Asher Arieli
Rabbi Asher Arieli | |
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| Title | Rabbi Asher Arieli |
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| Born | 1957 |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Spouse | Malka Arieli |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Position | Senior Lecturer |
| Yeshiva | Mir Yeshiva |
| Residence | Jerusalem, Israel |
Rabbi Asher Arieli (born 1957) is an Israeli rabbi and the senior lecturer at the Mir Yeshiva in Israel. He is globally renowned for his lectures on Talmud and is widely recognized as a gadol in his own right. He presently delivers the largest Talmudic lecture by attendance in the world with over 1000 daily attendees. His primary, daily shiur begins at 12:15pm and is streamed live at Kol Haloshon.
Family life[edit]
Asher Arieli is married to rebbetzin Malka, the daughter of hagaon rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, the late rosh yeshiva of Mir. Arieli is the son of rabbi Chaim Yaakov Arieli, author of Be'er Yaakov (באר יעקב). Chaim Yaakov Arieli was the son of rabbi Yitzhak Arieli, author of Einaim L'Mishpat (עינים למשפט) and mashgiach ruchani of Mercaz HaRav. Rabbi Mordechai Ilan, the son-in-law of Yitzhak Arieli is Asher's paternal uncle. Reb Chaim Yaakov's wife[1] is the sister of rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, as are the wives of rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik and Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu making the three rabbis his uncles. Asher's brother rabbi Shlomo Arieli is the author of a critical edition of the novellae of rabbi Akiva Eiger.
Before his marriage, Arieli studied in the Ponevezh Yeshiva headed by rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky, and he later studied under his father-in-law in the Mirrer Yeshiva.
Arieli lives in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel where he has also been active in a movement to establish rabbinic overseeing of the rent control there after an inadequate supply of rental units caused prices to rise substantially in a very short time period.
Lectures[edit]
The following is a partial list of Arieli's set lecture:
- Shiur is his daily lecture on the Talmudic tractate officially learned in Mir (Yiddish).
- Monday and Thursday chaburos are twice-weekly lectures on the Talmudic tractate officially learned in Mir (Hebrew)
- Thursday night chabura is an exclusive lecture expounding on the shiur delivered in Arieli's home to a select group of senior students.
- Tuesday night and Friday morning shiur (on Talmudic tractate) given in Tifferet Tzvi, yeshiva haredit for Religious Zionist students.
Additionally, Asher has delivered guest lectures for such events as the Agudat Yisrael annual Yarchei Kallah.[2][3] The last 3 cycles of Arieli's lectures on most of the major tractates are available by telephone[4] and for download.[5]
Although Arieli's lectures are in Yiddish, his mother tongue is Hebrew and he only learnt Yiddish in order to understand the lectures which he heard in the Mir Yeshiva.[6] Lectures in the Mir are often given in Yiddish. One of his chavrusas in Ponevezh, rabbi Avrohom Horovitz, taught him Yiddish.
Students[edit]
Several of Arieli's students, such as Yoel Rabin, Yehudah Wagshal, Shmuli Wolman, Yaakov Moshe Katz,[7] Binyomin Cohen, Elimelech Reznick, Moshe Ahron Friedman, Yosef Elefant and Shamai Bernstein give lectures in the Mir Yeshiva for English-speaking audiences, mainly in the Beis Yeshaya building of Mir. Pinchas Braunstein and Eitan Yaffan are also distinguished talmidim of Arieli. Rabbi Yechiel Spero, author of "Touched by a Story" is also a student of Arieli.[8]
Many of his students are now respected lecturers in yeshivas worldwide, including the USA and the UK.
Sources[edit]
- ^ Meller, Shimon Yosef (1 January 2007). The Brisker Rav: The Life and Times of Maran HaGaon ... Yitzchok Ze'ev HaLevi Soloveichik Zt"l : Including Stories of the Great City of Brisk from Its Establishment as a Torah Center Until Its Destruction During the Holocaust. Feldheim Publishers. ISBN 9781583309698 – via Google Books.
- ^ "theyeshivaworld.com". [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - NEWS". Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ^ Scharf, Menasche (27 December 2001). "Our Little Corner: Local and other news round up - Read all about it here". Our Little Corner. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Kol Haloshon - Harav Osher Arieli - Harav Asher Ari'eli". www.kolhalashon.com. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ "Avodah V3 #20". www.aishdas.org.
- ^ "Rav Yaakov Moshe Katz website". Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ Spero, Yechiel (2003). Touched by a Story: Inspiring Stories Retold by a Master Teacher. Mesorah Publications. ISBN 9781578193820.
External links[edit]
Media related to Asher Arieli at Wikimedia Commons
- Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi dancing with Rabbi Asher Arieli
- Rabbi Arieli's eulogy for his father-in-law Rabbi Nochum Partzovitz
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