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unusual facts about Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin


Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin

Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik, appointed by Rabbi Hutner to give the highest daily lecture in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin; also taught at Yeshiva University, Hebrew Theological College and Brisk Rabbinical College


Aaron Schechter

A number of years prior to his passing in 1980, Rabbi Hutner officially announced that Rabbi Schechter and Rabbi Yonasan David would both serve as co-equal roshei yeshiva of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin.

Elisheva Carlebach Jofen

Her grandfather was Rabbi Joseph Carlebach, the last chief rabbi of Hamburg, and her father is Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who served as the mashgiach ruchani at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and author of the commentary on the Humash Maskil Lishlomo.

Joseph Carlebach

His wife and younger children were also killed during the Holocaust, one son Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who became the mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual supervisor" of students) at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, New York City after the war.

Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok

Rabbi Hutner had previously been the long-standing Rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and Kollel Gur Aryeh in Brooklyn, New York City.


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