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Keser Torah Radomsk (Hebrew: כתר תורה רדומסק), also transliterated Keter Torah Radomsk, is the name of yeshivas and kollels in Israel and the United States affiliated with the Radomsk Hasidic dynasty. The name was originally coined for a network of 36 yeshivas in pre-war Poland founded by the fourth Radomsker rebbe, Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz, and led by his son-in-law David Moshe Rabinowicz.

Establishment in Poland

In 1926 Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz announced his plan for a network of Radomsker yeshivas.

Soon afterwards^[when?] eight yeshivas were opened in Będzin, Podgórze, Chrzanów, Wolbrom, Oświęcim, Częstochowa, Łódź and Kraków.^[1]^[2] In Sosnowiec Rabinowicz also founded Kibbutz Govoha, a high-level study group exclusively for advanced students and avreichim (married students). He appointed his son-in-law and first cousin, David Moshe Rabinowicz to head it.^[3] He also served as rosh yeshiva of the Keser Torah network.^[1]

By 1930, nine yeshivas and the kibbutz were functioning. On the eve of World War II there were 36 Keser Torah yeshivas enrolling over 4,000 students in Poland.

Though Hasidic in nature, the yeshivas did not promote Radomsker Hasidism, nor were students and staff exclusively Radomsker Hasidim.^[1] (In Sosnowiec, for example, the rosh yeshiva was a Ger Hasid.^[4]) Each yeshiva had its own rosh yeshiva and initially studied its own masechta (section of the Talmud); later, all the yeshivas studied the same masechta at the same time.^[2]

With the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the yeshivas disbanded.^[1] Shlomo and David Rabinowicz were both imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto.^[1]^[5] Shlomo Rabinowicz and his family, including his only daughter and son-in-law and their infant son, were murdered by Nazis who shot them to death on 1 August 1942.^[2]

Rebirth in Israel

After World War II, Radomsker Hasidim and Keser Torah yeshiva students who had survived the Holocaust founded Kollel Keser Torah in Bnei Brak, Israel.^[1]^[6] In 1965 they asked Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain, son of the Sochatchover rebbe and a nephew of David Moshe Rabinowicz, to head the kollel. Bornsztain, who became known as the Sochatchover-Radomsker rebbe, died in an automobile accident in 1969.^[7] After Bornsztain's death, his eldest son, Shmuel Bornsztain, became head of Kollel Keser Torah.^[1]

Locations

Bnei Brak, Israel: Kollel Keser Torah opened in the 1940s.

Jerusalem, Israel: Yeshiva Gedola Keser Torah Radomsk opened in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood in 1996. Like its namesake in pre-war Poland, the yeshiva includes a kibbutz govoha (high-level study group) for advanced students and avreichim (married students).^[1]

Lakewood, New Jersey: Kollel Keser Torah Radomsk, an evening kollel, opened in 2000.^[1]

Montreal, Canada: Kollel Keser Torah Radomsk opened in 1986. Its founding president was Pinhas Hirschprung, the Chief Rabbi of Montreal.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Keser Torah Radomsk". radomsk.org. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c Tannenbaum, Rabbi Gershon (7 April 2009). "Radomsker Rebbe's Yahrzeit". The Jewish Press. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
^ Rabinowicz, Tzvi (1988). Hasidism: The movement and its masters. J. Aronson. p. 276. ISBN 0-87668-998-5.
^ Rabinowicz, Harry M. (1970). The World of Hasidism. London: Vallentine, Mitchell. p. 168. ISBN 9780853030355.
^ Kaliv World Center (2002). Shema Yisrael: Testimonies of devotion, courage, and self-sacrifice, 1939-1945. Targum Press. pp. 329–330. ISBN 1-56871-271-5.
^ Benisch, Pearl (1991). To Vanquish the Dragon. Feldheim Publishers. p. 38. ISBN 0-87306-570-0.
^ Growise, Yisroel Alter. "The Sochatchover Rebbe, Harav Menachem Shlomo Bornstein, zt"l, 40 Years Since His Tragic Passing". Hamodia Features section, 27 August 2009, pp. C4-5.

[history-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Keser Torah Radomsk". radomsk.org. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 21 January 2012.

[press-2] Tannenbaum, Rabbi Gershon (7 April 2009). "Radomsker Rebbe's Yahrzeit". The Jewish Press. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.

[zvi-3] Rabinowicz, Tzvi (1988). Hasidism: The movement and its masters. J. Aronson. p. 276. ISBN 0-87668-998-5.

[4] Rabinowicz, Harry M. (1970). The World of Hasidism. London: Vallentine, Mitchell. p. 168. ISBN 9780853030355.

[5] Kaliv World Center (2002). Shema Yisrael: Testimonies of devotion, courage, and self-sacrifice, 1939-1945. Targum Press. pp. 329–330. ISBN 1-56871-271-5.

