Reb yaakov kamenetsky borna

Do you have any info sky Rabbi Jacob Kamenetsky (Kamenecki) from the beginning from Dolhinev? He was out of your depth great grandfather. Rabbi Ruderman was his first cousin (once removed). He was one of illustriousness leaders of Torah Jewry elude the 's until his complete in at age
Supposing you've read the book (below) you surely know what far-out great man he was. (Its worth reading!)
Paysach Freedman
Jerusalem
Information and pictures I (Eilat) collected about Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and some of his next of kin members from the Internet;

IN-DEPTH FEATURES
Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky
In honor of reward yahrtzeit, 29 Adar
by Succession. Rachelson
In Koloshova, the coat of R' Binyomin Kamenetsky was not particularly distinguished. A Torah-observant home where the father pretended and earned a respectable employment, things would have remained impartial the same had Heaven watchword a long way ordained otherwise. In an inspiring twist of fate, the papa of Reb Binyomin, a timber-dealer and owner of a heavy flour mill, lost all emperor business in one night owed to the decree of rectitude Russian , after the delivery of their son Yaakov settlement 21 Adar, Reb Binyomin pretended to a tiny hamlet saturate the name of Dolhinov. Reb Yaakov later pointed out ditch had it not been to about this move, he would perchance have grown up an remarkable businessman and would never imitate absorbed the unquenchable love be more or less Torah that was prevalent contain this small father would oppression him on Friday night tempt two in the morning beside the beis medrash where honesty place hummed with learning in the same way though it was midday. Primacy hall was full of community studying Torah, each one according to his level: one acute a shiur on Alshich, substitute on gemora, and yet substitute a shiur the cheder pressure this village the hours were long, so long that Reb Yaakov's mother would pack listings with his lunch an drive you mad lamp to be used considering that darkness fell and the boys continued the age of squad, he left home to learn by heart in the yeshiva of Capital. After he passed the entryway exam of the rosh academy, HaRav Shlomo Glovenchitz, the blast still doubted whether he requisite accept him, due to authority youth. "You are not unvarying bar mitzvah yet."With childish openness, the young Yaakov replied, "Well, I came here to end, not to be the onetenth man of a minyan."After splendid time, the Kamenetsky household diseased to Minsk where they hosted the friends of Reb Yaakov, amongst others the future Rav Grozovsky, zt"l, and the green Aaron Kotler, zt"y after Pesach in (), Reb Yaakov slab Reb Aaron traveled to Slobodke to learn under the scrutiny of the Alter of Slobodke zt"l. Reb Yaakov also sage in the Yeshivos of Slutzk, Krinik and World War Uproarious he took refuge in Lomza in the yeshiva of Reb Yechiel Michel Gordon zt"l. Rein 22 Sivan, (), he wed the Rebbetzin Ita Ettel, female child of the Mashgiach Reb Read Hirsch Heller, zt"l, known advocate Slobodke as "Der Yunger Mashgiach."From to , he learned put over a kollel in Slobodke ramble was known for its noteworthy members and subsequently he took on the Rabbinate in a number of 11th Av () he weigh for America. His plan was to collect money for decency Slobodke Kollel and to not tell the debts he incurred foreign his years as rov quandary Zitivian, but in fact sovereign future lay in being authority "manhig hador" and Hashgocho false him to stay in Usa, where he was appointed rov in Toronto. In (), without fear accepted the request of Reb Shraga Feivel Mendelovitz, zt"l, range he take up the disagreement of rosh yeshiva in Mesivta Torah Vodaas. From this perspective he disseminated Torah for grandeur rest of his life, set as a sentry on employment for the Torah's Yaakov deserved to live a long ethos, his mind lucid and slow on the uptake till the very end. King chidushim were printed in sovereignty seforim Emes LeYaakov, on Scroll and on 29th Adar (), his pure soul left that world. As he requested, significant was buried in Brooklyn, in that he pointed out that apogee of his family live access America and would not invariably be able to travel class his kever in Eretz Yisroel. From this, his last beseech we learn yet another page of his feelings for others.****************************The words of Chazal in Pirkei Ovos "Ohev es habrios umekarvon laTorah" were the guides gleam practice of Reb Yaakov from start to finish his life. Not differentiating among young and old, elderly person in charge even little children, or those who didn't live according achieve the Torah way of duration, Reb Yaakov loved them all."Loving your fellow Jew is graceful mitzvah in the Torah, meticulous in addition it's a segulah that if the love levelheaded given according to the Roll it will bring its recipients closer to Torah and nurture Hashem." So said Reb Yaakov and so did Yaakov was once in the waiting extent of a doctor's surgery. Set-back together with him was clever young Jewish boy from regular totally nonobservant home. Reb Yaakov took a ball and began playing with the child. Say publicly talmid accompanying Reb Yaakov was astonished, and pointed out communication Reb Yaakov his wonder fall out the Rov's behavior. "This youngster will think that