A PUBLICATION OF THE RABBINIC ALUMNI OF THE RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY • AN AFFILIATE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY CHAVRUSA Volume 49 • Number 1 אין התורה נקנית אלא בחבורה (ברכות סג:) September 2014 • Elul 5774

Remembering Preparing for Shemittah: Rabbi Gershon An Interview with Rabbi Yankelewitz zt”l Shalom Rosner Page 4 Page 15 In This Issue

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Page 3 In Pictures Richard M. Joel Mediation Training for Rabbis, Shavuos with Yeshiva, PRESIDENT, RIETS June Zman Siyum, RIETS Kennes Petichah

Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm ROSH HAYESHIVA EMERITUS, RIETS

Joel M. Schrieber CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, RIETS Page 4 News Remembering Rabbi Yankelewitz zt”l, Rabbi Moshe D. Tendler ‘48R Receives Honorary Degree from Bar Rabbi Menachem Penner Ilan, Bringing Torah to the Masses, Mussar Initiative at MAX AND MARION GRILL DEAN, RIETS AND UNDERGRADUATE TORAH STUDIES Yeshiva, Rabbi Lau at YU, Conflict Resolution Workshop for Rabbis, and Rabbi Mostofsky ‘03R Joins CRC Rabbi Kenneth Brander VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY LIFE Page 10 Divrei Chizuk Rabbi Zevulun Charlop DEAN EMERITUS, RIETS Recognizing our Kochos SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT ON YESHIVA AFFAIRS Rabbi Moshe Weinberger ‘83R

Rabbi Robert S. Hirt Divrei Chizuk VICE PRESIDENT EMERITUS, RIETS Page 13 Transforming our Communities Rabbi Yaakov Glasser Rabbi Yaakov Glasser ‘01R DAVID MITZNER DEAN, CENTER FOR THE JEWISH FUTURE AND UNIVERSITY LIFE

Rabbi Chaim Bronstein ADMINISTRATOR, RIETS Page 15 Special Feature Rabbi Adam Berner • Rabbi Binyamin Blau Preparing for Shemittah An Interview with Rabbi Shalom Rosner ‘97R Rabbi Kenneth Hain • Rabbi Elazar Muskin Rabbi Moshe Neiss • Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Rybak Rabbi Shmuel Silber • Rabbi Perry Tirschwell Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach • Rabbi Howard Zack Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler YESHIVA UNIVERSITY RABBINIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE Page 19 Divrei Hesped In Appreciation of HaGaon Rav Gershon Yankelewitz zt”l Rabbi Elchanan Adler ‘90R CHAVRUSA A PUBLICATION OF RIETS RABBINIC ALUMNI

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Shavuot with Yeshiva • RIETS Annual Yarchei Kallah June 3-5, 2014

June Zman Siyum on Masechet Shabbat June 11, 2014

RIETS Kennes Petichah August 25, 2014

3 CHAVRUSA • ELUL 5774 News Remembering Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Gershon Yankelewitz zt”l The Yeshiva is saddened by the loss of Rabbi Gershon Yankelewitz zt”l, who passed away on August 19. Rabbi Yankelewitz taught a daily Gemara shiur at the advanced age of 104. “Rabbi Yankelewitz by his nature and learning so represented both our history and our destiny,” said RIETS President Richard M. Joel. “For over half a century he taught his students how to learn and how to live. We will always remember him.” Born in Lubcza, Poland in 1909, Rabbi Yankelewitz studied in the Radin Yeshiva until the death of its founder, the Chofetz Chaim. Rabbi Yankelewitz then continued his studies at the legendary Mir Yeshiva in Russia, before being forced to flee from the Nazis at the start of World War II. The entire yeshiva relocated to Kobe, Japan before eventually settling in Shanghai, China, where they remained until 1947. Rabbi Yankelewitz joined Yeshiva University in 1958 and gave a daily shiur at RIETS for semicha and college students for more than five decades. “Rabbi Yankelewitz was an extraordinary person,” said Rabbi Zevulun Charlop ‘54R, Dean Emeritus of RIETS. ”He was a man of God and a man of principle, who brought with him the Torah learning from the great European yeshivas. His students were devoted to him and he was dedicated to them.” “As someone who was fortunate enough to be a talmid in his shiur, I saw what type of tzadik he was up close,” said Rabbi Chaim Bronstein ‘72R, RIETS administrator. ”It was a great privilege to have known him all these years.” “It is so far beyond impossible to capture who the niftar was, not just because of the longevity of the niftar or the many worlds that he lived in, but simply because of who he was,” said Rabbi Menachem Penner ‘95R, Max and Marion Grill Dean of RIETS, addressing a crowd of hundreds at the August 20 levaya held in Yeshiva University’s Glueck Beit Midrash. “It’s easy to focus today on the arichas yamim of the niftar, to say that what was so special about him was that he had such unbelievable arichas yamim and was still teaching at Yeshiva. But the hespedim give us a sense of not just how many years he was blessed to teach, but mostly just how he taught and learned.” Rabbi Yankelewitz’s wife, Bluma, passed away in 2010. He is survived by his sons, all of whom serve the Jewish community: Dovid, Yaakov, Yoel and Moshe; and his daughters, Devorah Fromowitz, Gity Lipsius and Perl Gross, and their spouses and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. n

Rabbi Tendler Receives Honorary Degree from Bar-Ilan

Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe David Tendler ‘48R, the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and professor of biology at Yeshiva College, received an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University at its 59th annual meeting of the Board of Trustees. Rabbi Tendler also headlined the 41st Nitzotzot Conference of Bar-Ilan’s Ludwig and Erica Jesselson Institute for Advanced Torah Studies on Sunday, May 18, with a discourse on “Value Judgments in Bioethics: Halachic and General,” a summary of his life’s work. The Nitzotzot Conference explores the ways in which Jewish law affect bioethics, and the halachic questions that emerge from practicing medicine in Israel. A world-renowned posek and scholar, Rabbi Tendler was ordained at RIETS in 1948, and earned a PhD in biology from Columbia University in 1957. Rabbi Tendler has written and lectured widely on medical ethics and is known as an expert on the relationship between Jewish medical ethics and halacha. n

4 CHAVRUSA • ELUL 5774 News Bringing Torah to The Masses From Tape Cassettes to Mobile Apps: How YUTorah Grew into the Leading Site for Online Torah Study

It started with one semicha student. While studying at RIETS, Rabbi Marc Spivak ‘98R was training for a career as a pulpit rabbi outside the tristate area—but he didn’t want to miss out on the advanced learning and shiurim he loved at Yeshiva. He began taping shiur after shiur, building a collection of Torah lectures he’d be able to listen to anywhere, anytime. When his apartment could no longer hold the sheer volume of tapes he’d created, he tried digital storage, learning how to encode the shiurim and burn them to CDs. Eventually, with help from fellow student Chaim Jaskoll and others still exploring the Internet’s fledgling potential, Rabbi Spivak turned to the emerging world of online media, uploading all the shiurim he had The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah.org Today recorded to a single website where they Robert Shur ‘05R, director of YUTorah. can’t be filmed according to Jewish law. Or would remain accessible, for free, to any “We started out limited to just shiurim the Reconstructionist rabbi who reached Jew, anywhere in the world, who wanted to that were happening at YU and RIETS, out to Lebowitz after Hurricane Sandy to broaden their Torah horizons. just to give people access to the rabbeim ask how his congregation was doing. Or That turned out to be just the they had learned from as students. Then Rabbi Greg Wall, of Westport, CT. beginning. The site was an instant we made a decision to expand it to become “As a returnee to active Judaism as an hit. Rabbi Spivak joined what would more of a forum for the Torah happening adult, it became painfully obvious that my eventually become known as YU’s Center throughout Yeshiva University and the YU lack of a traditional yeshiva education was for the Jewish Future to embark on an even community, a one-stop shop for high- keeping me from getting the most out of more ambitious project: recording and quality Torah content from a whole range my Jewish observance,” said Rabbi Wall. uploading shiurim Yeshiva-wide. Excited of speakers and topics. Today, all kinds He attended local classes and lectures donors contributed recording equipment of Jews from nearly every country on the and began studying for semicha, but and initial server space, while students and planet come to YUTorah to learn—you felt something was missing—until he faculty added a growing number of shiurim don’t get a broader audience than that.” stumbled upon the website. “YUTorah to the site daily. Before long, the site had Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz ‘06R, host of provided the opportunity to get a expanded beyond YU’s borders, receiving the site’s extremely popular “Ten Minute complete overview of the masechtot I was submissions and listenership from Torah Halacha” series as well as a Daf Yomi learning, as well as go into greater depth figures and institutions around the world. series, can attest to that. “The most eye- than I would have been otherwise able. Today, that website is known opening thing for me has been YUTorah’s It gave me the next best thing to a YU as YUTorah, and with over 90,000 incredible reach,” he said. There’s the education.” shiurim—and counting—is the leading listener from Phoenix, AZ, who sends These are the sort of stories Rabbi site for online Torah study. In 2014 alone, fresh-picked oranges to Lebowitz’s shul Lebowitz hears wherever he travels, YUTorah received more than four million in North Woodmere, NY, to help him get everywhere from London to Palo Alto, page-views from 185 countries worldwide through the cold Northeastern winter. Or CA. Rabbi Lebowitz uses the site himself and thousands of downloads of its mobile the Hollywood director who requested a in his own research and preparation for apps for Android and iPhone. 10-minute halacha shiur on what can and his own lectures. “There is literally no “It’s grown exponentially,” said Rabbi 5 CHAVRUSA • ELUL 5774 News

