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{{Infobox school
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|name=Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin
|name=Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin
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|image= File:Yeshiva_Mesivta_Chaim_Berlin_Kollel_Gur_Aryeh,_Sept_2020.jpg
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|caption= September 2020
|caption= September 2020
|location=[[Brooklyn, New York]]
|location=[[Brooklyn, New York]]
| streetaddress = 1605 [[Coney Island Avenue]]
|streetaddress = 1605 [[Coney Island Avenue]]
|country=United States
|country=United States
|type=[[Yeshiva#Lithuanian yeshivas|Yeshiva]]
|type=[[Yeshiva#Lithuanian yeshivas|Yeshiva]]
|established=1904
|established=1904
|staff=
|staff=
| classes_offered = Gemara B'Iyun
|classes_offered =
|website= https://rabbinicalacademyrabbichaimberlin.com
Machshava
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|affiliation=Lithuanian-style [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]]
|affiliation=Lithuanian-style [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]]
|free_label=Rosh Yeshiva
|free_label=Rosh yeshiva
|free_text=[[Aharon Schechter]], [[Yonasan David|Yonasan Dovid David]] and Shlomo Halioua(current). Past: [[Yitzchok Hutner]]
|free_text= [[Yonasan David|Yonasan Dovid David]] and Shlomo Halioua (current). Past: [[Aharon Schechter]], Yaakov Moshe Shurkin, [[Yitzchak Hutner]]
|free_label2=[[Mashgiach Ruchani]]
|free_label2=[[Mashgiach ruchani]]
|free_text2=Mordechai Zelig Schechter (current). Past: [[Avigdor Miller]], [[Shlomo Freifeld]], [[Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)|Shlomo Carlebach]], Shimon Groner
|free_text2=Past: Mordechai Zelig Schechter, [[Avigdor Miller]], [[Shlomo Freifeld]], [[Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)|Shlomo Carlebach]], Shimon Groner
|students= Yehuda Zeev Rapps,
|students=
Buch, Dorton, Malz, Klugs,
}}
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'''Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin''' or '''''Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin''''' ({{lang-he|יְשִׁיבַת רַבֵּינוּ חַיִּים בֶּרלִין}}) is an American [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian]]-type boys' and men's [[yeshiva]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]].
'''Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin''' or '''''Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin''''' ({{lang-he|יְשִׁיבַת רַבֵּינוּ חַיִּים בֶּרלִין}}) is an American [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian]]-type boys' and men's [[yeshiva]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]].
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==History==
==History==
The school was established in 1904 as ''Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim'' in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn]], by Jews who moved there from the [[Lower East Side]] of New York City,<ref name="Fire">(May 14, 1964) [https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/14/archives/yeshiva-fire-loss-is-150000-brooklyn-school-not-insured.html "Yeshiva Fire Loss Is $150,000; Brooklyn School Not Insured"], ''The New York Times''. Retrieved September 16, 2019.</ref> thus making it the oldest yeshiva in [[Kings County, New York|Kings County]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/flatbush-jewish-news/may_13_final/2010051301/18.html#18|title=Kabbalas Hatorah at Three Landmark Flatbush Yeshivos|date=May 13, 2010|access-date=November 17, 2011|work=Flatbush Jewish Journal}}</ref> At the suggestion of [[Meir Berlin]] (Bar-Ilan), it was renamed in 1914 for his brother, [[Chaim Berlin]], Chief Rabbi of Moscow and later Jerusalem, and who had also served in [[Valozhyn]], from where several of the yeshiva's founders came.<ref name=ChaimBerlin.LLevineJP2016>{{cite news
The school was established in 1904 as ''Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim'' in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn]], by Jews who moved there from the [[Lower East Side]] of New York City,<ref name="Fire">(May 14, 1964) [https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/14/archives/yeshiva-fire-loss-is-150000-brooklyn-school-not-insured.html "Yeshiva Fire Loss Is $150,000; Brooklyn School Not Insured"], ''The New York Times''. Retrieved September 16, 2019.</ref> thus making it the oldest yeshiva in [[Kings County, New York|Kings County]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/flatbush-jewish-news/may_13_final/2010051301/18.html#18|title=Kabbalas Hatorah at Three Landmark Flatbush Yeshivos|date=May 13, 2010|access-date=November 17, 2011|work=Flatbush Jewish Journal|archive-date=July 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709094933/http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/flatbush-jewish-news/may_13_final/2010051301/18.html#18|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the suggestion of [[Meir Berlin]] (Bar-Ilan), it was renamed in 1914 for his brother, [[Chaim Berlin]], Chief Rabbi of Moscow and later Jerusalem, and who had also served in [[Valozhyn]], from where several of the yeshiva's founders came.<ref name=ChaimBerlin.LLevineJP2016>{{cite news|newspaper=[[the Jewish Press]]|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/magazine/glimpses-ajh/brooklyn-yeshivas-in-the-1930s-part-i/2016/05/05|title=Brooklyn Yeshivas In The 1930s (Part I)|author=Dr. Yitzchok Levine |date=May 5, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Fire"/>
|newspaper=[[the Jewish Press]]
|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/magazine/glimpses-ajh/brooklyn-yeshivas-in-the-1930s-part-i/2016/05/05
|title=Brooklyn Yeshivas In The 1930s (Part I)
|author=Dr. Yitzchok Levine |date=May 5, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Fire"/>


