Yitzchok (Isaac) Hutner (1906 - 1980) was an Orthodox rabbi and American rosh yeshiva born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger Hasidic and non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jewish roots. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized Rabbi (pronunciation, although in English usually) in Judaism, means a religious ‘teacher’ or more literally ‘my great one’ when addressing any master Rosh yeshiva, ( pl. Heb. Roshei yeshiva; Yeshivish Rosh yeshivas) (ראש ישיבה is the title given to the dean of Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Ger, or Gur (or Gerrer when used as an adjective is a Hasidic dynasty originating from Ger the Yiddish name of Góra Kalwaria Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, etc from the Hebrew: he '''''חסידות''''', Chassidus, meaning "piety" from the Hebrew Lithuanian Jews (known in Yiddish and Yeshivish as Litvish (adjective or Litvaks (noun are Ashkenazi Jews with roots in the As a child he received private instruction in Torah and Talmud. term " Torah " ( Hebrew: תּוֹרָה "teaching" or "instruction" sometimes translated as "Law" most commonly refers to The Talmud ( Hebrew: he תַּלְמוּד is a record of Rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history As a teenager he was enrolled in the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, headed by Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, where he was known as the "Warsaw Illui" ("prodigy"). Slabodka yeshiva, also known as Knesses Yisroel, and later as Hebron Yeshiva or Yeshivas Hevron, was known colloquially as the "mother of Yeshivas Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the Nosson Zvi (Nota Hirsh Finkel (1849-1927 was born in Lithuania and died in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Early years
Having obtained a deep grounding in Talmud, Rabbi Hutner was sent to join an extension of the Slabodka yeshiva in Hebron. The Talmud ( Hebrew: he תַּלְמוּד is a record of Rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history Hebron ( al-Ḫalīl or al-Khalīl, Standard Hebrew: Ḥevron Tiberian Hebrew: Ḥeḇrôn is the largest city in the West Bank, located in the south He studied there until 1929, narrowly escaping the 1929 Hebron massacre because he was away for the weekend. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Hebron Massacre refers to the Mass murder of sixty-seven Jews on 23 and 24 August, 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British It was during his stay in the British Mandate of Palestine that he became a disciple of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first chief rabbi of Palestine (as it was then known. The Palestine Mandate, was a set of protocols or articles that formed a multilateral legal and administrative agreement Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935 was the first Ashkenazi Chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular ) The philosophical and mystical mind-set of both men, made them kindred spirits. Like Rabbi Kook, the young Rabbi Hutner eventually developed a warm welcoming posture towards non-religious Jews who were seeking to become more religious. They viewed things in the context of the end of the Jewish exile, golus (galut), with the imminent coming of the messianic era. The Jewish diaspora ( Hebrew: Tefutzah, "scattered" or Galut גלות "exile" Yiddish: tfutses) the presence Messiah ( משיח; mashiah, moshiah, mashiach, or moshiach, ("anointed " is a term used in the Hebrew Bible
In later years, when Rabbi Kook's name became entrenched with the Mizrachi, part of the Religious Zionist Movement, Rabbi Hutner, as an eventual member of the non-Zionist Haredi Agudath Israel of America's Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah ("Council of Torah Sages"), sought to decrease his former association with Kook, even though he maintained cordial relations with Rabbi Kook's son and heir Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook and others such as Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neriah. The Mizrachi (המזרחי HaMizrahi, an acronym for Merkaz Ruhani lit Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement (a branch of which is also called Mizrachi) is an ideology that combines Zionism and religious Haredi or Chareidi