topic that isn’t accounted for, generally in a very professional and thorough way, on YUTorah,” he said. “It is the gold standard of Torah on the Internet.” Dr. David Arbesfeld got involved with YUTorah more than 10 years ago at the SOY Seforim Sale when he discovered Rabbi Spivak’s CDs of lectures by Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Hershel Schachter ‘67R, Marcos and Adina Katz Rosh Kollel and Nathan and Vivian Fink Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud. After learning about the project, Dr. Arbesfeld was eager to help out, offering to donate all the recording equipment that was needed. “It’s a big The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah.org in 2004 mitzvah to be marbitz Torah b’rabim, and journals and scholarly articles that are Mr. Katz, who has served on the Board if there’s something you can do to make it now available on the site. “I enjoy the of Trustees of Yeshiva University since so people won’t have to pay, many more easy access to YU scholarship, especially 1979, received the Eitz Chaim Award, will be able to listen,” said Dr. Arbesfeld. the historical issues of Beis Yitzchak,” he the highest honor bestowed by RIETS, “YU has such great Roshei Yeshiva and said. at the 2006 Chag HaSemicha. He and shiurim to offer—some of the lectures The addition of other historical Mrs. Katz are benefactors of Yeshiva we’ve put up have gotten over 2,000 hits. material, such as uploads of recorded University, and the Marcos and Adina For me personally, I love being able to shiurim that were given in YU over Katz Kollel is dedicated in honor of them. listen to lectures from someone like Rav the past 50 years, has also created new Their leadership and vision for Jewish Schachter anytime, anywhere, no matter learning opportunities for students, learning has revolutionized the way that where he is in the world.” distinguished Torah scholars and even, Torah is studied in our institutions and For Rabbi Gil Student ‘94YC, in some cases, the original lecturers communities today. publisher and editor-in-chief of themselves. “People can ask me questions Additionally, YUTorah users can TorahMusings.com, YUTorah is “my now about shiurim I gave in 1994!” said dedicate days, weeks, or months of trip back to yeshiva.” Rabbi Student Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff ‘61R, learning in memory of a loved one or to discovered the site soon after it launched professor of rabbinic literature at YU’s mark a special occasion. In 2014, 219 and has been incorporating it into his Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute days were sponsored. writing ever since. in Jerusalem and one of YUTorah’s most “Since YUTorah’s inception, we “I listen to shiurim mainly during popular speakers. have convened the academic talent my commute and reconnect to my More than 1,000 shiurim of Rabbi of our Roshei Yeshiva, our academic rebbeim—just hearing their voices makes Rakeffet’s have been posted on the site community, and our alumni to create a difference and takes me back in time,” in categories that range from Jewish one of the most robust Torah sites in he said. “At first, I would listen mostly to law to Zionism and Jewish thought to the Jewish world,” said Rabbi Kenneth Rav Hershel Schachter’s parsha shiurim; reflections on Torah personalities. Rabbi Brander ‘86R, Vice President for I always had something to say on the Rakeffet sets aside two hours each day to University and Community Life at YU. parsha and I would also get his opinion answer the correspondence he receives “Our research has shown that for close on the issues of the day. I also listened to from YUTorah users. “I’ve gotten letters to 50 percent of our users, YUTorah has many practical halacha shiurim, including from Australia that say, ‘Thank you for been their first connection with Yeshiva the extensive Yoreh Deah offerings. making it possible for me to stay frum,’ University. Throughout the past nine- Interestingly, a Catholic from Europe signed, ‘your talmid,’” he said. “A virtual and-a-half years, it has been a personal with whom I once corresponded told me talmid is just as good as a regular talmid. privilege to be involved with Rabbi Shur that he avidly followed Rabbi Michael YUTorah is the tomorrow that has and the Yeshiva University community in Rosensweig’s daily Gemara shiur.” already arrived today.” the development of this initiative, sharing Rabbi Student especially appreciated In 2006, Marcos and Adina Katz Torah with 250,000 Jews annually from the recent addition of more than 8,000 gave a generous gift to endow YUTorah. across the world.” n

6 CHAVRUSA • ELUL 5774 News Mussar Initiative at Yeshiva The Yeshiva began a new mussar initiative and Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University in memory of fallen IDF soldiers and Professor of Jewish History and Jewish recent victims of terror in Israel. With Thought and Senior Scholar, CJF. many special shiurim and sedarim that Students can choose from a variety of focus on the middot of Bein Adam daily and weekly shiurim. L’chaveiro, the Talmidei HaYeshiva have Daily shiurim include Rambam’s the opportunity to make this a growing Hilchot Teshuvah by RIETS Rosh Yeshiva time, and to tap into the strong sense of Rabbi Mayer Twersky ‘85R, and mussar achdut that has grasped our communities. chaburot with RIETS Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi “Already one can feel the energy Yitzchok Cohen ‘65R and Kollel Elyon and excitement in the Beit Midrash and fellow Rabbi Yakov Grun ‘12R. around campus,” said Rabbi Ely Bacon Weekly shiurim include: Pachad ‘01R, Mashgiach Ruchani and Assistant Yitzchak on Yamim Noraim by Rabbi Dean of Undergraduate Torah Studies. Ely Bacon; Tefillah Vaad with Rabbi “At the same time, the tone is clearly one Menachem Penner ‘95R, Max and of Elul as talmidim are taking their avodat Marion Grill Dean, RIETS; and the Rav’s Hashem seriously.” Al HaTeshuva by Rabbi Yaakov Glasser learning. This program is open to all Maariv will take place 15 minutes ‘01R, David Mitzner Dean, CJF and Rabbinic Alumni and will take place later than usual in order to encourage time University Life. in the Glueck Beit Midrash beginning for Mussar Seder. In addition, the Yeshiva The Elul zman mussar initiative will on Tuesday, September 23 at 9 a.m. will host special sichot mussar including culminate with a pre-Rosh Hashanah and ending at midnight on Wednesday, Mashpia Rabbi Moshe Weinberger ‘83R Torahthon—15 hours of nonstop September 24, with selichot to follow. n

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Visits Yeshiva Rabbi David Baruch Lau Meets with Roshei Yeshiva, Center for the Jewish Future Staff

Rabbi David Baruch Lau, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, visited Yeshiva University on May 8. The Chief Rabbi met with Roshei Yeshiva and President Richard M. Joel. He also spoke with YU’s Center for the Jewish Future senior staff about their work around the world with rabbis, communities and students, and toured the Wilf Campus and the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Studies with students. “During the Chief Rabbi’s visit he was very curious about YU’s efforts in engaging communities, both rabbinic and lay-leadership, throughout the Diaspora,” are involved in throughout the Jewish the Chief Rabbi’s office have an ongoing said Rabbi Kenneth Brander ‘86R, Vice world and was inspired by his meeting relationship.” n President for University and Community with Roshei Yeshiva and President Joel. life at YU. “He was impressed with the It is critical that Yeshiva University and leadership opportunities our students

