Nosson Zvi Finkel - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel: Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel
Nosson Zvi (Nota Hirsh) Finkel (1849-1927), was born in Lithuania and died in the British Mandate of Palestine. He was an influential lea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel: Encyclopedia Ii - Nosson Zvi Finkel - Philosophical Approach
Despite his influence, he was an intensely private person. Yet, he personally oversaw the complete student body of the yeshiva. His motto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acharonim: Encyclopedia - Acharonim
Acharonim (אחרונים Hebrew - sing. Acharon) literally "the later ones", is a term used in Jewish law and history, to signify the le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aharon Kotler: Encyclopedia - Aharon Kotler
Aharon (or Ahroyn, Aaron, Aron) Kotler (1890s - 1962) was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the United State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yitzchok Hutner: Encyclopedia - Yitzchok Hutner
Yitzchok (Isaac) Hutner (1906 - 1980) was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger hasidim and mitnagd...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aharon Kotler: Encyclopedia Ii - Aharon Kotler - World War Ii And Move To The Usa
When the communists took over, the yeshivah moved to Kletzk in Poland. With the outbreak of World War II, Rabbi Kotler and the yeshivah r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mir Yeshiva: Encyclopedia Ii - Mir Yeshiva - Escape Across Siberia By Rail
As the Nazi armies continued to push to the east, the leaders of the yeshiva eventually fled across Siberia by train, going so far east a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Rabbis: Later Middle Ages
List of rabbis - Rabbis: 18th Century. Haim Isaac Carigal, rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Revere...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yitzchok Hutner: Encyclopedia Ii - Yitzchok Hutner - 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 s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Reconstructionist Rabbis
List of rabbis - Reconstructionist rabbis: 20th Century. Mordecai Kaplan, 20th century founder of the Reconstructionist movement in Am...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Conservative Rabbis
List of rabbis - Conservative rabbis: 19th Century. Zecharias Frankel, 19th century critical historian, founder of the Positive histor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yitzchok Hutner: Encyclopedia Ii - Yitzchok Hutner - Travels And Marriage
Rabbi Hutner spent some years as a wandering scholar. He spent time in university in Berlin, studying philosophy, but not for the purpose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yitzchok Hutner: Encyclopedia Ii - Yitzchok Hutner - Early Years
Having obtained a deep grounding in Talmud, Hutner was sent to join an extension of the Slabodka yeshiva in Hebron. He studied there unti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Reform Rabbis
List of rabbis - Reform rabbis: 19th Century. Samuel Adler, 19th century German-American rabbi of Temple Emanu-El Emil Hirsch, 19th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yitzchok Hutner: Encyclopedia Ii - Yitzchok Hutner - Methodology
His methodology and style was controversial, although intellectually he placed great emphasis on penetrating Talmudic study and analysis,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yitzchok Hutner: Encyclopedia Ii - Yitzchok Hutner - Publications
He published what is considered his magnum opus which he named Pachad Yitzchok, ("Fear [of] Isaac", meaning the God whom Isaac feared). H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Orthodox Rabbis
List of rabbis - Orthodox rabbis: 19th Century. Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, (Netziv ; Ha'emek Davar) 19th century head of Volozhin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yitzchok Hutner: Encyclopedia Ii - Yitzchok Hutner - Mentor To Others
He was the mentor of some controversial figures in modern Jewish outreach to non-Orthodox Jews. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who became the "Si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel: Encyclopedia Ii - Nosson Zvi Finkel - Land Of Israel
Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel staged one of the most dramatic moves in the history of yeshivot. In the 1920s he decided to create a branch of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel: Encyclopedia Ii - Nosson Zvi Finkel - Opposition
His main opponents in the "yeshiva world" were the members and alumni of the Brisk yeshiva of Lithuania headed by the Soloveitchik family...   » Read the article