Doing Teshuva. Memoir Literature Dealing With Mir Yeshiva. Shlomo Zaltzman's Memoir of Mir Yeshiva Pre-WW I. Essen Taig. R' Eliyahu Boruch Kamai, R' Avraham Tzvi Kamai and R' Eliezer Yehuda Finkel. R' Velvel Soloveitchik and His Students. - Dec 2, 2024 - The acts that should be done by someone who wants to do teshuvah: learning, charity, maybe growing a beard. Yeshivot Lita by Etkes & Tikochinski, p. 312 Shlomo Zaltzman's memoir. Why he picked Mir Yeshiva (MY) over Volozhin. Essen taig vs. a student dining hall in the yeshiva. The ways that essen taig was unpleasant and harmful. The Semichah exam in YU compared to in MY. Zaltzman's arrival in MY and the older student who took him in. This older student's unusual library with Haskala literature and more. Zaltzman moved to Tel Aviv. The books he wrote. The popularity of many -isms pre WW I as opposed to post WW I. R' Eliyahu Boruch Kamai, his son R' Avraham Tzvi and his son-in-law R' Eliezer Yehuda Finkel make MY great. Should a Rosh Yeshiva also be simultaneously the Rav of the city? R' Avraham Tzvi takes over MY and since he was also the Rav of the city does not go to Japan and is murdered. R' Finkle's policy of helping other yeshivot. He helped R' Velvel Soloveitchik in Brisk by sending him students and supporting them. R' Velvel's prominent students. R' Noach Borenstein. R' Yerucham Gorelick. Naming children in the Soloveitchik family. R' Rakeffet's birthday party.
View all episodes