7 CHAVRUSA • ELUL 5774 News Conflict Resolution Workshop for Rabbis

Fifteen pulpit rabbis participated in a three-day mediation training seminar, May 19-21, focusing on conflict resolution and organized by CJF and RIETS, in conjunction with the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. The training was presented by attorneys Rabbi Adam Berner ‘94R and Sequoia Stalder, both expert trainers in the field of mediation and conflict resolution. “By definition, rabbis here and in all places are serving so many different roles—in the pulpit, as teachers and as educators, working with many people, and people have differences,” said Rabbi Rabbi Adam Berner (‘94R), seated, and Sequoia Stalder presented a workshop for rabbis on conflict resolution. Berner, an alumnus of Cardozo and an assistant professor at Cardozo. “This being personally engaged in conflict the Center for the Jewish Future, brings workshop is a frame of how best to resolution in some form, whether it’s best practices from the legal field to bear help these leaders deal with differences, communal, ritual, familial or on an on rabbinic leadership,” said Rabbi Levi how to manage the realities of being in organizational level,” said Rabbi Gelman Mostofsky ‘03R, director of the CJF’s a community, and how to take conflict of Kehilat Chovevei Tzion in Skokie, IL. Department of Continuing Education. and see it is an opportunity for growth, “This conference provided the building “In addition to developing the rabbi’s learning and change, for themselves and blocks of managing conflicts on all fronts capacity to mediate, the experience for others.” of the rabbinate, infinitely valuable skills broadened our view of conflict, Through a combination of discussion that touch upon every aspect of the job with broad application in personal, and collaborative role-playing activities, and teach you to understand all sides of a professional and even religious life.” the training was designed to teach contentious issue.” “As a spiritual mentor and a role participants “how to maximize the chance Other attendees viewed the training model, these are life skills that a rabbi of being on the positive side of a conflict,” as a vital part of their ongoing rabbinic needs,” added Rabbi Berner. “It’s a said Stalder, who founded a company to education. privilege to be able to come back to provide workplace mediation training “This training was about seeing Yeshiva, 20 years after I graduated, to help and serves as an adjunct professor at conflicts from different angles and how both the rabbinic community and the Columbia University’s International to effectively work toward a resolution,” legal community.” n Center for Cooperation and Conflict said Rabbi Jeremy Donath ’11R, who Resolution. “We create a framework for leads Congregation Darchei Noam in a dialogue, teaching specific skills that Fair Lawn, NJ. “It’s great to be able to support that dialogue. We teach how to come back to my alma mater to learn get to the root of the conflict, with the and engage in the growth process. goal being collaboration, to determine To be connected to YU and have the how the needs of both sides can be met.” opportunity to attend these trainings is For Rabbi Shaanan Gelman ’06R, the really an asset for me in my perpetual workshop and the topics it covered hit education.” close to home. “This unique collaboration between “Not a week goes by without me all aspects of the University, convened by

8 CHAVRUSA • ELUL 5774 News Rabbi Levi Mostofsky, Director of Continuing Education, to join the Chicago Rabbinical Council as Executive Director

Rabbi Levi Mostofsky ‘03R, Director longtime colleague and mentor, Rabbi of Continuing Education and Rabbinic Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor Alumni at Yeshiva University’s Center of Jewish History and Jewish Thought for the Jewish Future, is leaving to join and Senior Scholar at the CJF, raised an the Chicago Rabbinical Council (CRC). important question that may encourage Rabbi Mostofsky graduated from Yeshiva reflective practice. College with a degree in biology before “How many of us can say that we continuing his studies at the Rabbi Isaac helped shape an entire field? We hope Elchanan Theological Seminary. In 2003 to have some influence, maybe, on our he began working at Yeshiva University loved ones, and maybe on some members in the Max Stern Division of Communal of our kehillah, but on thousands of Services, filling many roles, including rabbis?” asked Rabbi Schacter. “That editor of CHAVRUSA magazine, and has is, precisely, what Rabbi Mostofsky has been on the staff of the Center for the done during his years with us at CJF. His Jewish Future since its inception. strategic thinking, wisdom, thoughtful In praise of Rabbi Mostofsky, his planning and expert implementation has helped create the field of ongoing rabbinate in ways we could have only have rabbinic professional education. He dreamed about before Rabbi Mostofsky How many of us can has spearheaded conferences, webinars took on this immense challenge.” and multiple online opportunities for Rabbi Mostofsky will be sorely say that we helped thousands of rabbis whose lives he has missed. deeply and profoundly enhanced.” “I personally learned a great deal shape an entire Rabbi Mostofsky developed a cadre from Levi,” said Rabbi Schacter. “I will of programs for rabbis under the aegis miss him as a partner in the work I do field? We hope to of the Legacy Heritage Fund Rabbinic and recognize that all we may be able Enrichment Initiative. He coordinated to accomplish in the future is due— have some influence, the continuing education and support directly—to what he has put into place programming for rabbis and rebbetzins, for us. I am thrilled for Levi that he maybe, on our loved including conferences, seminars and going to bring his enormous talents online services and resources. “Our and creativity to the Chicago rabbinic ones, and maybe on rabbis have been enriched by the quality community and I join his many friends in of programing online and in conferences wishing him continued hatzlachah.” some members of offered throughout his tenure,” said As a new year approaches, the Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg ‘83R, rabbinic programming team at CJF will our kehillah, but on Director of the Morris and Gertrude continue to provide quality learning Bienenfeld Department of Jewish Career opportunities for alumni under the thousands of rabbis? Development and Placement at CJF and guidance of Rabbi Ari Sytner, Director RIETS. “These cutting-edge initiatives of Community Initiatives, and Rabbi Naphtali Lavenda ‘09R, Director of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter have strengthened the American Online Rabbinic Programming. n

9 CHAVRUSA • ELUL 5774 Divrei Chizuk

Recognizing our Kochos Rabbi Moshe Weinberger ’83R, Mashpia (Adapted from a Sicha delivered Elul 5773)

There’s a story told about the Rebbe from through the hole. The Rebbe called out: year and reject that which we have not Rodeshitz, a tzaddik who was killed in the “Hashem, who is like Your nation, Yisrael. really evaluated. We must face the painful Holocaust. It was the night before Erev With all of his suffering and misery, all a truth that somehow over the year you and Yom Kippur in 1942 in the Lodz Ghetto, Jew wants is to find an opening, a way to I have slipped away from what we wanted עומדות היו רגלינו בשעריך .and the Jews of the ghetto felt broken and reach something holy and pure!” last Yom Kippur lost. The one thing the Rebbe was longing This point in time that we’re in right —we’re at the gates of Yerushalayim now. the ,שעריך ירושלים for was to be able to immerse in a mikvah. now is the opening to the mikvah. It is We are just approaching The Germans had cemented up all the the opening to the mikvah in a world Gates of Yerushalayim. entrances of all the mikvas in the ghetto, that in different ways is darker than Lodz The story is told about how the Ba’al claiming that they were unsanitary. in 1942. HaTanya, who would lein every Shabbos, After curfew, a boy came to the TheSefer Yetzira says that everything was once not there to lein the Tochacha. Rebbe and told him that a mikvah had exists is space (Olam), exists in time When his young son (later to become the been found. “This is an absolute secret,” (Shana), exists in the soul (Nefesh), and Mittler Rebbe, Rav Dov Ber) heard the he told the Rebbe. “There is a building has a corresponding existence in each of Tochacha being read by a Ba’al Koreh, he adjacent to another building which these worlds. In physical space, the holiest cried the whole time. After davening they has a mikvah in its basement; we were place in the world of course is the Kodesh asked him, “Berel, what is it?” “What is able to dig a hole from one building to Kodashim. In time, it is Neilah. In Nefesh, it!” he says, “the Tochacha!” They replied, another using penknives, spoons, and it is the Kohen Gadol. “But haven’t you heard the Tochacha screwdrivers in order that we reach the So what time are we at now? Elul, Erev before?” “Yes, I know, but my when father mikvah. No one is allowed to know about Slichos, approaching that time of Neilah. reads it, I hear only the brachos.” Let us try to hear one of these עומדות היו רגלינו בשערייך ירושלים. this, and only I was sent to inform a few Rosh Yeshivas and Rebbes that are still The sefarim say that this does not just brachos. יקימך ה’ לו לעם קדוש כאשר נשבע לך כי alive here in the ghetto.” mean to stand physically at the gates of תשמור את מצוות ה’ אלוקיך והלכת בדרכיו. Risking their lives, the Rebbe went Yerushalayim. Raglayim, legs, feet, is also with his shaames to find this building. a lashon of hergel, of habit. We become The Torah says in the parsha of the When they got there, they found meshubad to habits. Not just in our Tochacha that Hashem will establish us themselves in a large basement packed behavior, but in our way of thinking, in and lift us up as a great and holy people. .כי תשמור את מצוות ה’ אלוקיך והלכת בדרכיו עומדות היו רגלינו בשעריך .with hundreds of Jews—not just Rosh our way of living means that when we come to the Only if we live in the way of Torah and ירושלים Yeshivas and Rebbes. Apparently the secret had gotten out. Each and every gates of Yerushalayim, as we approach the mitzvos. person who was there had risked his life time of selichos, as we are about to leave The Torah then says something to go out after the curfew. One person at 5774 and B’ezrat Hashem to enter into astonishing: וראו כל עמי הארץ כי שם ה’ נקרא עליך we have to stop—עומדות היו רגלינו—a time was being hoisted up and pushed 5775 ויראו ממך. through the hole that had been carved in all of the hergelim, all of the things that the basement wall. There was one person we do, just because we are doing them. All of the nations of the world will see on the other side to help people come We must revisit all of the habits of the that the name of Hashem is upon you and

