location at 452 and 425 East 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11218. Gold was elected as the Yeshiva's first president and suggested the name of the school (which in its English rendering is, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath), after the yeshiva founded in Lida in 1905 by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines, which combined secular studies with Jewish studies and traditional Talmud study.[3] During this first period in the yeshiva's history, the yeshiva was modeled after those in Europe, with religious studies in Yiddish and Talmud taught in the Hungarian style of the European yeshivas.[4]
The founding members of the yeshiva soon offered the principalship of the institution to Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, who headed the yeshiva from 1922 to 1948. Under Mendlowitz's leadership, a mesivta (yeshiva high school) was opened in 1926.[5]: 76 Later he opened a yeshiva gedola as well. Rabbi Dovid Leibovitz, a notable torah scholar from Europe was brought in to head the yeshiva's beit midrash (study hall) in 1929 but left after only four years to start his own yeshiva (Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim) after personal conflicts with Mendlowitz. Two years later, in 1935, Rabbi Shlomo Heiman became rosh yeshiva (head of the yeshiva), a position he held until his death in 1944.[6]
The yeshiva has since expanded to include a beit midrash in Monsey, an elementary school division in nearby Marine Park, and two summer camps all serving a student body, from nursery to postgraduate kollel, that numbers nearly 2,000 students.[8]
Philosophy
"Torah im Derech Eretz" historically influenced the yeshiva's philosophy,[9] but today it is strongly influenced by the Haredi philosophy. However, Torah Vodaath is one of the many major haredi yeshivas that allow its students to attend college while studying at the yeshiva. The great majority of the yeshiva's graduates go on to work in fields that are not related to the Torah education that they received in yeshiva.[10] The Yeshiva was founded on a chassidic flavor that is everlasting. The Yeshiva also does not say Tachnun on Yud Tes Kislev, a major Chassidic holiday. </ref> מנהגי ישיבה תורה ודעת יו"ל ע"י ישיבה ומתיבתא תורה ודעת שנת תשע"ח </ref>
^Helmreich, William B. (2000). The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 26. ISBN9780881256420.
^Jonathan Rosenblum (2001). Reb Shraga Feivel: The Life and Times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz. ISBN978-1578197972.
^Helmreich, William B. (2000). The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. pp. 27–28. ISBN9780881256420.
^Mendlowitz, Paul (2009-08-27). "Unorthodox-Jew A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism: The Battles That Brought Down Yeshiva Torah Vodaath - The Mother Of American Yeshivas. Part One". Unorthodox-Jew A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
^Tannenbaum, Rabbi Gershon. "My Machberes". The Jewish Press. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
^. Archived from the original on November 23, 2005.
^Helmreich, William B. (2000). The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 268. ISBN9780881256420.
^"Rav Yitzchok Lichtenstein Inaugurated as Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath". 21 October 2018.
^"Rav Yitzchok Lichtenstein Installed as Rov of Kehillas Bais Avrohom | Matzav.com".
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Yeshiva Torah Vodaas or Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath or Yeshiva Torah Vodaath or Torah Vodaath Rabbinical Seminary is a yeshiva in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn New York Harry Herskowitz School groundbreaking in Sept 1962 and occupied in May 1967 home to the Torah Vodaas Mesivta Contents 1 History 2 Philosophy 3 Roshei Yeshiva 4 Notable alumni 5 References 6 External linksHistory EditThe yeshiva was conceived in 1917 and formally opened in 1918 by friends Binyomin Wilhelm and Louis Dershowitz to provide a yeshiva education centering on traditional Jewish sacred texts to the children of families then moving from the Lower East Side to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn From the diary of Binyomin Wilhelm as cited by his great grandson Rabbi Zvi Belsky Louis Dershowitz is credited not only with giving early financial and moral support for the founding of the yeshiva but for the very idea of establishing a yeshiva in Williamsburg The two friends contacted prominent local Rabbi Zev Gold of Congregation Beth Jacob Anshe Sholom 1 2 and together they formed a board and established the yeshiva on Keap Street in Williamsburg as an elementary school The yeshiva later moved to a new building at 206 Wilson Street and remained there until 1967 The elementary school remained at 206 Wilson St Until 1974 when it moved to its current location at 452 and 425 East 9th Street Brooklyn NY 11218 Gold was elected as the Yeshiva s first president and suggested the name of the school which in its English rendering is Yeshiva Torah Vodaath after the yeshiva founded in Lida in 1905 by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines which combined secular studies with Jewish studies and traditional Talmud study 3 During this first period in the yeshiva s history the yeshiva was modeled after those in Europe with religious studies in Yiddish and Talmud taught in the Hungarian style of the European yeshivas 4 The founding members of the yeshiva soon offered the principalship of the institution to Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz who headed the yeshiva from 1922 to 1948 Under Mendlowitz s leadership a mesivta yeshiva high school was opened in 1926 5 76 Later he opened a yeshiva gedola as well Rabbi Dovid Leibovitz a notable torah scholar from Europe was brought in to head the yeshiva s beit midrash study hall in 1929 but left after only four years to start his own yeshiva Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim after personal conflicts with Mendlowitz Two years later in 1935 Rabbi Shlomo Heiman became rosh yeshiva head of the yeshiva a position he held until his death in 1944 6 When Mendlowitz died in 1948 he entrusted the yeshiva to Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky and Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky as roshei yeshiva Rabbi Alexander Linchner as the financial head and secular studies principal Rabbi Gedalia Schorr as menahel