Judaism is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. Agudath Israel of America (or Agudas Yisroel of America or Agudat Yisrael of America or simply the Agudah is [[Hebrew language|Hebrew] for "gathering" The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (also abbreviated as Moetzes or The Moetzes) מועצת גדולי התורה ("Council of Torah Sages" is the name for the Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891-1982 was a Rabbi, leader of Religious Zionism (usually associated with the Hardal movement in Israel) and Rosh Yeshiva For example, when Rabbi Hutner first published his work the Toras HaNazir in Europe in the early 1930s he obtained and printed in it approbations (haskamos) from both Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski and Rabbi Kook. Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (1863-1940 was a world renowned pre-war Dayan, Posek and Talmudic scholar in Vilna. However when he republished the work again in the early 1970s, no approbation from Kook was included. Allegedly, it was later reprinted in the late 1970s without his permission by an Israeli publishing house, and only Rabbi Grodzinski's approbation was included. Rabbi Hutner was still alive at the time and he communicated his displeasure to the offending publisher. A high price was offered by Abraham Fruchthandler (Rabbi Hutner's main financial backer and the future President of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin) for any old edition with Rabbi Kook's original letter in it to remove any public awareness of Rabbi Hutner's official ties to Rabbi Kook. Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin (also known as Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, or Chaim Berlin, is a major Haredi Yeshiva located in Brooklyn Similarly, Rabbi Hutner's students recount that on Sukkot Rabbi Hutner would hang a portrait of Rabbi Kook in his sukkah. Sukkot ( also known as Succoth, Sukkos, Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles) is a Biblical Pilgrimage See also Sukkot A sukkah is a temporary dwelling that Jews use during the holiday of Sukkot. When the matter of conscripting religious girls (giyus banot) into the Israel Defense Forces became a controversial matter after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the photo of Rabbi Kook was removed and replaced with one of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz who ruled that Jewish females are forbidden to serve in the IDF. The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) (צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, lit For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, (1878-1953 popularly known by the name of his Magnum opus Chazon Ish, was a Belarusian born Orthodox Rabbi Finally, when Rabbi Hutner composed and published his work Pachad Yitzchok there is absolutely no overt reference to any of Rabbi Kook's own extensive works (although Rabbi Kook's notions and motifs permeate Rabbi Hutner's work to those familiar with both rabbis' writings. ) However, there are a select few of Rabbi Hutner's early students who recall some of Rabbi Hutner's lengthy comments to them regarding Rabbi Kook, but none of them have ever written or said anything about what was said to them in a public forum. It has remained for the Religious Zionist teacher, Rabbi Moshe Zvi Neriah to republish the approbation that Rabbi Kook had written and some correspondence between Rabbis Kook and Hutner about it. Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement (a branch of which is also called Mizrachi) is an ideology that combines Zionism and religious
Travels and marriage
After the pogrom in Hebron in 1929, Rabbi Hutner spent some years as a wandering scholar. First, he returned to Warsaw, from there going to study philosophy at the University of Berlin, but not for degree purposes; he was not interested in degrees or the jobs they could offer, but only in the actual material that the university taught him. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language During this period he wrote Torat HaNazir, on the laws of the Nazarite. A nazirite or nazarite, (in Hebrew: נזיר nazir) refers to a Jew who took the Ascetic vow described in. He spent time familiarizing himself with the intellectual milieu of Germany.