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they will fear you. It is not just a matter of Thus, the Tochacha says: are now, it is forbidden to ignore this gift. What is this gift? There is a famous תחת אשר לא עבדת את יהוה אלוקיך what other people think of us. The Torah Chazal: the Malachim asked the middah בשמחה ובטוב לבב מרוב כול. is saying that when we live according to the will of Hashem, when we try to be Hashem Yisbarach, because of his of Chachmah, if a person sins what is the What great love for us, has invested Himself punishment? Chochmah answers: the .כי שם ה’ נקרא עליך good Jews, then sins of a person bring his destruction. The :כי שם ה’ נקרא עליך .does this mean? The seforim tell us that it into our existence means that the Shem Hashem is engraved Hashem has invested Himself into us. A Malachim ask Nevuah, if a person sins very deep within each and every one father and a mother, for example, know what is his punishment? Answers Nevuah, of us—it is the essence of who we are. how heartbreaking it is when you put if a person sins, he dies; and finally they Emunah everything you have into a child, you give ask HaKadosh Baruch Hu: If a person .אלקות We all have a chelek of is not something that we have to find yourself over to your child and you know sins, what is his punishment? Hashem somewhere else; emunah is something that the child has unbelievable abilities, says, do teshuvah and the teshuvah will and yet the child says, “No, I’m a nobody, atone for him, yaaseh teshuvah v’yiskaper כי .we have to uncover within ourselves means that the Torah is I’m a nothing, I’m this, I’m that,” or acts in lo. That means that Hashem Yisbarach שם ה’ נקרא עליך telling us that there is a way; that if we live a way that demonstrates that he believes was michadesh such a metzius, which the right way, the Shem Hashem that is that he is a nobody, that he is nothing. Chazal tell us was kadma l’olam. Hashem within us will be revealed in our lives. The parents watch this and their hearts was michadesh such a metzius, called And if we succeed at this then it are broken, because the parents know teshuvah. Yaaseh teshuvah n’yiskaper lo won’t just guide our lives, but others will that the nature of the child is special and means that man was given the ability, this wonderful. All the parents want is that greatest gift of all, to change, to turn the .כל עמי הארץ ,see as well However if we don’t live according to the child should be successful and take clock back. Hashem’s will, there will be Tochacha. advantage of his teva, the maalos that he The Ramchal asks in the fourth perek Let us elaborate. The Meshech has. That is all the parents want. And that of Mesillas Yesharim: how is it possible Chochmah traces the Tochacha to one is all Hakodosh Baruch Hu wants from us. for a person to correct that which was essential pasuk: The whole Tochacha revolves around already made crooked? How is it possible this nekuda, with the Boreh Olam saying to remove something from existence? It תחת אשר לא עבדת את יהוה אלוקיך to each and every one of us and to Am exists! The Ribono Shel Olam revealed to בשמחה ובטוב לבב מרוב כול. The root of all of our difficulties is Yisrael as a people: “Children, do you us yaaseh teshuvah v’yiskaper lo, the gift failing to serve Hashem with happiness. know how much I love you? Do you know of changing, the gift of going back, the gift .refers to all of the things that how much I’ve given you? Do you know of having a chance to start again מרוב כול Hashem Yisbarach has given us and our what I have infused into you, that which I When Adam HaRishon ate from the lack of gratitude for all the berachos of have invested into you?” tree, he said, “the wife that you gave me, means What are you doing with the Rov she was the one who gave me from the מרוב כול ,life. But on a deeper level that, besides all the things he has given Kol? What are you and I doing with the tree and I ate.” Interestingly, the pasuk which is future tense, and not , וָ ֹא כֵ ל us, He has given each and every one of Rov Kol that HaKadosh Baruch Hu has says Chazal learn that Adam HaRishon .ואכלתי The given us? Do we feel this simcha? Do we .אלקות us from Himself; a chelek of Rov Kol is not referring to what you feel the excitement and the joy of being said to the Boreh Olam, “I have eaten singled out by the Boreh Kol Olamos, by from the tree and I am going to continue .שם ה’ נקרא עליך have, but who you are The orec of who a person is, a nefesh having within us this nefesh Elokis? This to eat from the tree.” ,אכלתי ואכל Elokis, a sechel Eloki. is the charge of the “Mayrov Kol.” Now if But what does that mean The Meshech Chochmah writes this is the charge throughout the entire that I ate from the tree and I’m going to that man must rejoice, praise, and give year and every moment of life, how much eat from the tree? The simple pshat is thanks to Hashem from the depths of more so when it comes to this time of that Adam HaRishon is saying: “Ribono his heart because of who we are and who year, to the Yimay Haratzon, to the Yimay Shel Olam, You created me with your we can become. The Ribono Shel Olam Hadin. Because at this time of the year own hands. I’m the yetzir kapav of gave us, from Himself, a nefesh Elokis, there is one particular talent and maalah Hashem. And despite all of that and a sechel Eloki, the kochos to live lives of of a Jew that throughout the whole year despite the fact that before I ate from the Kedusha. For this you and I should be might be very hidden and concealed. But tree I was naki, I was clean, I was tahor, where we I was kadosh, I was pure, and with all of ,שערייך ירושלים dancing with simcha. when it comes to