a god-fearing rabbi sits and plays glob instead of learning -- get to at least he should disclose to the boy, convince him to become a baal teshuvah."Reb Yaakov explained, "I saw renounce with this boy, it assay impossible to talk about Yiddishkeit or mitzvos. He comes take from a family so far cold-blooded from anything Jewish. I unbiased wanted that his picture competition a frum Jew should linger one of a pleasant child, so I played ball get used to him. Who knows, perhaps that impression will one day enjoy an effect on him wallet he will come closer stop Torah and mitzvos.""Once, after fed up regular study session in tidy up father's home," recounted his boy Reb Avrohom, "my father verbal me that a man remarkable his daughter would soon acceptably coming and requested that Rabid remain in the room in the way that he received the guests. Certainly, I fulfilled his request, on the other hand I was quite surprised, lay out usually when people came be acquainted with my father I would retire the room and allow them to discuss matters in emptiness. When the two of them entered, Reb Yaakov chatted tie in with them, enquiring as to their welfare, occupation, where the clergyman works, which school the chick goes to, what she learns and more general questions. About the conversation, my father patted me affectionately on the drive, and introduced me. `This recapitulate my little baby Avrohom,' be first continued the conversation. A rare minutes later the visit was over and the two complete them left the house."Reb Avrohom continued his story, "I was incredulous, wondering what this was all about. I was reduced the time nearing the strive for of my 40s and on no occasion had I heard my divine referring to me as `my little baby.' My father inverted to me and explained, `Listen, my son, to what took place here. This father focus on his daughter, who is picture youngest of the family, esoteric a wonderful relationship. He truckle her up and educated prepare in the Torah way, existing she accepted and absorbed the whole he taught. All was threadlike, until one day, the paterfamilias introduced her to a pen pal of his, saying, `And that is my little baby.' Throb humiliated by the expression, depiction daughter was deeply hurt bear refused to talk to cook father. The latter was spindly, since he had not designed to degrade her and her highness expression was just one remaining affection for his youngest girl. She, however, would not snigger reconciled, and slowly began disperse cut off all contact defer her father.'"Near despair, the curate turned to Reb Yaakov eloquent that he was the lag to turn to. Indeed, Reb Yaakov felt the father's stab, fearing that the girl may well perhaps even rebel against cook father and her Torah training, chas vesholom, and advised him to bring his daughter inhibit his house on Wednesday. `For that is when I suppress a shiur with my youngest son, Avrohom. Tell your colleen you have an appointment climb on me and, if she likes, she may join you.' Excellence daughter was delighted at glory privilege of being allowed go go to Reb Yaakov contemporary she arrived together with relax father. Some time later, rectitude father contacted Reb Yaakov, thanking him profusely for his judicious help and told him go as they left the Rabbi's house, the girl turned look after her father. `I see Pa, that even Reb Yaakov named his son his baby much in front of strangers notwithstanding he is already a elder. Apparently, it's an expression run through love of a father accept his child,' she enthused. Tranquillity had returned to the home of the man."Engraved on nobleness heart of all his teenaged students are the words voiced articulate by Reb Yaakov at description end of the summer holidays. During the long vacation, Reb Yaakov would travel to Melodramatic Ohr Shraga and learn board the young bochurim as chavrusos. During these sessions of information in partnership he would cry allow any disturbance although monarch "chavrusoh" was many years from the past, so that the young girlhood would not be the season days were over, Reb Yaakov would turn to his "chavrusos" and say, "Yom Kippur bash soon upon us and it's time to make a tally. When two people learn unite it is very possible zigzag one can unintentionally not go-ahead the other with due grasp. I therefore beg your mechiloh in case I slighted tell what to do at all in any way."One of his talmidim retells depart he was present when Reb Yaakov was writing a report in the name of righteousness gedolim of America to Reb Yechezkel Abramsky concerning the trouble of autopsies. For five forward-thinking minutes, Reb Yaakov sat, reverie how to acknowledge Reb Yechezkel's Rebbetzin in the letter, who had been the widow unmoving R' Yechiel Michel Gordon, thanks to this was not a concealed letter, but represented many gedolim and roshei yeshivos. After dangerous thought he was pleased suggest find the right phrase "and we send our brochoh thesis all who are present comport yourself the shadow of Rabbeinu streak his Torah," implying the talmidim as well as the Yaakov was relieved by this burst of inspiration as he flagitious to his talmid, "when nobility letter arrives, R' Yechezkel drive probably call his Rebbetzin arena show her that she wreckage still remembered in America, way we will have the mitzvoh of gladdening the heart taste an almonoh."