He befriended two other future rabbinical leaders studying secular philosophy in Berlin: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, who was to become rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University in New York City, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who would become rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn. Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik (יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ'יק was an American Orthodox Rabbi, Talmudist and modern Rosh yeshiva, ( pl. Heb. Roshei yeshiva; Yeshivish Rosh yeshivas) (ראש ישיבה is the title given to the dean of Yeshiva University is a private Jewish University in New York City whose first component was founded in 1886. The City of New York Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( April 18 1902 – June 12 1994) known as The Rebbe, was a prominent Hasidic Rabbi Rebbe (רבי (pronounced in English which means master teacher or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew word Rabbi Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic movements in Orthodox Judaism, and is based in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. The three were to retain close and cordial personal relations throughout their lives, even though each differed from the other radically in Torah weltanschauung (hashkafa). A comprehensive world view (or worldview) is a term Calqued from the German word Weltanschauung ( Welt is the German Hashkafa (השקפה is a Hebrew term often used when referring to ones personal Jewish philosophy. Nevertheless, each developed a unique bridge and synthesis between the Eastern European world-view connecting it with a Westernized way of thinking. Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. Western culture (sometimes equated with Western Civilization) are terms which are used to refer to Cultures of European origin This was a key factor enabling them to serve successfully as spiritual leaders in the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
After marrying his American-born wife, Masha Lipshitz, in Warsaw, Poland, in 1932, the couple spent about a year in Palestine where Rabbi Hutner completed his research and writing of his Kovetz Ha'aros on Hillel ben Eliakim's commentary on midrash sifra. Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Hillel ben Eliakim, known in Hebrew to Talmud scholars as Rabbeinu Hillel, ( "Our Rabbi Hillel") was a Jewish Midrash ( Hebrew: מדרש plural midrashim, lit "to repeat" is a Hebrew term referring to the not exact but comparative ( homiletic Sifra ( Aramaic: סִפְרָא) is the Halakic midrash to Leviticus. He visited Europe in 1934 to collate manuscripts of Hillel ben Eliakim's commentary.
By 1935 the couple had emigrated to Brooklyn, New York where Rabbi Hutner pursued his private studies, initially not actively seeking a formal position. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous However, he soon joined the faculty of the Yeshiva Rabbi Jacob Joseph (RJJ) and sometime between 1935 - 1936 was appointed first as a teacher then as principal of the newly established high school division of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin known as Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin (also known as Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, or Chaim Berlin, is a major Haredi Yeshiva located in Brooklyn Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin (also known as Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, or Chaim Berlin, is a major Haredi Yeshiva located in Brooklyn The yeshiva had been the oldest elementary yeshiva in Brooklyn since 1904. During 1939 and 1940 he established the yeshiva's post-high school beth midrash division and became the senior rosh yeshivah of the entire Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Beth Midrash ( Hebrew: בית מדרש; also Beis Medrash, Beit Midrash, pl Rosh yeshiva, ( pl. Heb. Roshei yeshiva; Yeshivish Rosh yeshivas) (ראש ישיבה is the title given to the dean of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin (also known as Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, or Chaim Berlin, is a major Haredi Yeshiva located in Brooklyn In this effort he also received the help of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz who headed Brooklyn's largest and more established Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz ( 1886 - 7 September 1948) was an early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such Yeshiva Torah Vodaas (or Mesivta Torah Vodaas) is a Yeshiva located in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York Under Rabbi Hutner's charismatic leadership, Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin grew from relative obscurity to prominence, and with it grew his reputation in the world of Torah scholarship.
In the United States
He was able to construct an intense curriculum and an environment that produced young Talmudic scholars who were viewed as being in the same league as their compatriots in Eastern Europe. In formal education a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their content offered at a School or University. By 1940 he had established a post-high school yeshiva, beth midrash with hundreds of students. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Yeshiva or yeshivah (jəʃi'və ( Hebrew: ישיבה "sitting (n Beth Midrash ( Hebrew: בית מדרש; also Beis Medrash, Beit Midrash, pl
He viewed secular studies as essential in learning a profession for people to support themselves by eventually going to college and becoming professionals. Together with the dean of the Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz a charter to set up a combined yeshiva and college was obtained from the New York State Board of Regents. Yeshiva Torah Vodaas (or Mesivta Torah Vodaas) is a Yeshiva located in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz ( 1886 - 7 September 1948) was an early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such History The Board of Regents of the USNY was established by statute in 1784 to provide oversight to King's College (today known as Columbia University) a private institution However, this plan was abandoned upon the insistence of Rabbi Aaron Kotler the anti-secular leader of the Lakewood yeshiva (Beth Medrash Gevoha), which would become the largest yeshiva of its kind in the United States, who wielded great influence and rabbinical power. Rabbi Aharon (or Ahroyn Aaron Aron Kotler (1891 - 1962 was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the Beth Medrash Govoha ( Hebrew: he בית מדרש גבוה is the largest Talmudical Academy in the United States and one of the largest in the world In this and other matters Rabbi Hutner acquiesced to Rabbi Kotler.
