History of Eastern European Yeshivot - Mir - December 23 - Dec 23, 2024 -

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Responsa - December 15 - Dec 15, 2024 -

History of Eastern European Yeshivot - Mir - December 9 - Dec 9, 2024 -

R' Menashe Klein Mishneh Halachot 9:409-412: Attending Mixed Marriage Wedding. Saving Someone from Sh'mad on Shabbat. Teshuvat Hamishkal. Second Day Yom Tov Questions for a Foreign Student in Israel. A Safek Jew. Circumcision. R' Abba Bronspiegel. - Dec 8, 2024 - 306:14: Melachot permissible on Shabbat to save a kidnapped girl. R' Yitzchak Blazer's gittin in churches. Hillel was saved on Shabbat. The Rebellion of the Daughters by Rachel Manekin. Young women ran away for higher education & even converted. Bais Yaakov (BY) helped solve this problem. Gerrer Rebbe, Belzer Rebbe, & BY. Chafetz Chaim permits melachot to save from sh'mad. MH: You will not influence the couple at wedding but later on you may. R' Rakeffet: Keep connection open. MH 9:410: Ba'al Teshuva's repentance for grievous sins. Herman Wouk. Teshuvat Hamishkal not relevant today. MH 9:411: Foreign student in Israel states he is staying. If he goes back to galut he keeps 2nd day. What he said is not crucial. What he does is. Visitors to Israel on 2nd day Yom Tov. Staten Island. 9:412: May you teach Torah to a safek Jew? Teaching Torah to gentiles. MH: If the safek Jew is circumcised, it's permissible. But circumcision now is prevalent among gentiles. MH: If someone says I am gentile: Do not teach them. Stories about R' Abba Bronspiegel & his wife.

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.

R’ Menashe Klein in Mishneh Halachot 9:406–409: Various Issues in Providing Initial Guidance to a Baal Teshuvah. What May or Should Be Done to Dissuade a Sibling from Marrying a Gentile. What Was Permitted to Be Done for Soviet Jewry. - Dec 1, 2024 - Charedim in IDF. R' Nahum Rabinovitch & the problem student. Dr. Yaakov Tendler, R' Mordechai Tendler, & R' Moshe. Mishneh Halachot (MH) 9:406: Baal Teshuvah (BT) wants to return to college. R' Elazar Spira of Munkatch: German Jews successfully attending university is no proof for us. Hostility to Agudah. Machon Meir's view is don't run away from your life. Torah observance in Israeli universities is much better now. R' Menashe is against return to college. MH 9:407: Initial guidance for a BT. Noda Biyhudah on תשובת המשקל. Suffering pain as repentance for previous forbidden enjoyments is not effective today. Torah learning is. Sighet Rebbe advises BT in Vienna to grow a beard. BT refuses. Guidance to BT depends on his background. Yiddishkeit requires looking in both directions. MH 9:408: Everything at once for BT or slowly? YU vs. Touro. Shabbat is hard for BT. MH on how BT should daven. Rami Levi's daughter. Provide a family to the BT. Be gracious. MH 9:409: How far should brother go to prevent sibling marrying a gentile? Maplewood: Kohen to marry a convert. What is permitted to save someone's spiritual life? What was permitted to be done for Soviet Jews under Aryeh Kroll.

The Move of Mir Yeshiva to Kobe, Japan and Then to Shanghai. Why and How the Japanese Treated Mir Yeshiva More or Less Nicely. Why Memoir Literature Did Not Exist before the 1800s. - Nov 25, 2024 - Rules on the Charedi Army base. How & why Japanese were friendly to Mir Yeshiva (MY). Jacob Schiff & the Japanese loan. How homes in Moscow were heated. How money was raised in the US to pay for transportation of MY from Vilna to Vladivostok. Irving Bunim's Shabbat taxi ride. Jewish community in Kobe before MY. Method of transfer of money from NY to USSR government. Matzah & wine sent to Kobe. Additional reasons the Japanese admired the MY community. Move to Shanghai. R' Meir Ashkenazi in Shanghai. Yosef Tungenhaft. R' Shneur Kotler's fiancée in Shanghai. The Shanghai synagogue. Why R' Finkel did not join Agudah & similarly R' Yaakov-Moshe Lessin & R' Dovid Lifshitz. Pearl Harbor. Publishing Torah books in Shanghai. Forced movement of the Jews in Shanghai into a slum-ghetto. Bodies of Chinese lying on the street. Theological lesson from both the 1924 visit of the 3 rabbis to the US & the dead bodies in Shanghai. WW II ends. R' Finkel in Palestine. R' Avraham Kalmanowitz in NY saved MY. Henry Morgenthau. Miracle after miracle. Explanation of the role of memoir literature & why it did not exist pre-1800s. Yeshivot Lita by Immanuel Etkes & Shlomo Tikochinski. Jay Shapiro. Silver Era.

R’ Menashe Klein in Mishneh Halachot. Bat Nidah. When Should We Not Mekarev Someone? Limited Resources Should Not Be Totally Taken Away from Frum from Birth Jews for Kiruv Purposes. Attending University. Becoming Frum but Only after Pesach. - Nov 24, 2024 - Charedim in Army. Understanding Bat Nidah. R' Moshe Feinstein. Mikvah shows family dedication. Chazon Ish: Daughters of 2 mothers who didn’t cover hair. Implication of kallah's personality. When & where you live is relevant. Mishneh Halachot 13:168: Disclosing a פגם. Emotional end of Teshuvah. M.H. 9:405: When should we NOT mekarev someone? Hillel vs. Shamai. Maharsha. Hillel is correct. R' Yitzchak Elchanan giving Semichah to rabbis moving to US. Fifth section of Shulchan Aruch. Shabbat is much more than 1 day of freedom from cellphones. R' Menashe: Use common sense & intuition with קירוב. Crucial to let them start learning. Torah study is so unique to Judaism. R' Y.Y. Weinberg positive view on gentiles attending Torah lectures. R' Menashe: Pushing someone away resulted in Jesus & Amalek. BMT student who lit fire on Shabbat. Example of Chabad Shaluach not interested in frum Jews. R' Menashe: Don't help Ba'alei Teshuvah at expense of Jews devoted from birth to Torah. Outreach in Maplewood. M.H. 9:406: Ba'al Teshuvah wants to spend 2 more years in university. R' Menashe: No vs. R' Kotler: Yes. Couple will become frum but after Pesach. Couple will become frum but after Yamim Noraim.