Chaim Berlin's Mesivta (high school) was, for a while, located in Far Rockaway<ref>{{cite book
Chaim Berlin's Mesivta (high school) was, for a while, located in Far Rockaway<ref>{{cite book|title=The Jewish Day School in America|author=Alvin Irwin Schiff|publisher=Jewish Education Committee Press |lccn=66-19790 |date=January 1966}}</ref> headed by [[Shlomo Freifeld]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/08/obituaries/shlomo-freifeld-rabbi-66.html|title=Shlomo Freifeld, Rabbi, 66|date=October 8, 1990}}</ref>

|title=The Jewish Day School in America
The yeshiva's Stone & Pitkin (Brownsville) seven-story building, formerly known as the Municipal Bank Building,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/432546344|title=Convert Bank to High School Use Alteration of the former Municipal Bank Building, Stone and Pitkin Aves.|date=December 23, 1940}}</ref> was purchased in 1940;<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/01/26/archives/realty-activities-brooklyn-building-bought-from-bank-7story.html|title=Realty Activities; BROOKLYN BUILDING BOUGHT FROM BANK 7-Story Brownsville |date=January 26, 1940}}</ref> [[Jacob Rutstein]] was their major philanthropist.
|author=Alvin Irwin Schiff
<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/52682056/|quote=Jewish School Raises $15,500 ... Yeshiva and Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin|title=Boro Bundles Benefit |date=March 16, 1942}}</ref>
|publisher=Jewish Education Committee Press |lccn=66-19790 |date=January 1966}}</ref> headed by [[Shlomo Freifeld]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/08/obituaries/shlomo-freifeld-rabbi-66.html
|title=Shlomo Freifeld, Rabbi, 66
|date=October 8, 1990}}</ref>