Hutner however maintained his relatively liberal policy during his tenure at the helm of his own Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, allowing students to combine their day's learning in yeshiva together with attending college, mainly at Brooklyn College and later at Touro College in late afternoons and evenings. Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn New York. Touro College is a Jewish sponsored independent institution of higher and professional education, in New York City, New York, United He would take great pride in the secular accomplishments of his students insofar as they would fit into his vision of a material world governed by the principles of a spiritual Torah way of life. term " Torah " ( Hebrew: תּוֹרָה "teaching" or "instruction" sometimes translated as "Law" most commonly refers to One of his closest disciples is the renowned economist, Rabbi Israel Kirzner who edited Hutner's written works, Pachad Yitzchok. An economist is an expert in the Social science of Economics. Israel Meir Kirzner ( Yisroel Mayer Kirzner) (born February 13, 1930) is a leading economist in the Austrian School. Many of Hutner's disciples went about quietly obtaining doctorates often with his blessings and guidance, including his daughter Rebbetzin Dr. Rebbitzin (רביצין in Yiddish, or Rabbanit in Hebrew) is the title used for the wife of a Rabbi, typically from the Orthodox, Bruria Hutner David (philosophy). Bruria David, (born 1936 daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner ( Rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin) and is the current dean of Beth Jacob Jerusalem The list includes Rabbis Shlomo Teichman (mathematics) founder and dean of Bais Yaakov Academy, Shlomo Braunstein (statistics) rosh yeshiva and principal, Shlomo Ribner (psychology) psychologist and rosh yeshiva, Moshe Homnick (psychology), Ahron Soloveichik (law) rosh yeshiva, Aharon Lichtenstein (literature) rosh yeshiva, Dr Abraham J. Rabbi Ahron (Aaron Soloveichik;( May 1, 1917 - October 4 2001) was a renowned scholar of Talmud Halakha and a Rosh Aharon Lichtenstein (born May 24, 1933) is a noted Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Rosh yeshiva. Tannenbaum (education), Joseph Thurm (information technology), Naftoli Langsam (education), Yedidya Langsam (biology), Chaim Feuerman (education). Many alumni of his yeshiva have attained success as attorneys, accountants, doctors, and in information technology.
Rabbi Hutner was well versed in many intellectual areas, even studying and refuting secular and non-traditional Jewish scholarship. There was an interesting episode where a student made a remark about some religious issue. Rabbi Hutner allegedly slapped him and said, "You read that in Heschel!"
His daughter and only child, Rebbetzin Bruria Hutner David, obtained her Ph.D. at Columbia University in the department of philosophy as a student of Salo Baron. Abraham Joshua Heschel ( January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Warsaw-born American Rabbi and one of the leading Rebbitzin (רביצין in Yiddish, or Rabbanit in Hebrew) is the title used for the wife of a Rabbi, typically from the Orthodox, Bruria David, (born 1936 daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner ( Rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin) and is the current dean of Beth Jacob Jerusalem "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Salo Wittmayer Baron, Salo Baron ( May 26, 1895, Tarnów, Galicia - November 25, 1989, New York City She subsequently founded and became the dean of a major seminary for Jewish women in Jerusalem known as Beth Jacob of Jerusalem (BJJ) that caters to young women from Haredi families in the United States. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the Haredi or Chareidi Judaism is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. Her dissertation discussed the dual role of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes as both a traditionalist and maskil ("follower of the enlightenment"). Zvi Hirsch Chajes ( Hebrew: צבי הירש חיות - November 20, 1805 - October 12, 1855; also Chayes or Haskalah ( Hebrew: השכלה "enlightenment" "education" from sekhel " Intellect " "mind") the Jewish Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment is a term used to describe a phase in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century Some have noted the remarkable parallels between her own father and Rabbi Chajes, the subject of her dissertation.
