New Book: Torah Vodaas & Lubavitch

By COLlive reporter

A new book was released this week exploring the relationship between Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz of Torah Vodaas and Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson of Chabad.

The author, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, adds this monumental work to his highly popular books, Rav and Rebbe, Rabbi Hutner and Rebbe, The Real Shlomo, Satmar and Lubavitch and Lakewood and Lubavitch.

The book has extensive endnotes, which are not just an adjunct to the book but a complementary source for better understanding the text.

Additionally, the book has a first-ever letter published from Rabbi Moshe Wolfson, the Mashgiach of Torah Vodaas to the Rebbe about two of his prize students leaving Torah Vodaas for the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim – 770.

The book has unique pictures and documents from Rabbi Shmuel Kuselewitz, the former Masmich who gave rabbinic ordination at Torah Vodaas from the 1940s to 1960s. A partial copy of his will is published showing he left money to Lubavitch. Finally, the book mentions over 100 hundred students who learned either in Torah Vodaas, Lubavitch or both from 1919 to 2019.

Some other important issues discussed in this book are:

· Why was Reb Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz opposed to students going to the Malach?
· How did Reb Yisroel Jacobson inspire TV students to learn Chassidus?
· What did Rabbi Moshe Wolfson write to the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1971 about his two star students who wanted to transfer to Lubavitcher Yeshiva at 770?
· What did Rabbi Belsky say about the Tanya shiur at TV? Why did Rabbi Lebowitz leave TV in 1933? Is TV a Chasidic or Litvish yeshiva?
· What type of relationship was there between Rabbi Mendlowitz and the Rebbe Raayatz?
· Why did Reb Aron Kotler stop Rabbi Mendlowitz from opening a “kosher” college?
· Rabbi Mendlowitz was a Chasid of the Baal HaTanya!

The Jewish world both academic and lay world will welcome this to its important scholarship for future generations.

List of people mentioned in the book:
Yosef Abrahams
Mordechai Altein
Yehoshua Balkany
Avraham Barnetsky
Yisrael Belsky
Philip Berg
Yehuda Biston
Zalman Blesofsky
Moshe Bogomilsky
Shmuel P Bogomilsky
Yitzchak Brandwein
Yaakov Peretz Bluming
Eli Chaim Carlebach
Shlomo Carlebach
Yossi Chazan
Yitzchak Chinn
Hirshel Chitrik
Mechel Diament
Mendel Feldman
Pinchus Feldman
Sholom Feldman
Yitzchak Feldman
Moshe Feller
Yitzchak Flohr
Yosef Flohr
Hershel Fogelman
Yehoshua Geldzahler
Alexander Gross
Zanvil Gertner
Nosson Elye Gertzulin
Nissan Gordon
Sholom Ber Gordon
Abba Gorelick
Yerucham Gorelick
Meir Greenberg
Sholom B. Gurary
Yaakov Halberstam
Berel Havlin
Avraham Hecht
Moshe Hecht
Peretz Hecht
Shlomo Zalman Hecht
Sholom Hecht
Yaakov Yehuda Hecht
Joel Hess
Azriel Heuman
Shimshon Heuman
Yoel Kahan
Joseph Kaminetsky
Moshe Kannar
Chaim Leib Katz
Eliezer Katzman
Yitzchak Kolodny
Moshe Y Konikov
Gedalia Korf
Shmuel Kuselewitz
Issac Lefkowitz
Shnayer Zalman Leiman
Berel Levy
Shmuel Lew
Alexander Linchner
Chaim Meir Lustig
Hershel Lustig
Menachem Mandel
Yaakov Mayteles
Feivel Mendlowitz
Paul Mendlowitz
Shmuel Mendlowitz
Shraga Mendlowitz
Avraham Pam
Meir Plotkin
Yehuda L Posner
Zalman Posner
Nesanel Quinn
Yosef Raices
Shmuel D. Raichik
Moshe Rapaport
Moshe Dovber Rivkin
Yisrael Rubin
Shraga Schiff
Gedalia Schorr
Yaakov Schorr
Velvel Schildkraut
Simcha Schustel
Elias Schwartz
Chaim Septimus
Louis Septimus
Menachem Shaingarten
Mordechai Sharfstein
Zelig Sharfstein
Hershel Shusterman
Elimelech Silberberg
Dovid Thaler
Nosson Meir Wachtfogel
Bentzion Weberman
Pinchus Weberman
Yehuda Weberman
Shlomo Weg
Chaim Werner
Simcha Werner
Binyamin Wilhelm
Yehoshua Wilhelm
Avraham Weingarten
Yaakov Winter
Dovid Yarmush
Meir Zainitz
Asher Zeilengold
Eliezer Zirkind

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