The yeshiva's Stone & Pitkin (Brownsville) seven story building, formerly known as the Municipal Bank Building,<ref>{{cite news
|newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/432546344
|title=Convert Bank to High School Use Alteration of the former Municipal Bank Building, Stone and Pitkin Aves.
|date=December 23, 1940}}</ref> was purchased in 1940;<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/01/26/archives/realty-activities-brooklyn-building-bought-from-bank-7story.html
|title=Realty Activities; BROOKLYN BUILDING BOUGHT FROM BANK 7-Story Brownsville
|date=January 26, 1940}}</ref> [[Jacob Rutstein]] was their major philanthropist.
<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |page=10
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/52682056/
|quote=Jewish School Raises $15,500 ... Yeshiva and Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin
|title=Boro Bundles Benefit |date=March 16, 1942}}</ref>
==Leadership==
==Leadership==
[[File:R Aaron Schechter 1970s.jpg|thumb|180px|Rabbi [[Aaron Schechter]] (white beard) celebrating [[Purim]] in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin during the late 1970s.]]
[[File:R Aaron Schechter 1970s.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Aaron Schechter]] (white beard) celebrating [[Purim]] in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin during the late 1970s.]]
The founding [[rosh yeshiva]], Yaakov Moshe Shurkin, served from 1936 until his death in 1963.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} [[Yitzchok Hutner]] joined the faculty during 1936-1937, and gave monthly lectures as rosh yeshiva from 1943 to 1980. In the late 1970s, a branch was opened in Jerusalem called [[Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok]] (Fear of Isaac).<ref name=RDavid.Hamodia>{{cite news
The founding [[rosh yeshiva]], Yaakov Moshe Shurkin, served from 1936 until his death in 1963. [[Yitzchok Hutner]] joined the faculty during 1936–1937, and gave monthly lectures as rosh yeshiva from 1943 to 1980. In the late 1970s, a branch was opened in Jerusalem called [[Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok]] (Fear of Isaac).<ref name=RDavid.Hamodia>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Hamodia]]|url=https://hamodia.com/frominyan/hijacked-twa-flight-741-revisited-50-years/|title=Hijacked! TWA Flight 741 Revisited After 50 Years|author=Rabbi Binyomin Zev Karman |date=October 5, 2020}}</ref>
|newspaper=[[Hamodia]]
|url=https://hamodia.com/frominyan/hijacked-twa-flight-741-revisited-50-years/
|title=Hijacked! TWA Flight 741 Revisited After 50 Years
|author=Rabbi Binyomin Zev Karman |date=October 5, 2020}}</ref>


After Hutner's death, the New York yeshiva was headed by his disciple [[Aaron Schechter]], and the Jerusalem branch was headed by his son-in-law [[Yonason David]].<ref name=RDavid.Hamodia/>
After Hutner's death, the New York yeshiva was headed by his disciple [[Aaron Schechter]], and the Jerusalem branch was headed by his son-in-law [[Yonason David]].<ref name=RDavid.Hamodia/> When Schechter died in 2023, the leadership of the yeshiva passed to his son-in-law Shlomo Halioua.<ref>Rudomin, Yitschak (August 27, 2023) [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376137 "The Passing of Rav Aaron Schechter, a Chief Disciple of Rav Yitzchok Hutner"], ''Arutz Sheva''. Retrieved September 28, 2023.</ref>


The position of ''[[mashgiach ruchani]]'' (spiritual supervisor) has been held by (among others) [[Avigdor Miller]],<ref>{{cite web
The position of ''[[mashgiach ruchani]]'' (spiritual supervisor) has been held by (among others) [[Avigdor Miller]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chareidi.org/archives5761/nasso/NSOfeatures.htm|title=The Rov Who Turned Baalebatim Into Bnei Yeshiva|author=M. Samsonowitz |date=May 30, 2001}}</ref> [[Shlomo Freifeld]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merkazlechinuch.com/kriah-clinic|title=The Kriah Clinic|quote=Rav Shlomo Freifeld zt”l related the following story: When Rav Shlomo was Mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabbi Chaim Berlin, one bochur ...}}</ref> [[Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)|Shlomo Carlebach]], Shimon Groner, and Mordechai Zelig Shechter.
|url=http://www.chareidi.org/archives5761/nasso/NSOfeatures.htm
|title=The Rov Who Turned Baalebatim Into Bnei Yeshiva
|author=M. Samsonowitz |date=May 30, 2001}}</ref> [[Shlomo Freifeld]],<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.merkazlechinuch.com/kriah-clinic
|title=The Kriah Clinic
|quote=Rav Shlomo Freifeld zt”l related the following story: When Rav Shlomo was Mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabbi Chaim Berlin, one bochur ...}}</ref> [[Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)|Shlomo Carlebach]], and Shimon Groner.