11 CHAVRUSA • ELUL 5774 Divrei Chizuk this, I ate from the tree. So I’m lost. If Leib Chasman says that from a purely first Jew went to beis din, claiming that I ate from the tree despite the fact that physical perspective, when a person the money belongs to him because it is a I was a kadosh and a tahor, then I have is on the outside of yiddishkeit, then mekach taus since he only had in mind to to tell you Ribono Shel Olam, Achalti the Torah and Ribono Shel Olam are a sell the tar. He never ever had in mind to Va’Ochal, that I am doomed to spend the million miles away from you. But if you sell the money that was there (that he did rest of my life committing that sin and have the courage to enter into that place not know about). if The Yireim paskened that the second ,כי שם ה’ נקרא עליך of ,אנכי ה’ אלוקך other sins over and over. I am doomed to of within, you Jew owns the money that is buried אלקות a life of sin.” However, he was mistaken; you enter that place of underneath. This is because the first כי קרוב ,the Ribono Shel Olam revealed to us will discover and be shocked that fellow was not zoche in this money since כי קרוב I did not realize ,אליך הדבר מאד .yaaseh teshuvah v’yiskaper Just like he didn’t know of it and he therefore did .אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו כי המצוה הזאת אשר אנכי מצווך היום לא .when a child is afraid to undertake some not have any kavanah to be koneh it נפלאת הוִא ממך ולא רחוקה הוִ א. לא בשמים ,next step in life and he sees it as being a The Mei Hashiloach, the Ishbitzer הוִ א לאמר מי יעלה לנו השמימה ויקחה לנו million miles away, and the parents know says on this psak of the Yireim that if a וישמענו אתה ונעשנה. ולא מעבר לים הוִ א לאמר he can do it and somehow he is able to person owns the greatest treasures in the מי יעבר לנו אל עבר הים ויקחה לנו וישמענו אתה break through that fear, and he does it and world, but if he does not know of those ונעשנה. כי קרוב אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך treasures, then he cannot be zoche in .כי קרוב אליך הדבר מאד ,he’s so excited לעשתו )דברים ל: יא-יד(. Rav Leib Chasman zt”l asks a Rav Noson of Breslov writes that them and they are of no use to him. powerful question. Normally when you as soon as a person strengthens himself If you do not know what is inside of have a hava amina that is somewhat off, with a ratzon of holiness, he should who you are then you cannot be zoche it will be adjusted in the maskana. For not to be afraid that it is beyond his to the gift that Hashem Yisbarach has example, if you ask somebody “how long reach, that it is me’ever layam, or in given us. does it take to get from this place to that Shamayim. He must move forward The gift of teshuva and of mechila. place? Does it take five hours?” that is with determination that even if it is in The gift of Himself. Because that’s the the hava amina. The person says “no, no, Shamayim, “I’m going to go, I’m going to gift that’s buried underneath all the filfth maybe four and a half.” That makes sense. do this.” Even if it means getting across of our lives. It was close. Not five hours, but four and the ocean, I’m going to learn the pshat So the biggest brachah that I can a half. However, if somebody says I have in this Tosafos, “I can do it.” Rav Noson give is that you and I should be able to uncover that Gift, to shake off all the קרוב a hava amina that it takes five hours to get says that immediately, he discovers Then he realizes that all the devarim stuff that is covering it and to realize it is .אליך to that place and the person says it takes .כי קרוב אליך הדבר ,only five minutes, then the hava amina is a she’b’kedusha that he thought was reachable not worth addressing. It is not even worth me’ever layam or in Shamayim, were in We should be zoche that each and talking about such a hava amina. truth close to us all along. every one of us to enter the gates of means to be Yerushalayim with simcha, b’tov levav and ושמחת בכל הטוב And yet over here, the hava amina to be a kadosh and tahor is very far away, b’simcha regardless of whatever is to be able to go from that gate into the in Shamayim, me’ever layam. And what’s missing from your life in the metzius of next gate, into the next gate until finally the maskana? The maskana is: “No, no, this world, but to be b’simcha with the we are able to stand, kivayachol, by the no.” It’s not b’shamayim. It’s not me’ever Rov Tov, with the Rov Kol of what the Ribono Shel Olam Himself in the Beis layam. Borei Olam has given us. HaMikdash, to be zoche to be there to The Hagaos Ha’ashri (second perek see the kohen gadol, to see the maareh כי קרוב אליך ?You know where it is of Bava Metzia) quotes a maaseh that was kohen when he comes out of the Kodesh .הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו What kind of hava amina is that, brought to the Baal HaYireim. There was a Kodashim, b’guelah hasheleima B’miheira Shamayim, me’ever layam? And the Jew who bought some tar for fixing roofs, B’yameinu, Amen V’amen! n but then decided that he did not need ,כי קרוב אליך הדבר מאד maskana is what it and sold it to another Jew. And lo and כי five minutes? Not even five minutes ,behold, under the tar, under the shmutz !?קרוב אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו It’s all a matter of perspective. Rav the second Jew finds a lot of money. The

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Transforming our Communities Rabbi Yaakov Glasser ’01R

David Mitzner Dean, Center for the Jewish Future and University Life

Rabbi Yaakov Glasser was recently appointed David Mitzner Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future and University Life at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Glasser also serves as the Rav of the Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton. Rabbi Glasser comes to Yeshiva with a rich background in Jewish communal and organizational life, and held positions such as the Regional Director of New Jersey NCSY and the NCSY International Director of Education. In these capacities, Rabbi Glasser worked extensively with communities and schools across North America to create programs and implement educational curricula that inspire Jewish teens from across the spectrum of affiliation. Rabbi Glasser lives with his wife, Dr. Ruth Glasser, and four children in Passaic, NJ.

the Kohein Gadol is locked in prison. chamber seems confining and limiting שבעת ימים קודם יום הכפורים מפרישין כהן גדול ,What is the nature of Rabbi Yehuda’s to the untrained spiritual eye. In reality מביתו ללשכת פרהדרין. - מש’, יומא ב. The Lishkas Parhedrin becomes concern? Why would the obligation of this environment provides the Kohein the home of the Kohein Gadol for the affixing a mezuzah to the door of this room Gadol with the foundation to encounter week preceding his avodah on Yom emanate from the perception that the the most profound moment of Divine HaKippurim. It is in this chamber that Lishkas Parhedrin appears as a prison? connection imaginable. Chazal mandate he will prepare himself intellectually, The Mishna in Taanis 26b states: the placement of the mezuzah to project to those outside of this process that the לא היו ימים טובים לישראל כחמשה עשר emotionally, and spiritually to represent dimensions of Jewish life, which often באב וכיום הכיפורים .the Jewish people on Yom HaKippurim One can only imagine the mixed emotions Despite its character as a day of feel so imprisoning, are in fact saturating of apprehension and anticipation as the inuy, Yom HaKippurim stands as yom one’s experience with the nuanced reality of his awesome responsibility sets in tov of mikrah kodesh. Indeed, the entire opportunities to draw closer to G-d and throughout the Asseres Yemei Teshuvah. experience of Yom Kippur is designed to lead a meaningful life. The Gemara (Yoma, 10a-10b) relates a empower us to transcend our physicality Contemporary rabbinic leadership fascinating halachic anomaly regarding this and embrace a higher level of living that is confronts a generation that increasingly chamber relative to the other rooms of the saturated with the meaning and purpose views the framework of Torah and Beis HaMikdash: of serving as an eved Hashem. Living in mitzvos as a beis haasurim, as a lifetime a hedonistic world, which is defined by of inuy. It is our role to place a mezuzah תנו רבנן: כל הלשכות שהיו במקדש לא ,the aspiration of seeking life’s greatest on the doorway of our shuls, schools היו להן מזוזה, חוץ מלשכת פרהדרין שהיה בה pleasures, makes it difficult to resolve and homes that project the ideals of בית דירה לכהן גדול. אמר רבי יהודה: והלא כמה the values of restraint and meaning that “ve’ahavta es Hashem Elokecha,” and לשכות היו במקדש שהיה להן בית דירה, ולא היה characterize so much of Torah life. Yet defines the religious experience as one of להן מזוזה. אלא, לשכת פרהדרין גזירה היתה. מאי this is precisely what the Torah asks of us: inspiration and growth. Torah Judaism טעמא דרבי יהודה ... שלא יאמרו כהן גדול חבוש to harness the physical dimensions of this requires sacrifice, and demands a lifestyle בבית האסורין. Our rabbis taught: all of the chambers world, and elevate them in service of the of discipline and restraint. In a world in the Beit HaMikdash did not have a Ribono Shel Olam. that endlessly innovates mediums of mezuzah except for the Lishkas Parhedrin, The Lishkas Parhedrin appears to technology that are designed to circumvent which served as living quarters for the the outsider as a prison. It is a space that any effort or inconvenience of daily life, Kohein Gadol. Rabbi Yehuda said: Weren’t has been sanctified to inspire and train Torah observance stands challenged in there other living quarters in the Temple the Kohein Gadol in the procedures its design to encourage and promote that did not have a mezuzah? Rather, this of his avodah. He lives secluded from the diligence and sacrifice of living a life was a specific institution for the Lishkas his family, and is engaged in a highly of sanctity and purpose. Rabbi Yehuda Parhedrin. What is the reason for Rabbi structured process of preparation for provides our mandate—“shelo yomru …” Yehuda?… so that they should not say that the avodas Yom HaKippurim. The We provide the mezuzos of religious life

