Reb Shraga Feivel: The Life and Times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitzs, the Architect of Torah in America

Machine Generated Contents Note: Publisher's Preface 7 -- Acknowledgmnents 11 -- Introduction 15 -- 1 Youth 27 -- Childhood / Chust / Unsdorf / Pressburg -- 2 An Eye To The Future 36 -- Marriage / Charting A Course -- 3 America 41 -- Scranton / Melamed / Plan For The Future / Reunited -- 4 In A Place Where There Is No Man50 -- Dos Yiddishe Licht / Kesher Chizuk Hadas / Battle In The Realm Of Ideas -- 5 Yeshivah Torah Vodaath: A Miracle 63 -- Early Jewish Education / Binyamin Wilhelm / A Lonely Crusade / Reb -- Shraga Feivel Comes To Torah Vodaath -- 6 The Mesivta -- Another Miracle 76 -- An Idea Whose Time Had Come / A Visit To New Haven / A Mesivta -- Comes Into Being /adding Secular Studies /the First Roshei Yeshivah / -- Lithuanian Learning With Chassidic Bren -- 7 Instilling Yiddishkelt 98 -- Producing Frum Baalebatim /two She'eilos / Between Jew And Gentile / -- Acquiring A Jewish Heart / Learning By Example -- 8 With Neginah And Rikud 111 -- Marking The Calendar --^ 9 In The Classroom 121 -- Opening New Vistas / Pedagogue Par Excellence / Lessons For Life -- 10 Opening Up The Siddur 134 -- Making Each Word Count/the Power Of Prayer / Reb Shraga Feivel's -- Own Davening -- 11 The Roshei Yeshivah 142 -- Rabbi David Leibowitz's Departure / Retreat To Liberty / Search For A -- New Rosh Yeshivah / Rabbi Shlomo Heiman / Reb Shlomo's Successors -- 12 The Boss 156 -- Reb Shraga Feivel's Daily Schedule / Relations With The Board -- 13 Guide For Life 169 -- First Impressions / Educate The Youth In His Way / Attending To -- Material Needs As Well As Spiritual / Developing The Individual / -- Bonds Of Love -- 14 Know What To Answer 189 -- Confronting Challenges Head On / Dealing With College -- 15 A Kotzker 201 -- Cheshbon Hanefesh / Far From Falsehood / Rejection Of Luxury / -- Humility / Sharing His Talmidim / Nistar Mendlowitz -- 16 Man Against The Flood 222 -- No Compromise/the Yiddish Press / On Mizrachi -- 17 Seething Spirit 230 --^ Reading From The Siddur Of David Hamelech / An Aesthetic Sensitivity / -- Alive To Hashem's Presence / Accepting Suffering With Love -- 18 Chassid 240 -- Emotional Roots /the Goal Of Chassidus / A Yeshivah For Everyone -- 19 An Education In Responsibility 249 -- For The Klal / Sensitizing To Others / Directing Into Klal Work -- 20 Father Of The Yeshlvos 256 -- Founding Of Mesivta Chaim Berlin / Sharing The Wealth / A Worldwide -- Operation /yeshivah For The Klal -- 21 Visionary 269 -- Reading Material / Girls Education / Orthodox Camping -- 22 Do Not Stahd By Your Brother's Blood 277 -- Affidavits And Fund-raising / Helping The Survivors / Putting The -- Holocaust In Perspective -- 23 Spreading Torah 286 -- Jewish Education -- The Key / Instilling A Sense Of Mission / Aish Dos / -- An Unfulfilled Dream / Bais Medrash Elyon -- 24 Torah Umesorah: 303 -- Spreading Torah Throughout America -- Lining Up Support / Enlisting The Gedolim / Living On Idealism / Dr. --^ Joseph Kaminetsky / Detroit -- A Model Of Inspiration -- 25 In Love With Zion 321 -- Plans For Building The Land / Support For Bnei Brak -- 26 Final Months 329 -- Bidding Farewell To The Mesivta /the U.n. Declaration / Reconsidering -- His Stance / Heart In Zion / Preparing For The End / Final Days -- Appendix / A Talmid Remembers -- 347 -- Reminiscences Of Rabbi Nesanel Quinn -- The Neshamah Yeseirah (the Added Soul) Of Shabbos / Multiple -- Greatness / Jewish Philosophy Of World History -- Index 357. By Yonoson Rosenblum. Expanded Translation Of: Sheluḥa De-raḥmana. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. מבוסס על: שלוחה דרחמנא מאת אהרון סורסקי.

Publisher:

Mesorah Publications Ltd.

Pages:

366

Date Published:

2001-06-30