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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 from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and a BA degree in Psychology and an MA degree in Education, from Yeshiva University. He has previously taught at Machon Gold and Nishmat in Jerusalem.

Pesach Mitzrayim - A Commitment to God
Text shiur by Rav Moshe Aberman

Positive Mitzvot of Shabbat - Introduction
Audio shiur by Rav Moshe Aberman

 


Rav Amnon Bazak studied at the Netiv Meir Yeshiva High School in Jerusalem and then came to study at Yeshivat Har Etzion. In the context of the Hesder Program, he served in the military rabbinate, and has received Semicha and earned a Bachelor of Education degree from the Herzog College. Rav Bazak served as a Ram at Netiv Meir Yeshiva High School and since 1999, as a Ram in Yeshivat Har Etzion. Likewise, he teaches Tanach at the Herzog College and at the SKA Beit Midrash for Women in Migdal Oz, and edits the weekly journal Shabbat BeShabbato, as well as other books. He authored the 2 volume sefer, Nekudat Peticha - short studies in peshuto shel mikra arranged by order of parsha, based on his column in Shabbat BeShabbato, as well as Makbilot Nifgashot, highlighting literary parallels in Sefer Shmuel.


Rav Ezra Bick, a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since his aliya from New York in 1977, currently teaches a second-year shiur for Israeli students. He is Director of the Yeshiva's Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash Project, with more than 20 shiurim on varying levels reaching tens of thousands of individuals worldwide. Rav Bick earned his Semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and holds an M.S. degree in Jewish Philosophy from YU and a M. Phil. degree in Philosophy from Columbia University. He is the author of Yud-Gimel Middot Shel Rachamim [hebrew], 10 shiurim on the human condition and man's relationship with the Ribbono Shel Olam.

Tzedaka and Chesed
Text shiur by Rav Ezra Bick

Ramban on the Parsha - Lech Lecha: Fathers and Children
Audio shiur by Rav Ezra Bick


Rav Shlomo Brin studied at the Netev Meir Yeshiva High School in Jerusalem and joined Yeshivat Har Etzion in 1974. He served in the IDF as a medic in the context of the Hesder Program and fought in the Yom Kippur War and the Peace for Galilee War. He studied at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem for a brief period, and afterwards, returned to Yeshivat Har Etzion. Today, Rav Brin serves as a Ram for first-year students in the Yeshiva, and directs the program to train Judaic studies teachers for the secular school system of the Herzog College, as well as teaching in the Yeshiva and Herzog College.


Rav Pini Cohen first came to the yeshiva as a talmid in the Midreshet Torah veAvoda [MTA] program in 1994. Rav Pini earned his Semicha from the Rabbanut, and holds a degree in Business Management and Psychology from the University of South Africa, as well as a B.Ed. from the Herzog College. Rav Pini currently teaches Gemara, Hashkafa and Halacha to the South African and Australian talmidim. He has also been teaching at the Gush Etzion Regional Elementary School for the past ten years.


Rav Uziel Friedlich began his advanced Torah studies at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav in 1967. With the establishment of Yeshivat Har Etzion in 1968, Rav Friedlich joined the first class and became a founder of the Yeshiva and of Alon Shevut. Today, Rav Friedlich serves as Mashgiach and Spiritual Director of the Yeshiva.


Rav Mordechai Friedman [YHE '78] has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since 1986. 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 Israel.

The Sanctity of God's Name, Part1
Erasing Sacred texts from a Computer Screen

Text shiur by Rav Mordechai Friedman
 

Pesach - Halacha Le-Ma'aseh
Audio shiur by Rav Mordechai Friedman


Rav Yair Kahn, [YHE '77] head of the Overseas Students Program, has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since 1987. He teaches an Israeli shiur, one into which the Overseas students integrate comfortably. 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.


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.


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 and Sha'alvim.


Rav Shlomo Levi studied at the Netiv Meir Yeshiva High School in Jerusalem and joined Yeshivat Har Etzion in 1969. He has served as a Ram in the Yeshiva since 1974, and also taught at Yeshivat Shavei Chevron and at Yeshivat "Birkat Moshe" in Ma'alei Adumim. Today, Rav Shlomo Levi heads the Halacha Kollel in the Yeshiva, and teaches in the Yeshiva and at Beit Morasha in Jerusalem. He also serves as a Dayan in the monetary courts of Alon Shevut and Kiryat Arba.