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that transform and uplift our communities’ upon the character of the day as one of for us to consider our priorities and what desire to engage in religious life. inuy. Ve’inisem es nafshoseichem means truly matters in life. As our brethren in The poskim (see R. Akiva Eiger’s that the limits of indulgence that define Israel were hunkered down in bomb comments on Magen Avraham 618:10 Yom Hakippurim, become the source, shelters and stairwells, the Jewish and Ohr Samayach, Hilchos Avodas and not the competition, to the oneg people managed to place a mezuzah on Yom HaKippurim 4:1) discuss the of Shabbos. In the context of religious the isolating chambers of protection. unique status Yom HaKippurim when it growth, inuy and oneg can merge into a The inuy gave way to deep oneg as we coincides with Shabbos. If people find higher calling of standing lifnei Hashem. experienced a renaissance of unity themselves in a situation where they are Summer 5774 was a deeply throughout the Jewish world. HaKadosh halachically required to break their fast challenging time for the Jewish people. Baruch Hu asks us to surrender our for reasons of health, are they required to The loss of life, beginning with the personal comforts and indulgences to a recite Kiddush, Hamotzi, Yaaleh Veyavo, young boys who united our nation, and higher purpose of sanctity and meaning. etc.? The Ohr Samayach explains that continuing with the brave heroes of Am Let us join together, in teshuvah and despite the seeming suspension of the Yisrael who went into battle to protect the tefilah, and reach that aspiration of yom formal requirements of inuy in deference Jewish people throughout the world, was tov that can define all of the Yom Kippur to health concerns, when Yom Kippur excruciating. Yet the war also provided moments throughout our lives. n coincides with Shabbos, the entire many moments of introspection and requirement of oneg is redefined based realignment. It provided opportunities

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Preparing for Shemittah An Interview with Rabbi Shalom Rosner ‘97R

Rabbi Shalom Rosner is the Rav of Kehilat Nofei Hashemesh in Bet Shemesh, and Rebbe at Yeshivot Reishit Yerushalayim and Shaalvim. Before making aliyah in August 2008, Rabbi Rosner served as a Maggid Shiur at Yeshiva University’s Stone Beit Midrash Program and as the Rabbi of Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok, the “Island Shul,” for six years. During the summers, Rabbi Rosner is Camp Rabbi and Director of educational programming at Camp Kaylie.

CHAVRUSA: What are some of the of which we must familiarize ourselves, challenges that your community but we cannot lose sight of the goal of this will face during the Shemittah year, year, of recognizing the kedusha which and what measures do you have in our Holy Land exhibits, reflected by place to meet these challenges? limitations and prohibitions, as well as the privilege which we have to partake of its When one approaches the Shemittah holy fruit. year, it must be with an attitude of Being seen in this light, any CHAVRUSA: What unique excitement and looking forward. Often, “challenge” takes on a whole new experiences have impacted you in we get caught up in the nitty-gritty meaning. It’s not something that I preparation for this year? Do you details of a halacha (which obviously have to “deal with,” but an opportunity see Shemittah differently now that are important), and overlook the deeper to fulfill a mitzvah that most of our you have been living in Israel? messages of the mitzvah. One who is ancestors could only dream of. It is an uninitiated and has never experienced area of halacha that must be studied The Shulchan Aruch HaRav tells us a Shabbat might be intimidated and thoroughly to master, with many that each of us must master kol haTorah overwhelmed by the world of Hilchot contemporary guides available to help kulah, including learning about all of the Shabbat, and think of it as no more us along. This represents the greatest 613 mitzvot. Even one living in chutz than a day of “no’s” and limitations to challenge, to familiarize ourselves la’aretz has an obligation to learn Hilchot navigate through; and yet we know that with an area of halacha that has been Shemittah. But it is a totally different Shabbat is our identity, our lifeline, and transformed for us from l’shma into experience when one is not just learning we cannot imagine a life without Shabbat halacha l’maaseh. The only way to it, but living it. and all that it represents for us and our prepare for this year is to learn and My wife and I often discuss, families. So too, this is how we must try study its laws. In our shul, the Shabbat regarding many events that we have lived to approach this year of Shemittah, which afternoon shiur throughout the year through over the last six years (since the Torah itself links to Shabbat. Yes, will be devoted almost exclusively to aliyah), that there is a major emotional, there are challenges and intricate details Shemittah topics. spiritual, and existential difference

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between watching the game from the sidelines and playing the game. In Israel, one feels like he is playing the game, be it be it taking ,מצות התלויות בארץ regarding part in a Yom Ha’atzmaut or in a Yom HaZikaron ceremony in this land where the events actually took place, or be it as when ,עם feeling deeply part of the some of the teenagers from our shul were sent into Gaza to defend our country. Everything here is just more “real”; there תמיד is an intangible that is the result of and we are privileged to ,עיני ה’ אלקיך בה be part of it. One of our aliyah “moments” was (six years ago) when our then 5-year- old daughter took an apple out of the refrigerator, and innocently asked, “Abba, that though most of us are not in the Jewish history, along with the questions does it have kedusha?” What a question, agricultural field (or those who do not of when can I move to a place that we all what a zechut. yet live in Eretz Yisrael), the messages of know is the real center and destiny of the So the answer is yes, of course we Shemittah can still be practiced. Giving Jewish future. And each rabbi, with his view it differently now, as living in Eretz of our time and advice to those in need, family, must deal with this very personal, Yisrael impacts on everything one is voluntarily opening up our expertise to defining decision, constantly asking involved in, be it their physical or spiritual those who are not so fortunate, inviting himself, “Where does Hashem want me?” lives. people who might not receive as many It is not a simple discussion for anyone, invitations as most others, are all at least and I might add, especially for rabbis, CHAVRUSA: What inspiring partial fulfillments of what Shemittah is who have communal responsibilities messages do you share with your all about. Supporting financially (through weighing on their shoulders. kehillah regarding Shemittah? congregational collections) the farmers I would just like to close with the who sacrifice tremendously to observe words of advice that my Rebbe, Rav The messages of Shemittah are gleaned Shemittah is also a great opportunity to Michael Rosensweig, gave to me when from all the classic texts which we look make a real difference in the lives of fellow we were debating what to do. He said that to for guidance for any mitzvah. Just Jews. whatever the decision, one must figure to mention a few ideas without going out a way to affect the Jews on the other into the specific sources (Ramban, CHAVRUSA: Now that you’re living side of the ocean as well. If the decision Chinuch, Kli Yakar, and Be’er Yosef), in Israel, what do you hope to is to make aliyah, find means to continue we know that keeping the laws of convey to RIETS alumni living in the making a difference for American Jewry Shemittah requires perseverance and Diaspora? as well (writing, blogging, computer commitment, reflection, bitachon and shiurim, trips, etc). And if the decision an acknowledgement of who is the real Jewish leadership is required everywhere is to stay temporarily in Galut, one must Ba’al HaBayit of the world. It demands throughout the world. Where there constantly explore avenues of helping, our cessation from certain creative are Jews, there must be rabbis. But as supporting, and identifying with the Jews agricultural work, just as Hashem rested the great Terumat Hadeshen writes in in Eretz Yizrael. May we all merit the day on the seventh day of maaseh bereishit. one of his teshuvot, we must constantly when there won’t be any decisions to It should create within us a heightened think and reassess where can I best be make, and all Jews will dance together in awareness of our fellow Jews who are not the servant that Hashem wants me to Yerushalayim. n so fortunate, and help develop within be. Where can I affect the most Jews, מדת הוותרנות us our . Rav Rimon notes where can I have the greatest impact on

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As of 9/12/2014 Join us in supporting our Yeshiva and its vital activities, please visit: www.yu.edu/riets/alumni. Divrei Hesped In Appreciation of HaGaon Rav Gershon Yankelewitz zt”l By Rabbi Elchanan Adler ‘90R (Adapted from a hesped given at Yeshiva, September 3, 2014)

Alongside the attention-grabbing headlines that characterize life at Yeshiva University, there is a lesser- known story that has yet to be told. Its locus is a small office on the fifth floor of Furst Hall, inhabited by an elderly tzadik—a link to the past who studied at the feet of the gedolim of pre-war Europe and served for almost six decades teaching at Yeshiva. In recent years, up to and including this past June, Rav Gershon Yankelewitz would spend mornings in his office, huddled over a Gemara. Aside from teaching a daily shiur, he remained on call at all times to learn individually with talmidim a fraction of his age, irrespective of their background and ability. For each talmid that he taught and interacted with, Rav Yankelewitz displayed enormous patience and concern. From the daled amos of Furst Hall Room 508 emanated an extraordinary light that elevated the entire Yeshiva campus. Rav Yankelewitz’s light was extinguished on 23 Menachem Av, 5774 (August 19, 2014), four months shy of his 105th birthday. .יהי זכרו ברוך

