Yeshiva Toras Chaim[1][2] was an American Haredi Lithuanian-type boys' and men's yeshiva in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn that was "established by the pioneering Rabbi Isaac Shmidman" [1][3] in 1927.[4]
The full name of the Belmont Avenue location, reflecting both the lower grades and the high school, was Yeshiva and Mesivta Torahs Chaim of Greater New York.[3]
South Shore
editIn 1956 Binyamin Kamenetsky, who had taught at the Brooklyn location in the 1940s,[1] opened Yeshiva Toras Chaim of the South Shore,[5] "the first yeshiva on Long Island"[4][6] with Kamenetsky as its dean.[5][7]
"Seven years later, the two Jewish schools merged and moved to a new campus on William Street in Hewlett."[4] With the growth of the school came the need for another person to help run it; that person, Rabbi Chanina Herzberg, came with a unique approach to chinuch that was taught to him by his Rebbe, Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld. It focused on the greatness of each individual child, and the unlimited potential that every neshama possesses. Rabbi Herzberg was a master at cultivating each Jewish neshama. Under his leadership, the Yeshiva continued to thrive for nearly four decades that he was at the helm. Rabbi Herzberg passed away in 2018.[8]
Notable students
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Rav Binyamin Kamenetsky". The Jewish Press. May 3, 1917.
serving in the 1940s as first-grade rebbe in the Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York, Brooklyn
- ^ "Head of Agudath Israel, the Novominsker Rebbe, Succumbs to the Coronavirus at 89". The Jewish Press. April 7, 2020.
studied at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York
- ^ a b "History of Jewish Brownsville".
Under the guidance of Rabbi Isaac Shmidman, dean of Yeshiva and Mesivta Torahs Chaim .. 631 Belmont Avenue
- ^ a b c Jeff Bessen (November 14, 2019). "Lighting the way at Yeshiva of South Shore". Long Island Herald.
- ^ a b "Long Island Journal". New York Times. April 11, 1982.
THE Yeshiva Toras Chaim of the South Shore marked its 25th anniversary week ... Rabbi Benjamin Kamenetzky
- ^ Phyllis Bernstein (December 21, 1975). "Hewlett Yeshiva Is Facing Closing". New York Times.
the 250-student Yeshiva Toras Chaim at South Shore closed down temporarily for two days
- ^ Sharon Monahan (April 17, 1988). "Rental Rejection Annoys Yeshiva". New York Times.
- ^ Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky (December 18, 2018). "Rabbi Chanina Herzberg, ZT"L". Hamodia.
- ^ Matis Greenblatt (Spring 1991). "His Heart was The Heart of All Israel: Memories and Impressions of Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld" (PDF). Jewish Action (OU).
- ^ "Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, Head of Hasidic Dynasty in Brooklyn". New York Times. April 16, 2020.
He attended Yeshiva Toras Chaim and Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, N.J.
- Arnold J. Cohen; Max Cohen (1989). A History of the Jewish East New York of Yeshiva Toras Chaim.
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