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CHAVRUSA Volume 53 • Number 1 אין התורה נקנית אלא בחבורה (ברכות סג:) December 2019 • Kislev 5780 הנרות הללו A PUBLICATION OF THE RABBINIC ALUMNI OF THE RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY • AN AFFILIATE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY CHAVRUSA Volume 53 • Number 1 אין התורה נקנית אלא בחבורה (ברכות סג:) December 2019 • Kislev 5780 הנרות הללו From the Beit In Memorium Midrash Page 20 Page 18 In This Issue Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Page 3 In Pictures Elul 5779 in Yeshiva YU Giving Day Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman Yeshiva-Wide Melave Malka PRESIDENT, RIETS Dr. Richard M. Joel PRESIDENT-EMERITUS, RIETS Page 7 YU Community News Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm Day Dedicated to Torah Study Marks Start Of Impactful Year ROSH HAYESHIVA EMERITUS, RIETS of Learning, A Full Schedule of Elul Programming in Yeshiva, Mrs. Sivan Rahav-Meir at YU, Yeshiva University to Create New Rabbi Joel M. Schrieber Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center, Giving Day Campaign CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, RIETS 2019 Raises Over $5 Million, Educating Rabbinic Clergy for End- of-Life Issues, CJF’s 2019 Rebbetzins Yarchei Kallah Rabbi Menachem Penner MAX AND MARION GRILL DEAN RIETS TORAH STUDIES Page 12 Chomer Lidrush for chanukah Chanukah: The Chag of Torah SheB’al Peh Rabbi Zevulun Charlop Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh ’97R DEAN EMERITUS, RIETS Days of Joy: Exploring the Simcha of Chanukah SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT ON YESHIVA AFFAIRS Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky ’90R Rabbi Yaakov Glasser DAVID MITZNER DEAN, CENTER FOR THE JEWISH FUTURE AND UNIVERSITY LIFE Page 18 Halacha from the Beit Midrash Chanuka Rabbi Chaim Bronstein Edition ADMINISTRATOR, RIETS Selected Piskei Halacha from RIETS Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Hershel Schachter ’67R CHAVRUSA Compiled by Rabbi Ike Sultan ’17R A PUBLICATION OF RIETS RABBINIC ALUMNI Rabbi Dov Winston EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, CHAVRUSA Page 20 In Memoriam Menachem Lewin Rabbi Solomon Maimon Z”L ’44R PRODUCTION MANAGER, CHAVRUSA Rabbi Solomon Shoulson Z”L ’49R Ms. Keren Simon ASSISTANT EDITOR, CHAVRUSA Rabbi Naphtali Lavenda ASSISTANT EDITOR, CHAVRUSA Rabbi Robert Shur GRAPHICS AND LAYOUT, CHAVRUSA CHAVRUSA is published by the Rabbinic Alumni of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, through the office of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. 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