of the yeshiva and Rabbi Nesanel Quinn as the principal of the high school 7 The yeshiva has since expanded to include a beit midrash in Monsey an elementary school division in nearby Marine Park and two summer camps all serving a student body from nursery to postgraduate kollel that numbers nearly 2 000 students 8 Philosophy Edit Torah im Derech Eretz historically influenced the yeshiva s philosophy 9 but today it is strongly influenced by the Haredi philosophy However Torah Vodaath is one of the many major haredi yeshivas that allow its students to attend college while studying at the yeshiva The great majority of the yeshiva s graduates go on to work in fields that are not related to the Torah education that they received in yeshiva 10 The Yeshiva was founded on a chassidic flavor that is everlasting The Yeshiva also does not say Tachnun on Yud Tes Kislev a major Chassidic holiday lt ref gt מנהגי ישיבה תורה ודעת יו ל ע י ישיבה ומתיבתא תורה ודעת שנת תשע ח lt ref gt Roshei Yeshiva EditThe current three roshei yeshiva are the following Rabbi Yisroel Reisman Rabbi Yosef Savitsky and Rabbi Yitzchok Lichtenstein 11 Lichtenstein is a student of Rabbi Meshulum Dovid Soloveitchik son of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein grandson of Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik and rabbi of Kehillas Bais Avrohom in Monsey NY 12 Savitsky 13 is a student of Rabbi Berel Soloveitchik and Rabbi Aharon Kotler Reisman 13 is rabbi of Agudath Israel of Madison and author of several books including The Laws Of Ribbis and Pathways of the Prophets The previous roshei yeshiva include Rabbis Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz Yisroel Belsky Avraham Yaakov Pam Shlomo Heiman Dovid Leibowitz Yaakov Kamenetsky Shachne Zohn Zelik Epstein Gedalia Schorr Elya Chazan Reuvain Fein Simcha Sheps Moshe Rosen Nezer HaKodesh and Reuvain Grozovsky 14 Notable alumni EditMilton Balkany Republican political activist and fundraiser Professor Joseph M Baumgarten Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Rabbi Saul Berman American scholar and Modern Orthodox rabbi Rabbi Professor Benjamin Blech Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University Rabbi J David Bleich Rosh Yeshiva in Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach composer singer spiritual leader pioneer of the Baal teshuva movement Noach Dear 1953 2020 New York Supreme Court Judge Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz Conservative rabbi David G Greenfield politician and Chair of New York City Council s Land Use Committee from 2013 2017 Rabbi Moshe Heinemann Rabbinical Supervisor Star K and Rav of Agudas Yisroel of Baltimore Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz the Bostoner Rebbe Rabbi Yakov Horowitz educator and child safety advocate Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky citation needed Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan rabbi Jewish thinker and author of over 40 works Rabbi Sholom Klass rabbi publisher of The Jewish Press Professor David Kranzler historian of Rescue by Jews during the Holocaust Rabbi Dr Norman Lamm rabbi chancellor of Yeshiva University Rabbi Bernard Levy rabbi head of OK Labs Rabbi Yerucham Olshin a Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha Lakewood New Jersey Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Pam later Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva see above Rabbi Nesanel Quinn later Menahel of the Yeshiva Rabbi Yisroel Reisman today Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva and Rabbi of Agudath Yisroel of Madison Rabbi Sholom Rivkin chief rabbi of St Louis Missouri Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld Polish American rabbi and educator associated with the Breslov Hasidic movement Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner Rosh Yeshiva of the Kamenitz yeshiva of Jerusalem Ben Zion Shenker renowned Hasidic composer and hazzan Rabbi Nosson Scherman rabbi owner and general editor of Artscroll Rabbi Gedalia Schorr later Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva see above Gene Simmons Chaim Witz aka The Demon co founder of the rock band KISS Rabbi Elya Svei Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel Rabbi Dr Ephraim Wolf recruited for the Yeshiva founding Rabbi of the Great Neck Synagogue and the North Shore Hebrew AcademyReferences Edit Bunim Amos 1989 A Fire in His Soul Irving M Bunim 1908 1980 Feldheim Publishers p 250 ISBN 0 87306 473 9 Sherman Moshe D 1996 Orthodox Judaism in America A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook Greenwood Press p 78 ISBN 0 313 24316 6 Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines PDF Helmreich William B 2000 The World of the Yeshiva An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry KTAV Publishing House Inc p 26 ISBN 9780881256420 Jonathan Rosenblum 2001 Reb Shraga Feivel The Life and Times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz ISBN 978 1578197972 Helmreich William B 2000 The World of the Yeshiva An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry KTAV Publishing House Inc pp 27 28 ISBN 9780881256420 Mendlowitz Paul 2009 08 27 Unorthodox Jew A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism The Battles That Brought Down Yeshiva Torah Vodaath The Mother Of American Yeshivas Part One Unorthodox Jew A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism Retrieved 2016 01 24 Tannenbaum Rabbi Gershon My Machberes The Jewish Press Retrieved 2016 01 24 Ben Zion Weberman 1896 1968 Life and Legacy of an Orthodox Jewish Attorney in New York City During the Interwar Period and Beyond Moshe Rapaport University of Hawaii Archived from the original on November 23 2005 Helmreich William B 2000 The World of the Yeshiva An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry KTAV Publishing House Inc p 268 ISBN 9780881256420 Rav Yitzchok Lichtenstein Inaugurated as Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath 21 October 2018 Rav Yitzchok Lichtenstein Installed as Rov of Kehillas Bais Avrohom Matzav com a b News At Yeshiva Torah Vodaath Matzav com Tannenbaum Rabbi Gershon My Machberes The Jewish Press Retrieved 2016 02 07 External links EditOfficial website Coordinates 40 38 17 56 N 73 58 9 54 W 40 6382111 N 73 9693167 W 40 6382111 73 9693167 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yeshiva Torah Vodaas amp oldid 1129578965, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
