An edition of Reb Shraga Feivel (2001)

Reb Shraga Feivel

the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America

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An edition of Reb Shraga Feivel (2001)

Reb Shraga Feivel

the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America

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Brooklyn, N.Y

Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Expanded translation of: Sheluḥa de-Raḥmana.

Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
296.8/32/092, B
Library of Congress
BM755.M4835 R67 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
366 p. :
Number of pages
366

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3583791M
ISBN 10
157819797X, 1578197961
LCCN
2002281285
OCLC/WorldCat
48048599
Goodreads
1920941

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