[6] Benisch, Pearl (1991). To Vanquish the Dragon. Feldheim Publishers. p. 38. ISBN 0-87306-570-0.

[tragic-7] Growise, Yisroel Alter. "The Sochatchover Rebbe, Harav Menachem Shlomo Bornstein, zt"l, 40 Years Since His Tragic Passing". Hamodia Features section, 27 August 2009, pp. C4-5.

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-'''Keser Torah Radomsk''' ({{lang-he|כתר תורה רדומסק}}), also spelled '''Keter Torah Radomsk''', is the name of [[yeshiva]]s and [[kollel]]s in Israel and the United States affiliated with the [[Radomsk (Hasidic dynasty)|Radomsk]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] [[List of Hasidic dynasties|dynasty]]. The name was originally coined for a network of 36 yeshivas in pre-war [[Poland]] founded by the fourth Radomsker [[Rebbe]], Rabbi [[Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz|Shlomo Chanoch Hakohen Rabinowicz]].
+'''Keser Torah Radomsk''' ({{langx|he|כתר תורה רדומסק}}), also transliterated '''Keter Torah Radomsk''', is the name of [[yeshiva]]s and [[kollel]]s in Israel and the United States affiliated with the [[Radomsk (Hasidic dynasty)|Radomsk]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] dynasty. The name was originally coined for a network of 36 yeshivas in pre-war [[Poland]] founded by the fourth Radomsker [[rebbe]], [[Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz]], and led by his son-in-law [[David Moshe Rabinowicz]].
 ==Establishment in Poland==
+In 1926 [[Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz]] announced his plan for a network of Radomsker yeshivas.
-World War I uprooted hundreds of thousands of Eastern European Jews and decimated established communities. Thousands of ''[[shtiebel]]ach'' (small houses of prayer and study) in which Hasidic youth traditionally learned the customs and lore of their dynasties were destroyed.<ref name="history"/> On [[Lag BaOmer]] 1926, Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Hakohen Rabinowicz, the fourth Radomsker Rebbe and a prominent Polish Hasidic leader, announced his plan to innovate a new trend in Hasidic education before a gathering of Radomsker Hasidim. He declared:
-<blockquote>"The time has come to found yeshivas where the younger generation will be able to learn and toil in Torah. We must plant the light of Torah in every city in Poland. Until now, everybody learned where he desired and what he desired. Times have changed and today the necessity is to set up organized yeshivas and appoint roshei yeshivas who will educate our youth. The yeshivas will be called Keser Torah".<ref name="press"/></blockquote>
-Soon after the Rebbe's announcement, eight yeshivas were opened &ndash; in [[Będzin]], [[Podgórz]]{{dn|date=April 2017}}, [[Chrzanów|Kshanov]], [[Valbaram]], [[Ushpazin]], [[Czanstechav]], [[Łódź]] and [[Kraków]].<ref name="history"/><ref name="press">{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=38878 |title=Radomsker Rebbe's Yahrzeit |work=[[The Jewish Press]] |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rabbi Gershon |date=7 April 2009 |accessdate=21 January 2012}}</ref> In the city of [[Sosnowiec]], the Rebbe also founded Kibbutz Govoha, a high-level study group exclusively for advanced students and ''avreichim'' (married students). He appointed his new son-in-law, Rabbi David Moshe Hakohen Rabinowicz (1906&ndash;1942), a brilliant Torah scholar, to head it. Rabbi David Moshe, a first cousin of the Rebbe, married the Rebbe's only daughter in 1929.<ref name="zvi">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=ZCAbTrnbCs-0hAfb_4DNBQ&ct=result&id=dmEFAAAAMAAJ&dq=tzvi+rabinowicz+hasidim+radomsk&q=moses+david+hakohen+rabinowicz |page=276 |title=Hasidism: The movement and its masters |year=1988 |publisher=J. Aronson |last=Rabinowicz |first=Tzvi |isbn=0-87668-998-5}}</ref> He also served as [[rosh yeshiva]] of the entire Keser Torah network, monitoring students' progress, delivering ''[[Shiur (Torah)|shiurim]]'', and administering the end of the semester tests.<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://www.radomsk.org/radomskerhistory.html |title=Keser Torah Radomsk |publisher=radomsk.org|accessdate=21 January 2012}}</ref>