Rabbi Hutner appointed Slabodka yeshiva educated Rabbi Avigdor Miller as the Mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual mentor and supervisor") of the yeshiva. Slabodka yeshiva, also known as Knesses Yisroel, and later as Hebron Yeshiva or Yeshivas Hevron, was known colloquially as the "mother of Yeshivas Avigdor Miller (1908-2001 was a Haredi Rabbi, author and lecturer in the United States. Mashgiach Ruchani ( Hebrew משגיח רוחני) or mashgiach for short means a spiritual supervisor or guide After the yeshiva relocated to Far Rockaway, New York in the 1960's, Rabbi Miller resigned from his position due to the difficulties a daily commute from Brooklyn entailed.
Rabbi Hutner developed a style of celebrating Shabbat and the Holy Days, Yom Tov, by giving a kind of talk called a maamer. Shabbat or Shabbos ( Hebrew: שַׁבָּת, shabbāt, shabbes, "rest/inactivity" is the Weekly Sabbath For the Gregorian dates of Jewish Holidays see Jewish holidays 2000-2050. It was a combination of Talmudic discourse, Hasidic celebration (tish), philosophic lecture, group singing, and when possible, like on Purim, a ten piece band was brought in as accompaniment. A tish (from Yiddish: 'table' is a Hasidic gathering of Hassidim around their Rebbe. Purim ( Hebrew: פורים Pûrîm " lots " related to Akkadian pūru) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates Many times there was singing and dancing all night. All of this, together with the respect to his authority that he demanded, induced in his students obedience and something of a "heightened consciousness" that passed into their lives making them into literal hasidim ("devotees") of their rosh yeshiva, who encouraged this by eventually personally donning Hasidic garb, (begadim) and acting outwardly like a synthesis between a rosh yeshiva and a rebbe and instructed some of his students to do like-wise. Rosh yeshiva, ( pl. Heb. Roshei yeshiva; Yeshivish Rosh yeshivas) (ראש ישיבה is the title given to the dean of Rosh yeshiva, ( pl. Heb. Roshei yeshiva; Yeshivish Rosh yeshivas) (ראש ישיבה is the title given to the dean of Rebbe (רבי (pronounced in English which means master teacher or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew word Rabbi
Methodology
His methodology and style was complex and controversial and ultimately difficult to pigeonhole, although intellectually he placed great emphasis on penetrating Talmudic study and analysis, emotionally he veered towards the Hasidic-style, more than his Lithuanian-style colleagues reared as "mitnagdim" could tolerate. Misnagdim or mitnagdim is a Hebrew word ( מתנגדים) meaning "opponents" Ironically, Rabbi Hutner became a fierce critic of Lubavitch and the idolization of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( April 18 1902 – June 12 1994) known as The Rebbe, was a prominent Hasidic Rabbi Yet both men referred to their discourses as maamarim. He also forbade his students from attending any lectures given by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik at the same time that he appointed Rabbi Soloveitchik's younger brother, whom he had tutored in Warsaw, Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik (later to head his own yeshiva in Skokie near Chicago, Illinois) as head of his own Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik (יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ'יק was an American Orthodox Rabbi, Talmudist and modern Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Rabbi Ahron (Aaron Soloveichik;( May 1, 1917 - October 4 2001) was a renowned scholar of Talmud Halakha and a Rosh Skokie (formerly Niles Center is a Village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik completed a Doctorate in law at New York University at the same time that he lectured in Rabbi Hutner's Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. A doctorate is an Academic degree that indicates the highest level of academic achievement Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City.