==Divisions==
==Divisions==
Chaim Berlin consists of a preschool, a ''yeshiva ketana'' (elementary school), a ''[[mesivta]]'' (high school), a college-level [[beth midrash]], and [[Kollel Gur Aryeh]], its post-graduate [[Kollel#Modern sense|kollel]] division. Total enrollment for all divisions approaches 2,000 students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://negevdirect.com/job/chaim-berlin-yeshiva/|title=Chaim Berlin Yeshiva |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Negev Direct Marketing |access-date=September 13, 2019 }}</ref> The ''mesivta'' acts as a feeder school for the beth midrash.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[New York Times]]
Chaim Berlin consists of a preschool, a ''yeshiva ketana'' (elementary school), a ''[[mesivta]]'' (high school), a college-level [[beth midrash]], and [[Kollel Gur Aryeh]], its post-graduate [[Kollel#Modern sense|kollel]] division. Total enrollment for all divisions approaches 2,000 students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://negevdirect.com/job/chaim-berlin-yeshiva/|title=Chaim Berlin Yeshiva |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Negev Direct Marketing |access-date=September 13, 2019 }}</ref> The ''mesivta'' acts as a feeder school for the beth midrash.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/magazine/status-is-for-orthodox-jews-studying-studying-and-more-studying.html|title=Status is ... for Orthodox Jews; Studying, Studying and More Studying|author=Binyamin Jolkovsky |date=November 15, 1998}}</ref> <!--- Lishma --><!--- vs. --><ref>Perkal, Harry (November 20, 2017) [https://forward.com/life/faith/388028/confessions-of-a-chaim-berlin-yeshiva-graduate/ "Confessions Of A Chaim Berlin Yeshiva Graduate"], ''Forward''</ref>
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/magazine/status-is-for-orthodox-jews-studying-studying-and-more-studying.html
|title=Status is ... for Orthodox Jews; Studying, Studying and More Studying
|author=Binyamin Jolkovsky |date=November 15, 1998}}</ref> <!--- Lishma --><!--- vs. --><ref>Perkal, Harry (November 20, 2017) [https://forward.com/life/faith/388028/confessions-of-a-chaim-berlin-yeshiva-graduate/ "Confessions Of A Chaim Berlin Yeshiva Graduate"], ''Forward''</ref>


The yeshiva maintains a summer location, Camp Morris, in [[Sullivan County, New York]].<ref>Feuerman, Alter Yisrael Shimon (September 25, 2013) [https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/144175/non-jews-help-jewish-world-function "Remember the Often Invisible Non-Jews Who Help the Jewish World Function"], ''Tablet''. Retrieved September 13, 2019.</ref>
The yeshiva maintains a summer location, Camp Morris, in [[Sullivan County, New York]].<ref>Feuerman, Alter Yisrael Shimon (September 25, 2013) [https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/144175/non-jews-help-jewish-world-function "Remember the Often Invisible Non-Jews Who Help the Jewish World Function"], ''Tablet''. Retrieved September 13, 2019.</ref> The Yeshiva also runs a summer youth program with the name Chaim Day Camp.


