Title: The fire of Torah : firsthand stories of Rav Aharon Kotler and his struggle for Torah in America / compiled by Rabbi Eliyahu Beane.
Material Type: Book
Subject: Kotler, Aaron,--1892-1962
Subject: Bet midrash gavoha (Lakewood, N.J.)
Subject: Rabbis--New Jersey--Lakewood--Anecdotes
Subject: Yeshivot--New Jersey--Lakewood
Description: Foreword by / Rabbi Eliyahu Beane -- A grandson's perspective / Rabbi Zevulun Schwartzman -- His right-hand man / Rabbi Amos Bunim -- From Shanghai to Lakewood / Rabbi Zev Wolf Tikotsky -- Representing Chinuch Atzmai / Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Bittersfeld -- A Talmid from Kletzk / Rabbi Nochum Zeldes -- Crying one's way into Lakewood / Rabbi Hershel Rosenhan -- A Canadian Talmud / Rabbi Abraham Tenenbaum -- The Bochen who didn't get a Bechinah / Rabbi Yisrael Taplin -- "A Zman is a Zman!" / Rabbi Dov Wolowitz -- Just a kid / Rabbi Yaakov Mueller -- A working Bachur comes to learn / Rabbi Eliezer Kuperman.
Description: From Lakewood visitor to Talmid / Rabbi Zvi Yosef Burstyn -- Reflections on a vanished world / Rabbi Marvin Jacob -- One son for Torah / Rabbi Naftoli Hirshfeld -- Brother of the Talmid Muvhak / Rabbi Yaakov Eisemann -- A prime student / Rabbi Meir Hartstein -- Torah in Mid-America / Rabbi Asher Green -- Seeing the fire of Torah / Rabbi Alexander Naftali Dershowitz -- Concern for the individual / Rabbi Shmuel Blech -- The education of a Shochet / Rabbi Moshe Heinemann -- A link in the chain / Rabbi Shlomo Eliyahu Miller -- Three amazing stories / Rabbi Shlomo B. Shapiro -- The final days / Rabbi Shmuel Klein.
Description: "The fire of Rav Aharon Kotler and his mesirus nefesh for Torah in America are captured in these amazing first hand accounts of students and askanim from 1940 to early 1960. Each unforgettable story is told by a person who was there and actually witnessed it unfold, recreating the experience of being in Rav Aharon's presence."--Back cover.
Date of Publication: [2017]
Place of Publication: Jerusalem :
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers,
Date: 2017