History of Eastern European Yeshivot - Mir - December 16

Responsa - December 15

History of Eastern European Yeshivot - Mir - December 9

Responsa - December 8

Doing Teshuva. Memoir Literature Dealing With Mir Yeshiva. Shlomo Zaltzman's Memoir of Mir Yeshiva Pre-WW I. Essen Taig. R' Eliyahu Boruch Kamai, R' Avraham Tzvi Kamai and R' Eliezer Yehuda Finkel. R' Velvel Soloveitchik and His Students.

R’ Menashe Klein in Mishneh Halachot 9:406–409: Various Issues in Providing Initial Guidance to a Baal Teshuvah. What May or Should Be Done to Dissuade a Sibling from Marrying a Gentile. What Was Permitted to Be Done for Soviet Jewry.

The Move of Mir Yeshiva to Kobe, Japan and Then to Shanghai. Why and How the Japanese Treated Mir Yeshiva More or Less Nicely. Why Memoir Literature Did Not Exist before the 1800s.

R’ Menashe Klein in Mishneh Halachot. Bat Nidah. When Should We Not Mekarev Someone? Limited Resources Should Not Be Totally Taken Away from Frum from Birth Jews for Kiruv Purposes. Attending University. Becoming Frum but Only after Pesach.

Mir Yeshiva Post WW I With Some Emphasis on the Effects of the Composition of the Student Body and Then The First Stages of Its Escape From Europe Focusing on the Personalities and Institutions Who Played Crucial Roles

R' Menashe Klein in Mishneh Halachot 13:166-8: Divulging a Pegam פגם of Someone Where There is no Halakhic Violation That Will Result from the Existence of the Pegam and Marriage is Involved

The Growth of Mir Yeshiva and its Increasing Influence on the Torah World. Mir Flees Poland and Then Returns. Impact of WW I. Mussar Movement. American Jews Support Mir Yeshiva. German Orthodoxy. Brisk. Some of the Great Graduates of Mir Yeshiva.

R' Menashe Klein: Conversions in the USSR in the 1980s (Mishneh Halachot 13:164-5). Converting a Minor. Mother is Gentile, Father Jewish. 13:166: Should a Learned, Capable Teacher Leave the Soviet Union? Essas Family

Final Comments on Volozhin Yeshiva. The Quiet Beginning of Mir Yeshiva in 1815. The Primitive Nature of the City of Mir. The Early Years of Mir Yeshiva. It's Founder and Ensuing Roshei Yeshiva.

Overview of Talmud Bavli Sources on Conversion. R' Menashe Klein: Conversions in the USSR in the 1980s (Mishneh Halachot 13:164-5). Converting a Minor.

The Movement of the Litvish Torah World from Europe to America. The Improvement in Torah Education After the Civil War in the US. R' Shlomo Polachek—The Meitscheter Illui. Others Who Came to America After R' Polachek.

The Yeshiva in Volozhin (As Opposed to Volozhin Yeshiva): It's Reopening in 1899. Description of How it Functioned and of the Individuals Who Taught and Studied There. Their Accomplishments After Leaving the Yeshiva.

History of Eastern European Yeshivot - September 30

R' Menashe Klein: Teach Torah Only in Hebrew (Mishneh Halachot 13:161). Alternate Opinion: Using Other Languages is Very Important. R' Bronspigel. Chabad. Zionism and Hebrew. Conversions. Converting a Minor. An Evaluation of R' Shlomo Carlebach.

Volozhin Yeshiva: The Role of Secular Education in Causing the Closing of the Yeshiva. R' Chaim Berlin's Letter. The Attitude Toward Secular Education in Volozhin. Rav Soloveitchik's Admiration of YU, It's Teachers, and It's Students.

Volozhin Yeshiva: What Led to the Closing of the Yeshiva on February 2, 1892. The Attitude Toward Secular Education in Volozhin Compared to YU. How the Opening of the Russian Secret Police Archive Changed What We Thought.