Rabbi Aryeh Silber is the author of Hachi Garsinan (Israel Bookshop), a guide to Aramaic words in the Talmud
Where did you get the idea?
I was a rebbi for 11- and 12-year-old boys in a chassidish yeshivah, third year of learning Gemara, and then I started tutoring. I realized a lot of boys have problems figuring out the words of Gemara this is usually the third language they’re exposed to, after Yiddish or English and Hebrew and they get confused between “mani” and “nami,” and “hacha” and “heicha” and so on and so forth. I decided to make a list of the basic few hundred words with the teitsh on the side, and I’d give it out to all the yeshivos. That list is now a hardcover book in its fourth printing.
Shanghai to Telz to Baltimore: Chaya Milevsky’s Life Story
Home → Shanghai to Telz to Baltimore: Chaya Milevsky’s Life Story
zt”l, a
musmach
of Ner Israel yeshiva, was the former Chief Rabbi of Mexico and
founder/lecturer at Ohr Somayach Toronto. Chaya shared her incredible life
story with me.
My paternal
grandfather was a big Rav, first in Germany and then in England. My father,
Rabbi Hillel Mannes,
zt”l, was considered intellectual and went to
university in Bavaria. He was in the middle of writing a thesis on “The Talmud
and Freud’s Psychoanalysis” when he found a sign on the university door, one