Praiseworthiness, Radiance, and For almost 60 years, our yeshiva everyone, young and old, with respect Beauty merited to have a tzadik in our midst who and would freely compliment the exemplified all of these aspects to the talmidim of the yeshiva, saying things like יציאת צדיק מן המקום עושה“ :Chazal tell us ”.a tzadik’s departure leaves an utmost. “you are tops—”רושם impression. They describe the impression The yiras shamayim of Rav A YU musmach who recently retired Yankelewitz zt”l was palpable—his from the rabbinate told me that he had ”.הדד, זיו, הור“—in terms of three aspects meticulousness in shemiras ha’mitzvos, Rav Yankelewitz as a rebbe approximately הוא“—When a tzadik is present in a city he is its hod, kala kevachamura. Well past his 100th 50 years ago at MTA. I asked him what“—”הודה, הוא זיוה, הוא הדרה he is its ziv, he is its hadar.” When a tzadik birthday, he would stand during kerias he recalled most; he said that Rav haTorah, would make sure to wash netilas Yankelewitz never, ever raised his voice —”פנה הודה, פנה זיוה, פנה הדרה“—leaves each of these three aspects leaves with yadayim for davening and not have to in class. But it goes beyond that: Rav him. According to the Maharal, these rely on having done so in the morning, Yankelewitz’s son Reb Moshe told me that expressions correspond to three distinct and, as recently as this past Tisha B’Av, his father never raised his voice at all. realms of a tzadik’s influence: yiras would insist on sitting on the ground like For Rav Yankelewitz, these three shamayim, chochmah, and middos tovos. everyone else. When his son objected, he components were not discrete aspects Hod, which comes from the word remarked: “This is how I always did it.” of his personality; they were part of meaning praise or thanks, refers to the Regarding his Torah, Rav an organic whole and inseparable quality of yiras shamayim, which is, by Yankelewitz left notebooks filled with from one another. His Torah, his yiras its very nature, worthy of praise and chidushim, including shiurim that he shamayim and his middos tovos were accolades—as the pasuk (Mishlei 31:30) heard from the Brisker Rav. His hasmada chativa achas—an integrated entity. A was remarkable—he could easily spend Rav Yankelewitz was an integrated“—”אשה יראת השם היא תתהלל“ :states woman who fears Hashem, she should hours at a time over a Gemara. And, of personality—he embodied a sense of be praised.” Ziv, which means “shine,” course, there is all of the Torah that he shleimus. Like a polished diamond, there represents chochmah, as the pasuk taught to his many talmidim for close to were no rough edges. six decades. His passing leaves an indelible void חכמת אדם תאיר“ Koheles 8:1) states) פנה הודה, פנה זיוה“—A man’s wisdom lights up his Finally, Rav Yankelewitz had within our Yeshiva“—”פניו ”.פנה הדרה face.” Hadar, which connotes beauty, is extraordinary middos. He was a a reference to middos tovos, just as the gentleman in every sense of the word. He Mishnah in Avos (2:1) describes such was always quick to offer compliments The Mussar Personality qualities as “teferes le’oseha”—a beauty and to express his genuine sense of It is impossible to truly appreciate the for one who displays them. appreciation for others. He treated greatness of Rav Yankelewitz without understanding the world that shaped him.

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Rav Yankelewitz was molded by the great until his 100th birthday, he traveled to his heavy litvishe accent, including the Lithuanian Yeshivos—primarily Radin Yeshiva each day from his home in the mareh makom that appeared within and Mir—and was deeply impacted Bronx by two buses and walking the few the parentheses. After concluding a by the Musar Movement, whose ideals blocks from 181st street. It was not until paragraph or two, he would look up permeated the koslei hayeshiva. several years ago that Yeshiva arranged for and ask: “so what is he saying?” inviting Mussar and the work of tikun him to travel to and from the yeshiva with me to summarize the main points in hamiddos wasn’t divorced from talmud a car service. a sentence or two. I started to look Torah; it was part and parcel of the same Sometimes I would arrive at Yeshiva forward to this time together and it enterprise. Just as ameilus was expended around the same time as Rav Yankelewitz, became a highlight of my week, so much in analyzing sugya after sugya in Shas, and I would be lucky enough to escort so that even after the zman ended in so did ameilus go into dissecting the him from the car to his office in Furst mid-June, I made a trip to his home to sugya of sheviras hamiddos—exercising Hall 508. Even at the age of 104, Rav learn together. self-discipline in the refining of one’s Yankelewitz did not use a cane or a He possessed a genuine sense of personality and character. Mussar taught walker. Rather, he held on to the elbow of hakaras hatov to Yeshiva for providing that there should be no bifurcation within whoever was helping him, and he made him with the opportunity to learn and to one’s personality—no difference between the trek from the parking lot down the teach Torah. His son, Reb Moshe, told bein adam l’makom and bein adam block, up some steps to the elevator, and me that each year on the last day of the l’chaveiro, between how one behaves to his office. zman Rav Yankelewitz would come in in public among people and how one Rav Yankelewitz would spend to gather his belongings from his office. behaves behind closed doors. several hours each day in his office After making an accounting of whatever While in Radin, he was privileged learning, and various talmidim would he needed to take with him, he would to be meshameish the Chofetz Chaim stream in each day to hear shiur take leave of his office. He would kiss and, later on, he became deeply attached from him. I would typically visit Rav the mezuzah and express a tefillah that to the Mirrer Mashgiach, Rav Yerucham Yankelewitz in his office on Thursdays “the Ribono Shel Olam should give me Levovitz zt”l, whose seforim never left his and we would learn the sefer Daas the zechus and koiach to return after the table. Torah for about 30 minutes. There was summer and continue for another year.” Even more than Radin, it was the something surreal and extraordinary At the Chag HaSemicha in March, experience of Mir that left a lifelong about learning with a gadol of this which lasted for several hours, I sat impact on Rav Yankelewitz and his caliber—someone who was a link to next to Rav Yankelewitz, who stayed personality. For Rav Yankelewitz, mussar the Torah giants of the past and whose through the entire program. At five or six wasn’t an intellectual exercise, it was a way mind was still sharp at the age of 104. points along the way, there were musical of life. Rav Yerucham’s schmuzen weren’t He would read each word aloud with interludes and everyone in the auditorium vertlech to say over, but values of life that he personified and internalized. Those who are familiar with Rav Yerucham’s shmuzen know that the notion of shleimus—the integrated personality— is a recurring and favorite theme. Rav Yankelewitz embodied that sense of shleimus because he was a living mussar sefer. How did this sense of shleimus manifest itself here on these shores and in our yeshiva? Rav Yankelewitz lived his life with a cheshbon. Everything he did was carefully thought out; in Yiddish, the word for this would be “oisgecheshbint.” He had an impeccable sense of integrity and a deep achrayus to his avodas hakodesh. Almost

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until the very end. He, along with his לא מחזיק stood up. To my surprise, each and every The ultimate attribute is not taking credit for Rebbetzin Bluma a”h, raised a family—טיבותא לנפשיה time, Rav Yankelewitz turned toward me and to Rav Mayer Twersky, who oneself. This quality epitomized Rav of seven children—banim uvnei vanim was on his left, and motioned to us to Yankelewitz. What most of us would oskim baTorah ube’gemilus chasodim. help him up. Despite his age and health, perceive as a pechisas hakavod—a He was able to participate in so many he didn’t want to deviate from minhag slight—meant nothing to Rav family simchas—even traveling to Eretz hamakom. As Chazal say, “al tehi yoshev Yankelewitz. And not because he didn’t Yisrael a few short years ago—when he bein ha’omdin”—“don’t be seated among have a sense of dignity; to the contrary, was already passed his 100th birthday. All those who are standing.” But that is not he had a certain regal, aristocratic quality of this is surely neither sheer coincidence, all. At the conclusion of the ceremony, to him. It was just that the kinds of petty nor a function of good DNA, but rather a each musmach came up to the stage to things that annoy most of us were simply gift from Hakodesh Boruch Hu, l’maalah be acknowledged and to shake hands not important to him. He would make min hatevah. with various roshei yeshiva. This part of efforts to attend a simcha without the We, Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak the proceeding itself must have taken a slightest thought about getting a kibud. Elchanan, were zoche for these many good half hour. For the entire duration, Receiving kavod was simply not on his years to have had a giant in our midst. Rav Yankelewitz stood there, supported radar screen. Someone who offered a window into a by myself and by Rav Twersky. And as Rav Yankelewitz had a natural sense Torah world of the past. Someone who each new musmach passed in front of of anavah and did not hold himself to bore the imprint of the mesorah in every him, Rav Yankelewitz extended his hand be anyone special. When people would fiber of his being. Someone who was a and wished them hatzlacha. That is the ask him for berachos he would feel walking musar sefer—whose Torah, yiras essence of a “musar personality.” uncomfortable. His son, Reb Yoel related shamayim and middos tovos were all that he once asked his father: “Pappa, fashioned from the same cloth and were Lessons in Anavah why are you so reluctant to give people part of one integrated musar personality. Of all his remarkable qualities, the one berachos?” Rav Yankelewitz answered: Someone who personified the middah that perhaps stands out the most is his “I am afraid if I start doing that, I will of anavah, whose gadlus was contained anavah. Rav Yankelewitz didn’t simply become a ba’al gaavah.” That comment within his pashtus. preach anavah—he lived and breathed it. says it all. We need to reflect on what he stood The Gemara (Sanhedrin 88b) records the Chazal mention a list of things for for and strive to live our own lives with a following: which the main reward is in Olam Haba sense of shleimus, and with the genuine איזהו בן עולם הבא? ענוותן ושפל ברך, שייף but which bears dividends in Olam sense of anavah that epitomized Rav עייל שייף נפיש, וגריס באורייתא תדירא, ולא .Yankelewitz’s life אלו דברים שאדם אוכל פירותיהם“—Hazeh מחזיק טיבותא לנפשיה. Rav May Rav Yankelewitz zt”l be a meilitz ”.בעולם הזה והקרן קיימת לעולם הבא “Who is a ben Olam Haba? One Yankelewitz was zoche through his yosher for his family, for his talmidim, for who is modest and humble, enters while maasim tovim to reap “peiros” in Olam our yeshiva, and for all of klal Yisrael. n bowing and leaves bowing, learns Torah Hazeh. He was zoche to the gift of arichas constantly, and does not take credit for yamim, with all of his wits about him oneself.”

