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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Rabbi Ephraim Mordechai Levin to Succeed His Father as Rosh Yeshiva of Telze Chicago - We Must Ask - Is The Son The Most Qualified Person For The Job?

A Yeshiva Built With Public Funds - Does The Family Get To Choose Who Leads The Yeshiva? Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz ztvk"l said a resounding no!

This is not a new thought - The same question was asked of the yeshiva in Volozhin.

CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP: A FAMILY AFFAIR

After Rabbi Hayyim’s death in 1821, the leadership of the institution was taken over by his son, Rabbi Yitzhak Berlin (1780-1849). For the next decades, the yeshiva remained a family business. Rabbi Yitzhak’s death caused his son-in-law, R. Eliezer Yitzhak (1809-1853) to become rosh yeshiva and when he died, the mantle of leadership passed to his younger son in-law, Naftali Zevi Yehuda Berlin, the Netziv who governed it for four decades.

Secular Studies & Volozhin - The Entire Story!

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/volozhin-the-rise-and-demise-of-the-mother-of-all-yeshivas/

Mazel Tov - Rabbi Hershel Schachter!

CLICK ABOVE PHOTO! Rabbi Moshe Feinstein states the very marriage of a gentile woman to a non observant Jew, is equivalent to an open declaration that she will not observe the precepts. This is so, because it is highly unlikely that the gentile member of such a union, will be more committed to Judaism than her remiss Jewish husband (certainly when they are living together prior to their marriage). Unlike mental or tacit negations, explains Rav Feinstein, open declarations do invalidate conversions. When such cases appear before a rabbinical court, its members actually become witnesses to an acceptance declaration that is not sincere. Therefore, it is no longer a tacit insincerity, but rather an obvious one. As such, they are forbidden to sanction the conversion. Regardless of what this Jewish court may declare, the conversion is invalid and the person is not deemed a member of the Jewish nation. In Iggros Moshe, Letters of Moshe (Yoreh De’ah, no. 157), he writes that “According to the Law, it is certain that one who converts for the sake of marriage, does not intend to keep the commandments, and is not a proselyte at all.”

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Rabbi Ephraim Mordechai Levin to Succeed His Father as Rosh Yeshiva of Telze Chicago - We Must Ask - Is The Son The Most Qualified Person For The Job?