It was with great pleasure that the news were received in Russia of twelve newly ordained rabbis.
They had successfully passed testing by Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar, Rabbi of Nachalas Har Chabad in Kiryat Malachi, Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda Yeroslowsky, Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Menachem Mendel Goldberg, and head of the Smicha Institute at the yeshiva, Rabbi Dovid Rozentzweig. This came after a number of years of intensive studying under the yeshiva’s esteemed Rabbis and Magidei Shiurim.
Yeshiva Gedola “Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch” which is near the town of Sofrino, in Moscow’s suburbs, has been offering a special Smicha learning track for a number of years. During this time dozens of Rabbis were ordained with many of them working as practicing Rabbis in Jewish communities throughout Russia, assisting the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s shluchim in their holy work of reviving yiddishkeit all over Russia and the Former Soviet Union.
The success of this yeshiva, which was the first of all the yeshivas that opened their doors in Moscow during the past twenty years – is in addition to the successful studies taking place in the other three Chabad yeshivas of Moscow, thus giving an opportunity to many young men to quench their spiritual thirst. Each of the four yeshiva is geared for a different learning style, which enables each student to find the place that is best suited for him to learn Torah and grow in Chassidishkeit and Yiras Shamayim.