==Notable alumni==
==Notable alumni==
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===A-M===
===A-M===
* [[Shalom Berger|Shalom Z. Berger]] (born 1960), Senior Content Editor of the Koren Talmud Bavli
* [[Shalom Berger|Shalom Z. Berger]] (born 1960), Senior Content Editor of the Koren Talmud Bavli
* [[Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)|Shlomo Carlebach]] (1925–2022), former mashgiach ruchani of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
* [[Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)|Shlomo Carlebach]] (1925–2022), former mashgiach ruchani of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin<ref>[https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/2108019/petirah-of-rav-shlomo-carlebach-ztl-former-mashgiach-at-yeshivas-chaim-berlin.html "Petirah of Rav Shlomo Carlebach ZT”L, Former Mashgiach at Yeshivas Chaim Berlin"], ''The Yeshiva World'', July 21, 2022. Accessed September 19, 2023. "YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt”l, the former mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabeinu Chaim Berlin. He was 96."</ref>
* [[Shlomo Carlebach (musician)|Shlomo Carlebach]] (1925–1994), Rabbi, religious teacher, spiritual leader, composer, and singer
* [[Shlomo Carlebach (musician)|Shlomo Carlebach]] (1925–1994), rabbi, religious teacher, spiritual leader, composer, and singer<ref>[https://shlomocarlebachfoundation.org/about-reb-shlomo/ Reb Shlomo Carlebach Biography], Shlomo Carlebach Foundation. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Shlomo also studied at the Chaim Berlin Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and in 1954, received rabbinic ordination from its Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzhak Hutner."</ref>
* [[Yonasan David|Yonasan Dovid David]], co-rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
* [[Yonasan David|Yonasan Dovid David]], co-rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
* [[Yaakov Feitman]] (born 1948), rabbi of Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi, [[Cedarhurst, New York]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kbyt.org/ |title=Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi |publisher=Kbyt.org |access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
* [[Yaakov Feitman]] (born 1948), rabbi of Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi, [[Cedarhurst, New York]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kbyt.org/ |title=Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi |publisher=Kbyt.org |access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
* [[Aharon Feldman]] (born 1932), rosh yeshiva of [[Ner Israel Rabbinical College]]
* [[Aharon Feldman]] (born 1932), rosh yeshiva of [[Ner Israel Rabbinical College]]
* [[Shlomo Freifeld]] (1925–1990), founding rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas [[Shor Yoshuv]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/08/obituaries/shlomo-freifeld-rabbi-66.html "Shlomo Freifeld, Rabbi, 66"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 8, 1990. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Rabbi Freifeld was born in Brooklyn and was a disciple of Rabbi Isaac Hutner at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin. He later became dean of men there before founding Sh'or Yoshuv in 1967."</ref>
* [[Shlomo Freifeld]] (1925–1990), founding rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas [[Shor Yoshuv]]
* [[David Weiss Halivni]] (1927–2022), rabbi and professor of Talmud<ref>[[Joseph Berger (author)|Berger, Joseph]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/17/nyregion/david-weiss-halivni-dead.html "David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 17, 2022. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Although he knew no English, his reputation as a Talmudic scholar had reached Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, which invited him to undertake advanced Talmud study."</ref>
* [[David Weiss Halivni]] (1927–2022), rabbi and professor of Talmud
* [[David Hartman (rabbi)|David Hartman]] (1931–2013), American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher of contemporary Judaism, founder of the [[Shalom Hartman Institute]].<ref>Winer, Stuart. [https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberal-israeli-rabbi-philosopher-david-hartman-dies/ "Liberal rabbi-philosopher David Hartman dies"], ''[[The Times of Israel]]'', February 10, 2013. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Born in 1931 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, Hartman attended Yeshiva Chaim Berlin and the Lubavitch Yeshiva."</ref>
*[[ Akiva Eiger]]
* [[Yitzhak Aharon Korff]] (born 1949), Grand Rabbi of Zvhil-Mezbuz, Boston, and The Jerusalem Great Synagogue
* [[David Hartman (rabbi)|David Hartman]] (1931–2013), American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher of contemporary Judaism, founder of the [[Shalom Hartman Institute]].
* [[Simcha Krauss]] (1937–2022), retired rabbi of the [[Young Israel]] of [[Hillcrest, Queens]], and leader of the [[Religious Zionists of America]]
* [[Simcha Krauss]] (1937–2022), retired rabbi of the [[Young Israel]] of [[Hillcrest, Queens]], and leader of the [[Religious Zionists of America]]
* [[David Lefkowitz]] (1875–1955), chaplain United States Marines{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}
* [[David Lefkowitz]] (1875–1955), chaplain United States Marines{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}
* [[Aharon Lichtenstein]] (1933–2015), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], [[Alon Shevut]], and rosh kollel of [[Yeshiva University]]'s Gruss Kollel, Jerusalem
* [[Aharon Lichtenstein]] (1933–2015), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], [[Alon Shevut]], and rosh kollel of [[Yeshiva University]]'s Gruss Kollel, Jerusalem
* [[Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik]] (1886-1959), Rav of brisk


