Mir Rosh Yeshiva’s Shiur Found in Swiss Genizah Published in Moscow

Marking 20 years since the establishment of the central Tomchei Temimim yeshiva ketana in Istra, outside Moscow, the yeshiva has published a new volume of Armia Admora, bringing together ha’aros, biurim and chiddushim in Nigleh, Chassidus and the Rebbe’s Torah.

The yeshiva was established by Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar, and over the past two decades has grown into a major center of Torah learning in Russia, with many of its alumni today serving as Shluchim around the world.

A large portion of the new sefer is devoted to Maseches Bava Basra, which was learned in the yeshiva during the past year. It also includes pilpulim and ha’aros on Likkutei Sichos, following an intensive winter learning campaign in volume 25 of Likkutei Sichos.

Among the highlights of the sefer is the first publication of four rare maanos from the Rebbe to Rabbi DovBer Levy, addressing various matters connected with activities behind the Iron Curtain.

Another section, titled Dovev Sifsei Yeshenim, includes a previously unpublished shiur from Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, one of the Roshei Yeshiva of Mir, which was discovered in the genizah of the Chabad House in Lugano, Switzerland.

The sefer also includes historic halachic responsa from Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Chaikin and Rabbi Zalman Antzilevich, who served as rabbonim in the Soviet Union, as well as an extensive correspondence between Rabbi Lazar and Rabbi Chaim Lieberman of Yerushalayim.

The sefer opens with selections from the Rebbe’s Torah discussing the significance of a twentieth year. Following the Rebbe’s instruction to the hanhala of the central Tomchei Temimim at 770, the ha’aros are arranged alphabetically rather than divided by subject, emphasizing that all areas are part of one Torah.

The project was published with the support and encouragement of yeshiva director Rabbi Chaim Moshe Weber, with extensive editing and coordination by R”M and mashpia Rabbi Chanan Teichtel, under the leadership of current Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Lerman, who continues the foundations established by former Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Mordechai Yona Klein.

The publication carries particular significance in Moscow, where generations of Chassidim once risked their freedom and lives to preserve Torah and Yiddishkeit under Communist rule, and where Temimim today learn Torah openly in a flourishing yeshiva.

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