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Reception in London for Moscow Yeshiva
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The miraculous revival of Yiddishkeit in Russia and the instrumental role of Yeshivas Toras Chaim of Moscow, which was founded 14 years ago by Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik zt"l of Zurich, was the theme of a well-attended reception that was held last Sunday night (7 December) in honor of Rabbi Moshe Lebel, its rosh yeshiva, in the home of Mr. Mendy Bude.

The reception was graced by the presence of Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, the rosh beis din of the London Beis Din, as well as Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, and Reb Yisroel Brunner, a long-time benefactor of the Yeshiva who came especially from Antwerp for the occasion. Councilor Abba Dunner was in the chair.

Dayan Ehrentreu described the Yeshiva's phenomenal success with Russian Jewry as a manifestation of Hashem's Hashgocho for Klal Yisroel; just as the Romans had attempted to destroy Yiddishkeit but failed to destroy its spirit, so the flourishing of Yiddishkeit in Russia that we have witnessed in the last few years, as exemplified by the Yeshiva, is proof that the Communists also failed to destroy the spirit of Yiddishkeit.

Rabbi Goldschmidt pointed out that many of the Yeshiva alumni are not only learning in the best yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel and the United States, but are also taking up rabbinic positions in other cities of the former Soviet Union, thereby planting the seeds for a revolution in Russian Jewry similar to the ba'al teshuva movement that has taken hold amongst the Sephardim in Eretz Yisroel. He attributed its success to the fact that it is one of the few institutions in the former Soviet Union that is based on da'as Torah. He declared that there could be no future for Yiddishkeit in Russia without the Yeshiva as it undertakes the major portion of the kiruv work in that country and is therefore the foremost mokom Torah in eastern Europe.

 

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