===N-Z===
===N-Z===
* [[Yaakov Perlow]] (1931–2020), the [[Novominsk (Hasidic dynasty)|Novominsker]] Rebbe of Borough Park<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/obituaries/rabbi-yaakov-perlow-dead.html|title=Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, Head of Hasidic Dynasty in Brooklyn|quote=He attended Yeshiva Toras Chaim and Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, N.J.|date=April 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://torahanytime.com/Rabbi/Yaakov_Perlow/index.html|title=Thousands of Free Torah Video and Audio Lectures By Hundreds of Rabbis and Speakers|publisher=TorahAnytime.com |access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
* [[Yaakov Perlow]] (1931–2020), the [[Novominsk (Hasidic dynasty)|Novominsker]] Rebbe of Borough Park<ref>{{cite news
|newspaper=[[New York Times]]
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/obituaries/rabbi-yaakov-perlow-dead.html
|title=Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, Head of Hasidic Dynasty in Brooklyn
|quote=He attended Yeshiva Toras Chaim and Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, N.J.
|date=April 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://torahanytime.com/Rabbi/Yaakov_Perlow/index.html
|title=Thousands of Free Torah Video and Audio Lectures By Hundreds of Rabbis and Speakers
|publisher=TorahAnytime.com |access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
* [[Yechiel Perr]] (born 1935), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshiva of Far Rockaway]]
* [[Yechiel Perr]] (born 1935), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshiva of Far Rockaway]]
* [[Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld]] (1922–1978), Polish–American rabbi and educator associated with the [[Breslov (Hasidic group)|Breslov]] Hasidic movement
* [[Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld]] (1922–1978), Polish–American rabbi and educator associated with the [[Breslov (Hasidic group)|Breslov]] Hasidic movement
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* [[Ahron Soloveichik]] (1917–2001), taught at Yeshiva University, [[Hebrew Theological College]] and Brisk Rabbinical College
* [[Ahron Soloveichik]] (1917–2001), taught at Yeshiva University, [[Hebrew Theological College]] and Brisk Rabbinical College
* [[Pinchas Stolper]] (1931–2022), former Executive Vice-President of the [[Orthodox Union]] and founder of [[NCSY]]
* [[Pinchas Stolper]] (1931–2022), former Executive Vice-President of the [[Orthodox Union]] and founder of [[NCSY]]
* Ephraim Sturm, Chaim Berlin Musmach, Exec. VP, National Council of Young Israel for 36 years<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/2300590/jewish/Keeping-Kosher-on-Campus.htm
|title=Keeping Kosher on Campus}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[New York Times]]
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/24/archives/obituary-4-no-title.html
|title=Deaths |quote=Rabbi Ephraim Sturm, Exec. V. P.}}</ref>
* [[Noah Weinberg]] (1930–2009), co-founder of Yeshivas Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem; founder of Yeshivas [[Aish HaTorah]]
* [[Noah Weinberg]] (1930–2009), co-founder of Yeshivas Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem; founder of Yeshivas [[Aish HaTorah]]
* [[Yaakov Weinberg]] (1923–1999), rosh yeshiva of [[Ner Israel Rabbinical College]]
* [[Yaakov Weinberg]] (1923–1999), rosh yeshiva of Ner Israel Rabbinical College
* [[Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub]] (1932–2010), rabbi
* [[Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub]] (1932–2010), rabbi
* [[Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman]] (1914-2017)
* [[Aaron Kotler]] (1891-1962)