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אבד חסיד מן הארץ מי יתן לנו תמורתו צר לנו מאוד על הסתלקותו של האי גברא רבא נעים הליכות ומידות אוצר כל כלי חמדה משרידי הדור הישן ומפליטת סופריהם ממעתיקי השמועה והמסורה זקן הרבנים מורנו הגאון רבי גרשון יענקלביץ זצ”ל ר”מ בישיבתנו קרוב לששים שנה השאיר אחריו דורות ישרים יבורכו בנים ובני בנים ותלמידים הרי הם כבנים למאות ולאלפים העניק להם מאור תורתו ומזוהר נתיבתו

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yaakov Deborah Schwartz on the and Gilda Angel. ‘79R and Peshi Neuburger Rabbi Uri ‘06R and Julie on marriage of their son, Maurice, the birth of a granddaughter, born Rabbi Hy ‘56R and Ann Goldstein on the birth of a to Dina Honick. Arbesfeld and Rabbi David daughter, Ayalah Nitzan. to Aryeh and Chaya Westreich, Rabbi Allen ‘86R and Alisa and to great-grandfather, Dean ‘58R and Anita Miller on Schwartz on the birth of a Rabbi Lee-Ad ‘10R and Shira Emeritus and Special Advisor to the birth of a great-grandson, granddaughter, Tehilla Chaya Gottleib on the birth of a the President on Yeshiva Affairs, Yehuda Leib, born to Sammy and Sarah, born to Moshe and Renee daughter, Shalva Yael. Rabbi Zevulun Charlop ‘54R. Dani Schertz. Schwartz. Rabbi Harris ‘63R and Judi Rabbi Meir ‘90R and Esther Rabbi Kenneth ‘78R and Rabbi Ari ‘10R and Naomi Guedalia on the birth of a Orlian on the birth of a Joanne Auman on the birth of a Schwarzberg on the birth of great-grandson, born to Gilat and granddaughter, Sophia, born to grandson, to Rabbi and Mrs. Tzvi a son, Simon Justin Ephraim Asher Sacks. Sara and Avrahami Rosenberg. Auman. Bunim Schwarzberg, and to the Rabbi Avi ‘03R and Shira And on the birth of a grandson, Rabbi Yaron ‘09R and Sara grandparents, Rabbi Ronald Heller on the Bar Mitzvah of born to Zvi and Zuria Orlian. Barach on the birth of a ‘83R and Judy Schwarzberg. their son, Nadav. Rabbi Uri ‘14YY and Nava daughter, Zissel Chaya. Rabbi Ronald ‘83R and Judy Rabbi Simcha ‘14YY and Sara Orlian on the birth of a son, Rabbi Michael ‘06R and Dr. Schwarzberg on the birth of a Hopkovitz on the birth of a son, Shimon. Debra Bashist on the birth of a granddaughter, Julia Belle, born Avigdor Shimon Zvi.. son, Mordechai. Max and Marion Grill Dean to Aviva and Phillip Reich. Rabbi Carmi ‘69R and Sara Rabbi Menachem ‘95R Rabbi Eli ‘10R and Rebecca Rabbi Yerachmiel (AA) and Horowitz on the birth of a and Adeena Penner on the Belizon on the birth of a Sheera Seplowitz on the birth grandson, to Amitai and Pe’er marriage of their daughter, daughter, Batsheva Esther. of a grandson, born to Nosson Horowitz. Elisheva, to Ben Langstein. Tzvi and Sara Seplowitz. Rabbi Joel ‘10R and Rabbi Aaron ‘10R and Molly Rabbi Menashe ‘08R and Chani Bloom on the birth Rabbi Simmy ‘10R and Katz on the birth of a daughter, Miriam Rosen on the birth of a of a daughter, Sarah, and to Devora Shabtai on the birth of Batsheva Rachel. daughter, Chaya. grandparents, Rabbi Allen ‘86R a daughter, Elisheva Sara. and Alisa Schwartz. 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And to Ayalah’s great- granddaughter, Chaya Lamm Rabbi Dr. Shimon ‘46R and on the marriage of their grandfather, Rabbi Dr. Bernard Shaindle, born to Mordy and grandson, Shmuel Lamm, to Beila Eckstein on the marriage Rosensweig ‘51R. Dassi Tiefenbrunn, and to Sara Lamar. of their granddaughter, Rebecca, grandparents Rabbi Moshe Rabbi Dr. Bernard (AA) and Baila Shulman. to Judah Orlinsky. Rabbi Stuart ‘80R and Rosensweig ‘51R on the Karen Lavenda Rabbi Avraham ‘12R and on the birth marriage of his grandson, Rabbi Elon ‘08R and Estee of a granddaughter, Adina Shoshana Engelson on the Netanel Amar, to Tamar Soniker on the birth of a son, Chaya, born to Tova and Avi birth of a son, Yehuda Aryeh, and Elmakias. Moshe Chaim. Rosenbloom. to grandparents, Rabbi Darren Rabbi Nachum ‘10R and Rabbi Moshe Strauch ‘98R on ‘86R and Brenda Blackstein. Rabbi Binyamin ‘11R and Orit Devorah Miriam Rybak on his marriage to Devora Widman. Lehrfield on the birth of a son, Rabbi Edward ‘71R and the birth of a son, Yaakov Dovid, Rabbi Moshe ‘14R and Shaya Zev. Miriam Feigelman on the birth and to grandparents, Rabbi Dr. Eliana Watson on the birth of a a grandson, Tzvi Yehuda, born to Rabbi Darren ‘13R and Avital Solomon ‘66R and Shoshana daughter, Tamar Tema. Shulem and Tikva Weinreich. Levin on the birth of a son, Rybak. David Yair.

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26 500 West 185th Street | New York,CHAVRUSA NY 10033• ELUL 5774 | 212.960.5277 | [email protected] תנו כבוד לתורה Yeshiva University - RIETS invites you to a Community Siyum Daf Yomi - for - Seder Moed Sunday, October 5, 2014 • 11 Tishrei, 5775 • 9:30-11 a.m. Glueck Center • Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus 515 West 185th St, New York, NY 10033 Last daf in Hadran and Introduction to Seder Moed Chizuk Seder Nashim Rabbi Hershel Rabbi Aryeh Rabbi Daniel Z. Schachter Lebowitz Feldman Rosh Yeshiva and Magid Shiur, YUTorah.org Rosh Yeshiva, RIETS Marcos and Adina Katz Program Director and Magid Rabbi, Ohr Saadya, Rosh Kollel, RIETS Shiur, Yeshivat Lev Shlomo Teaneck, NJ Rabbi, Beis HaKnesses of North Woodmere

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