Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin

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History

Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin was established in 1904 as Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim in Brownsville, Brooklyn, by Jews who moved there from the Lower East Side of New York City,[1] thus making it the oldest yeshiva in Kings County.[2] At the suggestion of Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan), it was renamed in 1914 for his brother, Chaim Berlin, Chief Rabbi of Moscow and later Jerusalem, and who had also served in Valozhyn, from where several of the yeshiva's founders came.[1][3] Through the help of philanthropist Jacob Rutstein,[4] in 1940 the yeshiva purchased the seven-story former Municipal Bank Building at Pitkin and Stone Avenues[5] (now Mother Gaston Boulevard) in Brownsville.[6]

Leadership

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Aaron Schechter (white beard) celebrating Purim in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin during the late 1970s.

The founding Rosh Yeshiva, Yitzchok Hutner joined the faculty during 1936–1937, and gave monthly lectures as rosh yeshiva from 1943 to 1980. In the late 1970s, a branch was opened in Jerusalem called Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok (Fear of Isaac).[7]

After Hutner's death, the New York yeshiva was headed by his disciple Aaron Schechter, and the Jerusalem branch was headed by his son-in-law Yonason David,[7] who also serves nominally as co-head of the New York branch. When Schechter died in 2023, the leadership of the yeshiva passed to his son-in-law Shlomo Halioua.[8] Halioua died on 27 October 2024 after leading the yeshiva for only a year and a half.[9] The leadership then passed jointly to Halioua's son Yosef Halioua and son-in-law Tzvi Fink.[10]

The position of mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) has been held by (among others) Rabbis Avigdor Miller,[11] Shlomo Freifeld,[12] Shlomo Carlebach, Shimon Groner, and Mordechai Zelig Shechter (a son of Aaron). It has been vacant since the latter's passing in September 2023.

Divisions

Chaim Berlin consists of a preschool, a yeshiva ketana (elementary school), a mesivta (high school), a college-level beth midrash, and Kollel Gur Aryeh, its post-graduate kollel division. Total enrollment for all divisions approaches 2,000 students.[13] The mesivta acts as a feeder school for the beth midrash.[14][15] For a time, while located in Far Rockaway,[16] the mesivta was headed by Shlomo Freifeld.[17]

The yeshiva maintains a summer location, Camp Morris, in Sullivan County, New York.[18] The Yeshiva also runs a summer youth program with the name Chaim Day Camp.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni include many who served in rabbinic capacities throughout the world.

See also

References

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  1. ↑ a b (May 14, 1964) "Yeshiva Fire Loss Is $150,000; Brooklyn School Not Insured", The New York Times. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
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  8. ↑ Rudomin, Yitschak (August 27, 2023) "The Passing of Rav Aaron Schechter, a Chief Disciple of Rav Yitzchok Hutner", Arutz Sheva. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
  9. ↑ Yeshiva World News (October 27, 2024) "SHOCKING PETIRA: Rosh Yeshivas Chaim Berlin, Hagaon HaRav Shlomo Halioua ZT”L Niftar"
  10. ↑ Yeshiva World News (November 4, 2024)
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  15. ↑ Perkal, Harry (November 20, 2017) "Confessions Of A Chaim Berlin Yeshiva Graduate", The Forward
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  17. ↑ a b "Shlomo Freifeld, Rabbi, 66", The New York Times, October 8, 1990. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Rabbi Freifeld was born in Brooklyn and was a disciple of Rabbi Isaac Hutner at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin. He later became dean of men there before founding Sh'or Yoshuv in 1967."
  18. ↑ Feuerman, Alter Yisrael Shimon (September 25, 2013) "Remember the Often Invisible Non-Jews Who Help the Jewish World Function", Tablet. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  19. ↑ "Petirah of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt'l, Former Mashgiach at Yeshivas Chaim Berlin", Yeshiva World News, July 21, 2022. Accessed September 19, 2023. "YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt'l, the former mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabeinu Chaim Berlin. He was 96."
  20. ↑ Reb Shlomo Carlebach Biography, Shlomo Carlebach Foundation. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Shlomo also studied at the Chaim Berlin Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and in 1954, received rabbinic ordination from its Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzhak Hutner."
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  22. ↑ Berger, Joseph (July 17, 2022) "David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94", The New York Times. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Although he knew no English, his reputation as a Talmudic scholar had reached Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, which invited him to undertake advanced Talmud study."
  23. ↑ Winer, Stuart (February 10, 2013) "Liberal Rabbi-philosopher David Hartman Dies", The Times of Israel. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Born in 1931 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, Hartman attended Yeshiva Chaim Berlin and the Lubavitch Yeshiva."
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