==See also==
==See also==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{Official website|rabbinicalacademyrabbichaimberlin.com}}
* [http://hebrewbooks.org/11143 Hagadah of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]
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Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin
September 2020
Address
Map
1605 Coney Island Avenue

Brooklyn, New York

Vereinigte Staaten
Information
TypYeshiva
Established1904
AffiliationLithuanian-style Haredi
Rosh yeshivaYonasan Dovid David and Shlomo Halioua (current). Past: Aharon Schechter, Yaakov Moshe Shurkin, Yitzchak Hutner
Mashgiach ruchaniPast: Mordechai Zelig Schechter, Avigdor Miller, Shlomo Freifeld, Shlomo Carlebach, Shimon Groner
Websitehttps://rabbinicalacademyrabbichaimberlin.com

Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin or Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin (Hebrew: יְשִׁיבַת רַבֵּינוּ חַיִּים בֶּרלִין) is an American Haredi Lithuanian-type boys' and men's yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York.

Chaim Berlin consists of a preschool, a yeshiva ketana (elementary school), a mesivta (high school), a college-level beth midrash, and Kollel Gur Aryeh, its post-graduate kollel division.

History

The school was established in 1904 as Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim in Brownsville, Brooklyn, by Jews who moved there from the Lower East Side of New York City,[1] thus making it the oldest yeshiva in Kings County.[2] At the suggestion of Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan), it was renamed in 1914 for his brother, Chaim Berlin, Chief Rabbi of Moscow and later Jerusalem, and who had also served in Valozhyn, from where several of the yeshiva's founders came.[3][1]

Chaim Berlin's Mesivta (high school) was, for a while, located in Far Rockaway[4] headed by Shlomo Freifeld.[5]

The yeshiva's Stone & Pitkin (Brownsville) seven-story building, formerly known as the Municipal Bank Building,[6] was purchased in 1940;[7] Jacob Rutstein was their major philanthropist. [8]

Leadership

Aaron Schechter (white beard) celebrating Purim in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin during the late 1970s.

The founding rosh yeshiva, Yaakov Moshe Shurkin, served from 1936 until his death in 1963. Yitzchok Hutner joined the faculty during 1936–1937, and gave monthly lectures as rosh yeshiva from 1943 to 1980. In the late 1970s, a branch was opened in Jerusalem called Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok (Fear of Isaac).[9]

After Hutner's death, the New York yeshiva was headed by his disciple Aaron Schechter, and the Jerusalem branch was headed by his son-in-law Yonason David.[9] When Schechter died in 2023, the leadership of the yeshiva passed to his son-in-law Shlomo Halioua.[10]

The position of mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) has been held by (among others) Avigdor Miller,[11] Shlomo Freifeld,[12] Shlomo Carlebach, Shimon Groner, and Mordechai Zelig Shechter.

Divisions

Chaim Berlin consists of a preschool, a yeshiva ketana (elementary school), a mesivta (high school), a college-level beth midrash, and Kollel Gur Aryeh, its post-graduate kollel division. Total enrollment for all divisions approaches 2,000 students.[13] The mesivta acts as a feeder school for the beth midrash.[14] [15]

The yeshiva maintains a summer location, Camp Morris, in Sullivan County, New York.[16] The Yeshiva also runs a summer youth program with the name Chaim Day Camp.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni include many who served in rabbinic capacities throughout the world.