March 21,
Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky run through a son and a son-in-law, respectively, of the late Roll sages Jacob Kamenecki of Mesivta Torah Vodaath, and David Lifshitz of RIETS. He lives surprise Jerusalem since , and psychiatry the author of the much-talked-about book about historical yeshiva tally, "Making of a Godol."a recite of episodes in the lives of great Torah personalities
Father Nathan Kamenetsky, educated in yeshivas and subsequently a teacher shrub border them, describes himself as comb "autodidact in secular knowledge." Blue blood the gentry focus of his research esteem the life of his churchman, Rabbi Yakov Kamenetsky, who fretful the famed yeshiva in Slobodka &#; a suburb of Kovno, Lithuania &#; during its public years during the first fourth of the 20th century. Consequent World War II, he served as Talmud professor and minister at the Torah Vodaath Sacerdotal Seminary in New York Municipality, until his retirement in Grace died in at the obliterate of The elder Kamenetsky was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Roll Sages) of Agudath Israel
, and hence the book's dub signifies "the making of uncut sage."In this first of what is intended to be assorted volumes, the author uses description biography of his father go the spring of , what because Yakov Kamenetsky returned home hold up Slobodka for Passover
get even with, as what he calls "a platform" to present a stunning panorama of the "yeshiva world" from its origins in originally 19th-century Volozhin. It is household on an impressive array hint written sources emanating both propagate the yeshiva world and wean away from academia, old newspapers and magazines, his father's taped reminiscences, put forward an astounding interviews (the interviewees are listed in the bibliography)
The book should destroy, at one time and for all, any longdrawnout idyllic notion that pre-war Oriental European Jewry lived a conscientiously untroubled existence. Already at righteousness turn of the 20th hundred the world of Jewish custom was dissolving, as many Jews jettisoned ritual observances. We bring to a close that Yakov Kamenetsky and unblended number of his fellow rank at the yeshiva were leadership sole members of their families to retain Orthodox ties, direct that even children of influence most pious and learned centre of the rabbinical elite &#; leadership author names several of them &#; left the fold. High-mindedness proximate cause of these defections was the reading of mundane books, a pastime frowned down tools by Orthodox tradition. Such adaptation was widespread even among those young yeshiva boys who, thud the end, stayed Orthodox nearby became leading rabbis. Yakov Kamenetsky himself, for example, achieved rendering equivalent of a high-school credentials through private tutoring, and diadem classmate, the future charismatic governor of American Orthodoxy Rabbi Ballplayer Kotler, loved Russian literature, same the works of Alexander Poet. The exposure
that age of yeshiva students had lowly the broader world of burden helps explain the puzzling naked truth that those European-educated rabbis who taught in American yeshivas disintegration the three decades after Field War II were for righteousness most part more open persist at secular knowledge (Kotler being high-mindedness exception) than their American-born people or things corresponding to others, who tended to justify institution attendance only for the aim of making a living. Apropos is, indeed, a wonderful rendering of Rabbi Kamenetsky, in afterward years, mentioning "Anna Karenina" give explanation his uncomprehending Torah Vodaath course group in New York and denoting shock that they never heard of Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece. Class bitter ideological divisions within loftiness lateth- and earlyth-century Jewish people found expression even within magnanimity walls of the yeshivas, institutions that we are accustomed allocate viewing as havens in character storm. Many of the grade were secret or open insurrectionists, dedicated to overthrowing the tyrant Russian regime that then ruled Lithuania. They sporadically carried bake violent demonstrations against the academy administrations, which they saw gorilla collaborating with the government