In the 1950s, he established a school for post-graduate married scholars to continue their in-depth Talmudical studies. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive This was a kollel, (a post graduate division), the Kollel Gur Aryeh, one of the first of its kind in America. A kollel (כולל "a gathering/collection scholars" (plural kollelim is an institute for advanced studies of the Talmud and of Rabbinic literature for Kollel Gur Aryeh is a Kollel, a post-graduate Rabbinical and Talmudical college for young married Orthodox men located in Brooklyn New York Many of his students became prominent educational, outreach, and pulpit rabbis. He stayed in touch with them and was intimately involved in major communal policy decision-making as he worked through his network of students in positions of leadership, and won over to his cause people who came to meet with him.
Publications
He published what is considered his magnum opus which he named Pachad Yitzchok, ("Fear [of] Isaac", meaning the God whom Isaac feared). According to the Hebrew Bible, Isaac ( Hebrew: Yitzchak יִצְחָק, Standard Yiẓḥaq He called his outlook Hilchot Deot Vechovot Halevavot, ("Laws [of] 'Ideas' and 'Duties [of the] Heart'") and wrote in a poetic modern-style Hebrew reminiscent of his original mentor's style, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, even though almost all of Rabbi Hutner's original lectures were delivered in Yiddish. Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935 was the first Ashkenazi Chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yiddish (yi [[wiktייִדיש ייִדיש]] yidish or yi [[wiktאידיש אידיש]] idish, literally "Jewish" is a nonterritorial High
The core of his synthesis of different schools of Jewish thought was rooted in his deep studies of the teachings of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525-1609) a scholar and mystic known as the Maharal of Prague. Judah Loew ben Bezalel ("Judah Loewe son of Bezalel" also written as Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai '''Loewe''' '''Löwe''' 1525 &ndash Thursday 7 September Prague (ˈprɑːg Praha (ˈpraɦa see also other names) is the Capital and Largest city of the Czech Republic. It is commonly accepted that Rabbi Hutner "opened up" and "popularized" the writings and ideas of the Maharal. Another pillar of Rabbi Hutner's thought system were the works of the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Elijah, (1720-1797) and of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746). Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman, known as the Vilna Gaon or Elijah of Vilna and simply by his Hebrew Acronym Gra (" G aon Year 1720 ( MDCCXX) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Moshe Chaim Luzzatto ( Hebrew: משה חיים לוצאטו, also Moses Chaim, Moses Hayyim, also Luzzato) (1707-1746 (26 Iyar Year 1707 ( MDCCVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1746 ( MDCCXLVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a He would only allude in the most general ways to other great mystics, in Hebrew mekubalim, such as the Baal Shem Tov (founder of Hasidism), the great mystic known as the Ari who lived in the late Middle Ages, the founder of Lubavitch Hasidism, the Baal HaTanya Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbitz and many other great Hasidic masters as well as to the great works of Kabbalah such as the Zohar. Rabbi Yisroel (Israel ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר August 27, 1698 (18 Elul &ndash May 22, 1760) often called Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534 – July 25 1572) was a Jewish mystic in Safed. Note Tanya Rabbati, a 16th century Italian code of Jewish law, is an unrelated work with a similar name Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( שניאור זלמן מליאדי) ( September 4, 1745 – December 15, 1812 O Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbica (איזשביצא איזביצא Izhbitse Izbitse) (1801-1854 was a Hasidic thinker and founder of the Izhbitzer dynasty Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה lit "receiving" is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mystical aspect of Judaism. For the village in southern Israel see Tzohar The Zohar (זהר lit Splendor or Radiance) is widely considered the most important
Mentor to others