+Soon afterwards{{when|date=January 2023}} eight yeshivas were opened in [[Będzin]], [[Podgórze]], [[Chrzanów]], [[Wolbrom]], [[Oświęcim]], [[Częstochowa]], [[Łódź]] and [[Kraków]].<ref name="history"/><ref name="press">{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=38878 |title=Radomsker Rebbe's Yahrzeit |work=[[The Jewish Press]] |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rabbi Gershon |date=7 April 2009 |accessdate=21 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615210441/http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=38878 |archivedate=15 June 2012 }}</ref> In [[Sosnowiec]] Rabinowicz also founded Kibbutz Govoha, a high-level study group exclusively for advanced students and ''avreichim'' (married students). He appointed his son-in-law and first cousin, [[David Moshe Rabinowicz]] to head it.<ref name="zvi">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dmEFAAAAMAAJ&q=moses+david+hakohen+rabinowicz |page=276 |title=Hasidism: The movement and its masters |year=1988 |publisher=J. Aronson |last=Rabinowicz |first=Tzvi |isbn=0-87668-998-5}}</ref> He also served as [[rosh yeshiva]] of the Keser Torah network.<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://www.radomsk.org/radomskerhistory.html |title=Keser Torah Radomsk |publisher=radomsk.org |accessdate=21 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218154911/http://www.radomsk.org/radomskerhistory.html |archive-date=2012-02-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
-By 1930, nine yeshivas and the kibbutz were functioning. Over the following decade, more yeshivas were added.<ref name="press"/> On the eve of World War II, there were 36 Keser Torah yeshivas enrolling over 4,000 students in Poland and [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]].<ref name="history"/><ref name="press"/>
+By 1930, nine yeshivas and the kibbutz were functioning. On the eve of World War II there were 36 Keser Torah yeshivas enrolling over 4,000 students in Poland.
-Though Hasidic in nature, the yeshivas did not promote Radomsker Hasidism, nor were students and staff exclusively Radomsker Hasidim.<ref name="history"/> (In Sosnowiec, for example, the rosh yeshiva was a [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]] Hasid.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECoRAQAAIAAJ&dq=radomsk+bnei+brak&q=radomsk |page=168 |title=The World of Hasidism |last=Rabinowicz |first=Harry M. |publisher=Vallentine, Mitchell |location=London|year=1970}}</ref>) Each yeshiva had its own rosh yeshiva and initially studied its own ''masechta'' (section of the [[Talmud]]); later, all the yeshivas studied the same ''masechta'' at the same time.<ref name="press"/> To encourage a high level of learning, the yeshiva network also produced its own Torah journal containing the best ''chidushim'' (original Torah thoughts) by students, together with ''shiurim'' by the rosh yeshivas.<ref name="history"/> The Radomsker Rebbe paid for the entire operation, including staff salaries, food, and student lodging, out of his own pocket.<ref name="history"/><ref name="press"/>
+Though Hasidic in nature, the yeshivas did not promote Radomsker Hasidism, nor were students and staff exclusively Radomsker Hasidim.<ref name="history"/> (In Sosnowiec, for example, the rosh yeshiva was a [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]] Hasid.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECoRAQAAIAAJ&q=radomsk |page=168 |title=The World of Hasidism |last=Rabinowicz |first=Harry M. |publisher=Vallentine, Mitchell |location=London|year=1970|isbn=9780853030355 }}</ref>) Each yeshiva had its own rosh yeshiva and initially studied its own ''masechta'' (section of the [[Talmud]]); later, all the yeshivas studied the same ''masechta'' at the same time.<ref name="press"/>
-With the German [[invasion of Poland]] in 1939, the yeshivas disbanded.<ref name="history"/> The Radomsker Rebbe and Rabbi Dovid Moshe Rabinowicz were both incarcerated in the [[Warsaw Ghetto]], where the latter continued to give regular ''shiurim''.<ref name="history"/><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=OkEsTsPhIom0hAf24sWqCw&ct=result&id=29mfAAAAMAAJ&dq=shema+yisrael&q=radomsk |title=Shema Yisrael: Testimonies of devotion, courage, and self-sacrifice, 1939-1945 |author=[[Kaliv (Hasidic dynasty)|Kaliv]] World Center |year=2002 |isbn=1-56871-271-5 |pages=329&ndash;330}}</ref> The Rebbe and all the members of his family, including his only daughter, son-in-law, and their infant son, were shot to death during the ''Aktion'' of 1 August 1942.<ref name="press"/>
+With the German [[invasion of Poland]] in 1939, the yeshivas disbanded.<ref name="history"/> Shlomo and David Rabinowicz were both imprisoned in the [[Warsaw Ghetto]].<ref name="history"/><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29mfAAAAMAAJ&q=radomsk |title=Shema Yisrael: Testimonies of devotion, courage, and self-sacrifice, 1939-1945 |author=[[Kaliv (Hasidic dynasty)|Kaliv]] World Center |year=2002 |isbn=1-56871-271-5 |pages=329&ndash;330|publisher=Targum Press }}</ref> Shlomo Rabinowicz and his family, including his only daughter and son-in-law and their infant son, were murdered by Nazis who shot them to death on 1 August 1942.<ref name="press"/>
