Most people who follow contemporary halacha already know Rav Hershel Schachter. He has been teaching at Yeshiva University for decades, and his psak is familiar from many areas of practical halacha, including his work with the Orthodox Union in kashrus. His involvement with Techeiles goes back to the early years of the modern renewal. When…
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R’ Wein wore it Rambam 13 style. Buy Jewish History - A Trilogy Today!Available in: US | CA | UK | FR
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Rabbi Benzion Twerski represents the third generation of Rabbinic leadership at Congregation Beth Jehudah. He strives to take classic Chassidic texts and teach them in a manner that makes them relevant to all who strive to connect with their teachings. Rabbi Twerski’s sensitivity and probing intellect has allowed him to develop close relationships with his…
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There aren’t many people whose name belongs in both a beis medrash and a rehab center — but Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski somehow did it. He brought Chassidus into the language of psychiatry in a way that didn’t sound borrowed or tacked on. It just… fit. If you’ve ever met someone who swears a…
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Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel, is rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of South Fallsburg. From https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/12979/list-of-techelet-wearers/13027#13027: Hacham Gabriel “heard from a talmid .” His tallis in Yeshiva is regular. From Yehoshua Yankelewitz: “אני שמעתי את זה ממנו, וכן מאחדים מתלמידיו. כמו כן ראיתי את אחד מתלמידיו (שנמען כאן) קושר לו את ציציותיו עם תכלת. והוא הורה כן…
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A Dayan. From his Wikipedia page: “הרב שלמה דיכובסקי (נולד ב-15 בדצמבר 1938) הוא רב ודיין ישראלי חרדי, חבר בית הדין הרבני הגדול עד לפרישתו, שלאחריה שימש כמנהל בתי הדין. נחשב לליברלי באופן יחסי, ובקיא בתחומים כלליים – בעיקר במשפטים.” From Forward: “Greenspan said that Rav Shlomo Dichovsky of the Beit Din Hagadol, Jerusalem’s Chief Rabbinate, also dons the dyed fringes.”
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R’ Zalman Nechemia Goldberg ZT”L, son-in-law of R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, was a rabbi, posek, and Rosh Yeshiva in Israel. He was also Chief Justice of the Rabbinical High Court in Jerusalem and wore Tekhelet. In addition, R’ Goldberg wrote a beautiful Haskama on R’ Mois Navon’s book “Threads of Reason.” From Techeiles.org: “Harav Zalman Nechemia…
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R’ Belsky ZT”L had a complicated relationship with Tekhelet. Ironically, while both he and R’ Schachter wore Techeiles, while working together for the OU, neither one influenced the other (R’ Hershel Schachter told me that if anything, if he told R’ Belsky one thing he would davka do the opposite – RH). R’ Eliyahu Tavger…
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