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References

  1. ^ a b (May 14, 1964) "Yeshiva Fire Loss Is $150,000; Brooklyn School Not Insured", The New York Times. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  2. ^ "Kabbalas Hatorah at Three Landmark Flatbush Yeshivos". Flatbush Jewish Journal. May 13, 2010. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  3. ^ Dr. Yitzchok Levine (May 5, 2016). "Brooklyn Yeshivas In The 1930s (Part I)". the Jewish Press.
  4. ^ Alvin Irwin Schiff (January 1966). The Jewish Day School in America. Jewish Education Committee Press. LCCN 66-19790.
  5. ^ "Shlomo Freifeld, Rabbi, 66". The New York Times. October 8, 1990.
  6. ^ "Convert Bank to High School Use Alteration of the former Municipal Bank Building, Stone and Pitkin Aves". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 23, 1940.
  7. ^ "Realty Activities; BROOKLYN BUILDING BOUGHT FROM BANK 7-Story Brownsville". The New York Times. January 26, 1940.
  8. ^ "Boro Bundles Benefit". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 16, 1942. p. 10. Jewish School Raises $15,500 ... Yeshiva and Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin
  9. ^ a b Rabbi Binyomin Zev Karman (October 5, 2020). "Hijacked! TWA Flight 741 Revisited After 50 Years". Hamodia.
  10. ^ Rudomin, Yitschak (August 27, 2023) "The Passing of Rav Aaron Schechter, a Chief Disciple of Rav Yitzchok Hutner", Arutz Sheva. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
  11. ^ M. Samsonowitz (May 30, 2001). "The Rov Who Turned Baalebatim Into Bnei Yeshiva".
  12. ^ "The Kriah Clinic". Rav Shlomo Freifeld zt"l related the following story: When Rav Shlomo was Mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabbi Chaim Berlin, one bochur ...
  13. ^ "Chaim Berlin Yeshiva". Negev Direct Marketing. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  14. ^ Binyamin Jolkovsky (November 15, 1998). "Status is ... for Orthodox Jews; Studying, Studying and More Studying". New York Times.
  15. ^ Perkal, Harry (November 20, 2017) "Confessions Of A Chaim Berlin Yeshiva Graduate", Forward
  16. ^ Feuerman, Alter Yisrael Shimon (September 25, 2013) "Remember the Often Invisible Non-Jews Who Help the Jewish World Function", Tablet. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  17. ^ "Petirah of Rav Shlomo Carlebach ZT”L, Former Mashgiach at Yeshivas Chaim Berlin", The Yeshiva World, July 21, 2022. Accessed September 19, 2023. "YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt”l, the former mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabeinu Chaim Berlin. He was 96."
  18. ^ Reb Shlomo Carlebach Biography, Shlomo Carlebach Foundation. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Shlomo also studied at the Chaim Berlin Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and in 1954, received rabbinic ordination from its Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzhak Hutner."
  19. ^ "Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi". Kbyt.org. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  20. ^ "Shlomo Freifeld, Rabbi, 66", The New York Times, October 8, 1990. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Rabbi Freifeld was born in Brooklyn and was a disciple of Rabbi Isaac Hutner at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin. He later became dean of men there before founding Sh'or Yoshuv in 1967."
  21. ^ Berger, Joseph. "David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94", The New York Times, July 17, 2022. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Although he knew no English, his reputation as a Talmudic scholar had reached Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, which invited him to undertake advanced Talmud study."
  22. ^ Winer, Stuart. "Liberal rabbi-philosopher David Hartman dies", The Times of Israel, February 10, 2013. Accessed September 19, 2023. "Born in 1931 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, Hartman attended Yeshiva Chaim Berlin and the Lubavitch Yeshiva."
  23. ^ "Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, Head of Hasidic Dynasty in Brooklyn". New York Times. April 16, 2020. He attended Yeshiva Toras Chaim and Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, N.J.
  24. ^ "Thousands of Free Torah Video and Audio Lectures By Hundreds of Rabbis and Speakers". TorahAnytime.com. Retrieved 2019-09-12.

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