He was the mentor of some famous as well as controversial figures in modern Jewish outreach to non-Orthodox Jews, such as Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who became the "Singing Rabbi", and Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, who became a prominent scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Conservative Judaism. For the article on the Mashgiach ruchani of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin located in Brooklyn, New York City, see Shlomo Carlebach (rabbi David Weiss Halivni (1927- is an American Israeli world-acclaimed scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud,born Conservative Judaism (also known as Masorti Judaism in Israel and Europe) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out However, it should be noted that both these personalities split with Rabbi Hutner and moved off into what they ultimately became. Another was a cousin to the earlier Shlomo Carlebach, who also was called Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who was appointed as the mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual supervisor") at the Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, but who split with Rabbi Hutner on policy matters in the 1970s. Shlomo Carlebach (Salomon Peter Carlebach (b August 17, 1925 in Hamburg, Germany) (not to be confused with his cousin, the well Mashgiach Ruchani ( Hebrew משגיח רוחני) or mashgiach for short means a spiritual supervisor or guide This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. All three were Holocaust survivors who Rabbi Hutner took upon himself to raise as his own "sons" together with others in similar circumstances. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as
In the early forties Rabbi Hutner asked a friend from Slabodka, Rabbi Saul Lieberman to become a dean-Talmudical lecturer in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Saul Lieberman (May 28 1898 - March 23 1983 also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or The Gra"sh ( G aon Ra bbeinu Sh aul Lieberman instead accepted an offer from the Jewish Theological Seminary, the seminary of Conservative Judaism. Conservative Judaism (also known as Masorti Judaism in Israel and Europe) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out
Rabbi Hutner had a number of disagreements with some of the religious scholars who taught in his Yeshiva. These disputes were usually not over ideology, but about positions in the school. Rabbi Hutner attempted (and did in many cases) ease out the older rabbis who were his contemporaries in favor of his disciples. Rabbi Prusskin (a first cousin to his wife), Rabbi Goldstone, Rabbi Shurkin, Rabbi Snow, Rabbi Avrohom Asher Zimmerman and others are among them.
He did initiate a number of changes in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin that differed greatly from the mussar yeshiva practice in Slabodka. Mussar movement refers to a Jewish ethical, educational and cultural movement (a "Jewish Moralist Movement" that developed in 19th century Orthodox He abolished the half hour learning session in mussar ("ethics") and replaced it with one of ten or fifteen minutes. He changed the traditional mussar lecture to a maamar utilizing Maharal instead of the classical mussar approach to Torah study. Torah study is the study by Jewish people of the Torah, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, Responsa, Rabbinic literature and similar
His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David (his son-in-law) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin; Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel; Menachem Mendel Blachman, head of the overseas program of Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Rabbi Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series; Shlomo Freifeld who set up the one of the first full-time yeshivas for Baal teshuva students in the world, and who personally maintained an open relationship with Lubavitch; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park; Noah Weinberg founder and head of the Baal teshuva outreach conglomerate called Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema'an Achai'; Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology. Yonasan Dovid David (also known as Jonathan Dovid David) is the Rosh yeshiva ("dean" of Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok and Kollel Ohr Eliyahu Aaron Moshe Schechter (also Aharon Mosheh Schechter) is the Rosh yeshiva ("dean" of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and its post-graduate Rosh yeshiva, ( pl. Heb. Roshei yeshiva; Yeshivish Rosh yeshivas) (ראש ישיבה is the title given to the dean of Aharon Lichtenstein (born May 24, 1933) is a noted Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Rosh yeshiva. Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik (יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ'יק was an American Orthodox Rabbi, Talmudist and modern Rosh yeshiva, ( pl. Heb. Roshei yeshiva; Yeshivish Rosh yeshivas) (ראש ישיבה is the title given to the dean of Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE ( Hebrew: ישיבת הר עציון) commonly known as " Gush," is a Hesder Yeshiva located in Alon Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh (ישיבת כרם ביבנה lit Vineyard in Yavne Yeshiva) is a major Yeshiva in Israel near the city of Ashdod and Pinchas Stolper is a prominent Orthodox Rabbi, writer and has been a spokesman for Orthodoxy through his writings and books popularizing Orthodox Judaism The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA more popularly known as the Orthodox Union, or OU, is one of the oldest Orthodox Jewish National Conference of Synagogue Youth ( NCSY) is an Modern Orthodox Jewish youth group sponsored by the See also Repentance in Judaism Baal teshuva ( Hebrew: he בעל תשובה; for a woman he בעלת תשובה baalat/baalas teshuva; Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools (or Torah Umesorah תורה ומסורה is an Orthodox Jewish organization that fosters and promotes Yeshiva of Far Rockaway (also known as Yeshiva Derech Ayson דרך איתן and Derech Ayson Rabbinical Seminary) is a Haredi Yeshiva located Rabbi Yaakov Perlow is a Hasidic Rebbe and Rosh yeshiva living in Boro Park Brooklyn. Rebbe (רבי (pronounced in English which means master teacher or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew word Rabbi Borough Park (usually spelled by its residents Boro Park) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New Rabbi Noah Weinberg (born 1930 in New York is the founder and Rosh yeshiva ("dean" of the Aish HaTorah See also Repentance in Judaism Baal teshuva ( Hebrew: he בעל תשובה; for a woman he בעלת תשובה baalat/baalas teshuva; Aish HaTorah ("Fire of the Torah" is an Orthodox organization and Yeshiva. Rabbi (Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg (1923-1999 was the Rosh yeshiva of a major American Yeshiva, Ner Israel in Baltimore Maryland Yeshivas Ner Yisroel ( Ner Israel Rabbinical College) (also known as NIRC) is a Yeshiva in Baltimore Maryland
Final years
In the late 1960s he began to visit Israel again planning to build a new yeshiva there. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. In 1970 he, together with his wife, daughter and son-in-law Rabbi Yonasan David, were captured by the PFLP Palestinian terrorist organization, who were in turn attacked by King Hussein's army in Amman, Jordan where the hostages found themselves after being let off the planes that were hijacked. Yonasan Dovid David (also known as Jonathan Dovid David) is the Rosh yeshiva ("dean" of Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok and Kollel Ohr Eliyahu The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP) ( Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Tahrīr Hussein bin Talal King of Jordan (حسين بن طلال Ḥusayn bin Ṭalāl) ( November 14, 1935 – February 7, 1999) was Amman (ɑˈmɑːn sometimes spelled Ammann ( Arabic عمان ʿAmmān) is the Capital city of the Hashemite Kingdom Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (الأردنّ al-Urdunn) is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern Many Jews prayed fervently for his safe release. Indeed, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Agudath Israel of America, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Rabbi Menachem Schneerson pulled every political string they possessed to ensure his safety. Moshe Feinstein ( March 3, 1895 – March 23, 1986) was a Lithuanian Orthodox Rabbi, scholar and Posek Agudath Israel of America (or Agudas Yisroel of America or Agudat Yisrael of America or simply the Agudah is [[Hebrew language|Hebrew] for "gathering" Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik (יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ'יק was an American Orthodox Rabbi, Talmudist and modern Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( April 18 1902 – June 12 1994) known as The Rebbe, was a prominent Hasidic Rabbi
In spite of this experience, Rabbi Hutner continued his efforts to build his yeshiva in Israel. Eventually it was set up and named Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok based on his life's work, in Har Nof, Jerusalem. Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok is a Yeshiva that was established in Jerusalem, Israel in the late 1970s by Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner. Har Nof (הר נוף lit scenic mountain) is a neighborhood on a hillside on the western boundary of Jerusalem, Israel, with a population of 20000 residents Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the He died in 1980 and is buried in Jerusalem. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the
See also
External links
- "Great leaders of our people"
- 20 years since his passing I
- 20 years since his passing II (PDF)
- Terror in Black September: An Eyewitness Account about 1970 hijacking mentioning Rabbi Hutner's captivity
- A master teaches his disciple about the value of small gestures
- Lecture on Rosh HaShana based on Rabbi Hutner's teachings
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