Comments on: Learning by Candlelight, Leading with Fire: The Boider Rov’s Legacy

By: Historical researcher

Historical researcher — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:41:41 +0000

Rabbi Medalye became rabbi in Moscow during the end of 1933, and he was arrested in the beginning of 1938; he was rabbi of Moscow for just a little over 4 years.

The famous historian of Russian Jewish communities in the Soviet Union, AA Romanov (Gershuni) writes in his Hebrew book יהודים ויהדות בברית המועצות״ (=Jews and Judaism in the USSR) page 76-77:
In addition to the chief rabbi of Moscow there served as Rabbis of Moscow also the Boider Rav and Rabbi Zakheim.

A Mr. Greenbaum’s ignorance doesn’t change the facts

By: Correction

Correction — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:22:35 +0000

There was no title or post of chief Rabbi of Moscow or Russia until 1990.
The official Rav of the shul you mention in Moscow was Rav Noson Nota Olevsky after 1944 until 1966.(IIndD R Shub died in 1940)Rav Goldfeun whom you mention was the son in law of the Rogochover gain of Dvinsk.
Abraham Greenbaum of the Hebrew Univ compiled a list of Russian rabbinim who served until 1941.A search fails to note Rabbi Shub Certainly if he were chief rabbi of Russia Dr Greenbaum would have noted him as he included dozens of Chabad rabbinim.
If anyone held the titles note prior to 1990 and after 1941 it were rabbis Schlieffen or Levin.As I noted the closest post to what you mention between 1918-1941 was the kadosh Rav Shmaryahu leib Madalie Hyd,

By: Corrections

Corrections — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:07:50 +0000

While publicity may be a worthwhile effort,at times it hardly intersects with the truth.
This is an interesting article about an unknown zadfik.But the position of chief Rabbi of Russia or Moscow never existed..Only after 1990 did this position assume reality.
The chief shul in Moscow was the Choral shul with it’s many minyonim and Chabadnitze. If any Rav was deserving of a chief Rabbi title it was Rabbis Medalie,Schlieffen or Levin.
The Marina Roschina shul was a wooden shul in a Moscow suburb whose official Rav was Rav Noson Nota Olevsky,who was a mechaber of seforim.Rabbi Olevsky died in his 90s in the mid 1960s.
The late Avrohom Green aim published a fine list of rabbinim in the USSR until 1941 including many Chabad rabbinim like Rabbis Yankev Meskelik,Levi Y Schneersohn,Shmuel Levin, and many others,but I see no mention of Rav Sub,certainly if he were chief Rabbi of Russia,Dr Greenbaum would have noted him.
Nothing I write here is to be taken as critical of Rav Shub,rather chachomim hizharu bedivreichem !

By: Relative

Relative — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:07:34 +0000

Correction; His son was R Gershon Bentzion Shubov and his grandson was R Moshe Shubov.

By: Correction

Correction — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:59:08 +0000

R’ Mordechai Dovber Lokshin.
It is told that the Rebbe Rashab stood up for the Boida Rov in recognition of his scholarship.