Rav Yitzhak Levi served in the Intelligence Corps in the IDF, reaching the rank of Major in the standing army. Upon his discharge from the army, he joined the Kollel of Yeshivat Har Etzion where he studied for nine years, while simultaneously earning a Bachelor's degree in Jewish History and Archeology. Rav Levi headed the Ulpana in Elkana for four years and afterwards, returned to the Yeshiva. Today, he serves as the Mashgiach of Yeshivat Har Etzion and teaches Tanach and Eretz Yisrael Studies at the Herzog College.


Rav Hillel Rachmani studied at the Netiv Meir Yeshiva High School in Jerusalem and began his studies at Yeshivat Har Etzion in 1970. He received a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Master's degree from Touro College. Rav Rachmani currently heads the Jewish Thought Department at Yeshivat Har Etzion, and teaches in the Yeshiva and Herzog College, at Midreshet Matan in Jerusalem and at the Midrasha for Women of Bar Ilan University.


Rav Daniel Rhein has been at Yeshivat Har Etzion since Elul 2001. He earned his Semicha from Yeshiva University/RIETS, and an MS in Secondary Jewish Education from Yeshiva University Ferkauf/Azrieli. Rav Rhein was the Founding Prinicpal at Block Yeshiva High School in St Louis, served as Principal at Ohr Torah HS in NY, Rebbe and Assistant Principal at MTA , Rebbe and Director of Guidance at HAFTR, and Rebbe and mashgiach ruchani at Beit Midrash L'Torah. He also has many years experience in informal Jewish education, including serving on the Chinuch staff at Camp Mesorah, and as the Director of the educational staff at Morasha.


Rav Yosef-Zvi Rimon studied at the Netiv Meir Yeshiva High School in Jerusalem and joined Yeshivat Har Etzion in 1987. He served in the Armored Corps in the context of his army service in the Hesder Program and earned a Bachelor of Education degree from the Herzog College. He has served as a Ram in the Yeshiva since 1996 and also teaches classes in halacha for the entire Yeshiva. In 2001, Rav Rimon headed the Halacha Program in the Yeshiva's Kollel, and published a book "Shiurei Shevi'it" on the laws of Shemitta. Today, Rav Rimon serves as a neighborhood Rav in Alon Shevut, and as a Ram for first-year students in the Yeshiva. He publishes study sheets on various halachic topics and teaches at the Herzog College and at the Beit Midrash for Women in Migdal Oz.


Rav Doniel Schreiber [YHE '86] has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since 1994. He has Semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and an MA in Medieval Jewish History from the Bernard Revel Graduate School. Rabbi Schreiber also lectures regularly in halacha in the community of Alon Shevut, and has been delivering a weekly evening halacha shiur to men and women in Jerusalem since 1997, first at Kehillat Moriah until 2003, and then at the Hildesheimer Shul until the present. He is the author of an Internet shiur entitled "The Laws of Shabbat" for the Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash, has published articles in various books and Torah journals, and has served as scholar-in-residence in various communities in Israel, the United States, and South Africa. His shiurim emphasize reaching a clear halachic conclusion while showcasing the dynamic and conceptual system of halacha as it emerges from the gemara, rishonim, and poskim. Rabbi Schreiber and his wife, together with their eight children, live in Alon Shevut.


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.


Rav Moshe Taragin [YHE '83] has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion since 1994. 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."


Rav Daniel Wolf [YHE '75] has been teaching at Yeshivat Har Etzion since 1983. He received his Semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, his 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 consultations helping (needy and other) Israeli families manage their finances, especially mortgages.  Rav Wolf has combined his unique economics and halachic expertise to develop a special perspective on ribbit and other financial-halachic issues. Consequently he is available for halakhic consultations for ribbit issues in legal contracts.

Rav Wolf has also developed a special curriculla for teaching gemara, including a multi-year program teaching central topics of the talmud. In two areas (Seder Nashim and Taharot) his students have written and published (under his supervision and guidance) well received books based on those lectures, Mincha LeAharon, and Mincha Tehora, respectively. Taharot is a specialty not generally learned in yeshivot and Rav Wolf has delved into this area and has developed an exceptional forte in this challenging area.

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