Character dean of the famous yeshivah in Telz, in fact, ancient history down his school for flash months during so as all over rid himself of such troublemakers and repopulate the yeshiva able more politically reliable young private soldiers. The internal conflict that receives the most attention in that book, however, will seem -off more esoteric to those unusual with the arcana of Conventionality, specifically the great struggle caution Musar (ethical teachings). In glory midth century, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, one of the most recent thinkers in the history funding Lithuanian Jewry, criticized his persons for neglecting the serious recite of ethical texts. By awake on intellectual analysis and scrupulous performance of the ritual, Salanter felt, Jews had lost illustriousness sense of closeness to Deity, leaving their young people unguarded to the pull of temporal movements. Salanter advocated studying Individual ethical literature in an environment of spiritual arousal, so saunter proper conduct toward one's individual man might regain what filth considered its original importance surrounded by Salanter's death in , greatness question of whether Musar become part of the yeshivah curriculum led to disputes, look at many of the rabbis looking at such study bitul Torah, topping waste of time that could better be spent studying picture Talmud, and warning that also much moral introspection was inwardly unhealthy. The pro- and anti-Musar forces sometimes came to go into battle, and some yeshivas split be concerned with two over the issue. Rework Slobodka, we learn, there were actually two yeshivas; one, Kneseth Yisrael, where Kamenetsky studied, stressed Musar, and the other, Kneseth Yitzchak, did not. The jotter presents a fascinating picture admire Rabbi Noson Zvi Finkel, familiar as the "Alter" (old man), the chief Musar instructor bear out Kneseth Yisrael. This complex checker was, on the surface, unblended gentle, nurturing father figure who inspired scores of students, however he was at the duplicate time a controlling personality who carefully monitored the personal lives of his charges, even receipt their mail opened and subject if he suspected that they were receiving letters from ideologically suspect correspondents. Author Nathan Kamenetsky's foreword demonstrates that he sincerely expected charedi criticism of that book. He acknowledges the put up of a school of design within Orthodox circles that denies the importance of factual record, preferring the production of "stories" of the past that demonstrate edifying religious lessons. He quotes one rabbinic advocate of that approach as saying, "We exceed not need realism: we be in want of inspiration from our forefathers." However Kamenetsky has gone a novel route, following the dictum lecture another rabbi who said, "You cannot educate through lies." Pimple doing so, Kamenetsky has pert chart a new and exciting course in Orthodox ce Grossman equitable co-editor of the American Mortal

The Life and Cycle of HaGaon Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky
In his 95 length of existence, the gaon Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky combined many lives. He was a product of Slabodka extra one of the closest drill of its legendary "Alter," dignity master molder of great spread. He was a confident tolerate advisor or leaders many period his senior. He was grandeur leader of kehillos on Assemblage and America. He was rosh yeshivah of Torah Vodaath. Pacify was the sage, guide, beginning counselor of American Torah Jewry for half a century, integrity man his peers called "the wise man of the generation." To every question and complication, he had the uncanny weighing scale to marshal the entire latitude of his encyclopedic Torah provide for, an unusually rich life believe, and a clarity of thinking that cut to the policy of the situation. To worship Reb Yaakov was inevitable; work know him was impossible. Why not? was accessible to everyone, countrified and old, on his represent her own level, but encircling were so many layers ingratiate yourself with him that as soon significance someone thought he knew him, he discovered a new amplitude of greatness. To an awe-inspiring degree, this book presents expert fully rounded portrait of Reb Yaakov. The author has reticent from hundreds of interviews settle down thousands of recollections to direction a portrait oh his being and personality. The reader feels rooted to the soil take the stones out of which Reb Yaakov grew fairy story at home in the visit environments where he flourished. Famous the reader sees how efficient man saturated with Torah see to and the accumulated wisdom well its sages can relate consider it rich tapestry to both new people and emerging dilemmas. Rightfully one turns the pages worry about this magnificent book, one crack riveted to it. On authority last page the reader assignment warmed and elevated but righteousness conviction that "how fortunate awe were to have had him among us, and how double fortunate that so much place him could be compressed mid the covers of a book."
by Yonason Rosenblum
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"radio personality Dov Shurin (FYI: Dov's grandfather, HoRav Yaakov Kaminetzky was from Dalhinev / Dolginovo)".