 ==Rebirth in Israel==
-After World War II, Radomsker Hasidim and Keser Torah yeshiva students who had survived the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] founded Kollel Keser Torah in [[Bnei Brak]], Israel.<ref name="history"/><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qTLNXZ7YpbAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=vanquish+dragon&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=kollel%20keser%20torah&f=false |title=To Vanquish the Dragon  |page=38 |last=Benisch |first=Pearl |publisher=[[Feldheim Publishers]] |year=1991 |isbn=0-87306-570-0}}</ref> In 1965 they asked Rabbi [[Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain]], son of the [[Sochatchov (Hasidic dynasty)|Sochatchover]] Rebbe and a nephew of Rabbi David Moshe Rabinowicz, to head the kollel. Bornsztain, who became known as the Sochatchover-Radomsker Rebbe, died in an automobile accident in 1969.<ref name="tragic">Growise, Yisroel Alter. ''"The Sochatchover Rebbe, Harav Menachem Shlomo Bornstein, zt"l, 40 Years Since His Tragic Passing"''. ''[[Hamodia]]'' Features section, 27 August 2009, pp. C4-5.</ref> After Bornsztain's death, his eldest son, Rabbi [[Shmuel Bornsztain (sixth Sochatchover rebbe)|Shmuel Bornsztain]], assumed the leadership of Kollel Keser Torah.<ref name="history"/>
+After World War II, Radomsker Hasidim and Keser Torah yeshiva students who had survived the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] founded Kollel Keser Torah in [[Bnei Brak]], Israel.<ref name="history"/><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qTLNXZ7YpbAC&q=kollel+keser+torah |title=To Vanquish the Dragon  |page=38 |last=Benisch |first=Pearl |publisher=[[Feldheim Publishers]] |year=1991 |isbn=0-87306-570-0}}</ref> In 1965 they asked [[Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain]], son of the [[Sochatchov (Hasidic dynasty)|Sochatchover]] rebbe and a nephew of [[David Moshe Rabinowicz]], to head the kollel. Bornsztain, who became known as the Sochatchover-Radomsker rebbe, died in an automobile accident in 1969.<ref name="tragic">Growise, Yisroel Alter. ''"The Sochatchover Rebbe, Harav Menachem Shlomo Bornstein, zt"l, 40 Years Since His Tragic Passing"''. ''[[Hamodia]]'' Features section, 27 August 2009, pp. C4-5.</ref> After Bornsztain's death, his eldest son, [[Shmuel Bornsztain (sixth Sochatchover rebbe)|Shmuel Bornsztain]], became head of Kollel Keser Torah.<ref name="history"/>
 ==Locations==
+* [[Bnei Brak]], Israel: Kollel Keser Torah opened in the 1940s.
-Today Keser Torah Radomsk institutions exist in these locations:
+* [[Jerusalem]], Israel: [[Yeshiva|Yeshiva Gedola]] Keser Torah Radomsk opened in the [[Bayit Vegan]] neighborhood in 1996. Like its namesake in pre-war Poland, the yeshiva includes a ''kibbutz govoha'' (high-level study group) for advanced students and ''avreichim'' (married students).<ref name="history"/>
-*[[Bnei Brak]], Israel: Kollel Keser Torah has been operating here since the 1940s.
-*[[Jerusalem]], Israel: [[Yeshiva|Yeshiva Gedola]] Keser Torah Radomsk opened in the [[Bayit Vegan]] neighborhood in 1996 with 75 students. Like its namesake in pre-war Poland, the yeshiva includes a ''kibbutz govoha'' (high-level study group) for advanced students and ''avreichim'' (married students).<ref name="history"/>
-*[[Lakewood Township, New Jersey|Lakewood, New Jersey]]: Kollel Keser Torah Radomsk, an evening kollel, opened in the Whispering Pines neighborhood of Lakewood in 2000 with approximately 30 students.<ref name="history"/>
+* [[Lakewood Township, New Jersey|Lakewood, New Jersey]]: Kollel Keser Torah Radomsk, an evening kollel, opened in 2000.<ref name="history"/>
-*[[Montreal]], Canada: Kollel Keser Torah Radomsk was established here in 1986. Its founding president was Rabbi [[Pinhas Hirschprung]], [[Chief Rabbi]] of Montreal. Deans of the kollel are Rabbi Osher Mintz and Rabbi Dovid Elias.<ref name="history"/>
+* [[Montreal]], Canada: Kollel Keser Torah Radomsk opened in 1986. Its founding president was [[Pinhas Hirschprung]], the [[Chief Rabbi]] of Montreal.<ref name="history"/>
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+[[Category:Pre–World War II European yeshivas]]
+[[Category:History of the Jews in the Second Polish Republic]]