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Yeshivat Har Etzion / Overseas Program Faculty / Complete Yeshiva Faculty
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Rav Moshe Aberman [YHE '77] has taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion since
1985. He was on sabbatical in Chicago for the 97 and 98 academic
years, serving as Rosh Kollel of the Torah Mi'Tzion Kollel. He
received his Semicha, BA degree in Psychology and MA degree in
Education, from Yeshiva University. He has previously taught at
Machon Gold and Nishmat in Jerusalem. |
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Rav Ezra Bick, a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since his aliya from New York
29 years ago, currently teaches a third-year shiur for Israeli
students. He is Director of the Yeshiva's Israel Koschitzky Virtual
Beit Midrash Project, with close to 20 shiurim on varying levels
reaching tens of thousands of individuals worldwide. Rav Bick earned
his Semicha from Yeshiva University, and holds an M.S. degree in
Jewish Philosophy from YU and a Master's degree in Philosophy from
Columbia University. |
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Rav Mordechai Friedman [YHE '78] has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion for
the past 19 years. He is the Halacha Coordinator for the Virtual
Beit Midrash, the Yeshiva's Internet Project. Rabbi Friedman studied
under Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik z"l at Yeshiva University in New
York, graduating with a degree in Computer Sciences. He earned
Semicha from the Chief Rabbinate of
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Rav Yair Kahn, [YHE '77] head of the Overseas Students Program,
has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since 1987. He is
currently teaching a third-year Israeli shiur. Rav Kahn has been the
coordinator of the Virtual Beit Midrash Gemara Iyun Shiur for
several years. Originally from NY, Rav Kahn studied at Chaim
Berlin, Yeshiva University, and Yeshivat Har Etzion. Rav Kahn
is also the editor of the Shiurei Hagrid series published
by the Toras Horav Foundation and Mossad Harav Kook.
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Rav Elyakim Krumbein came on aliya from New York in 1973 following his studies at
Yeshiva College, joining the Kollel at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He has
been teaching at Yeshiva since 1981, currently heading the Tochnit
Bekiut. He also served as a Pedagogic Advisor at the Herzog College,
supervising the fieldwork of third-year Herzog College students. Rav
Krumbein's guides for self-study on the Bavot, Ketubot and other
Massechtot are widely used by Yeshiva students and alumni. He is the
author of Sho'el K'inyan, two volumes of study guides on Gittin and
Kiddushin. He recently published Musar for Moderns (KTAV), an
introductory course in musar for the contemporary
Jew. |
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Rav Menachem Leibtag [YHE '77] headed the Overseas Program at Yeshivat Har
Etzion for over a decade, after completing the Hesder Program and
studies at Machon Lev, the Jerusalem College of Technology. His
Tanach classes at Yeshiva, emphasizing biblical theme and structure,
have opened his students' eyes to new dimensions within the text,
while transmitting a deeper appreciation of Torah values. He was
instrumental in creating the Yeshiva's Virtual Beit Midrash, which
today reaches tens of thousands of readers worldwide, and then
initiated the Tanach Study Center, his own comprehensive program for
the study of Tanach on the Internet. He also teaches at Midreshet
Lindenbaum, MMY in Jerusalem, Yeshivat HaKotel and
Sha'alvim. |
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Rav Doniel Schreiber [YHE '86] is a Ram for overseas students at Yeshivat
Har Etzion, writes shiurim on the laws of Shabbat for the
Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash, and lectures in Halacha in
Alon Shevut and at Kehillat Moriah in Jerusalem. He has an MA in
Medieval Jewish History from the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and
Semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary. |
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Rav Binyamin Tabory a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since 1979, received
Semicha and a Master's in Jewish Philosophy from Yeshiva University.
Rav Tabory previously served as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Bnei Akiva
High School in Toronto. He was the founding Rosh Kollel of the Torah
Mitzion Kollel in Cleveland, the first Zionist Kollel in North
America. In addition to his fourth-year shiur for Israeli students
at the Yeshiva, he also taught for many years at Midreshet Moriah in
Jerusalem. Rav Tabory authored a weekly shiur for the Israel
Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash on The Weekly
Mitzva, and gives a weekly shiur at KMTT -
Ki Mitzion Teitze Torah -
The Torah Podcast, the yeshiva's mp3 Torah project in English, and
at KESHET - Kol Shidurei Torah -
The Torah Podcast, the yeshiva's mp3 Torah project in
Hebrew. |
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Rav Moshe Taragin [YHE '83] has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion in
Gush Etzion for the past 11 years. He has Semicha from the Rabbi
Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a BA in Computer Science from
Yeshiva College, and an MA in English Literature from City
University. Rabbi Taragin previously taught Talmud at Columbia
University, lectured in Talmud and Bible at the IBC and JSS
divisions of Yeshiva University, and served as Assistant Rabbi at
the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. In addition, Rabbi Taragin currently
teaches at the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women of Yeshivat
Har Etzion in Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. He is the author of an
Internet shiur entitled "Talmudic Methodology" with over 5,000
subscribers, and authors an audio shiur for KMTT -
Ki Mitzion Teitze Torah -
The Torah Podcast, entitled "Redemptive
Sketches." |
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Rav Daniel Wolf [YHE '75] has been teaching at Yeshivat Har Etzion
since 1983. He received his Semicha and Bachelor's degree in
Mathematics from Yeshiva University and an M.Sc. degree in
Operations Research from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He also conducts seminars and private consultaions
helping (needy and other) Israeli families manage their finances,
especially mortgages.
Rav Wolf is also available for halakhic consultations for ribbit
issues in legal contracts. |
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