Rabbi Binyomin Luban is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Chaim in North Miami Beach, Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

Life and Education

Rabbi Luban was born and raised in Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. His brother is Rabbi Yaakov Luban

Yaakov Luban

Rabbi Yaakov Luban is the rabbi of Congregation Ohr Torah in Edison, New Jersey, USA. He is also the Executive Rabbinic Coordinator at the Orthodox Union. He learned under Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz in the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. He also learned in Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia and in...

, the rabbinic coordinator of the Orthodox Union

Orthodox Union

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America , more popularly known as the Orthodox Union , is one of the oldest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States. It is best known for its kosher food preparation supervision service...

's Kashruth division. He attended the flagship high school of the Rabbinical Seminary of America (RSA) in Queens during the early 1970s. After completing high school he studied for a year at the Seminary's affiliate in the Sanhedria Murchevet section of Jerusalem, Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. While there he learned with Rabbi Avrohom Kenarek and Rabbi Shia Grodzitski, both students of the saintly Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz, the dean of the pre-World War Two rabbinical seminary which was known as Kaminetz. Rabbi Luban then returned to America where he studied for over 15 years at RSA under the tutelage of Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz

Henoch Leibowitz

Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz was an Orthodox rabbi who was rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen, which was founded by his father Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz in 1933.- Life :...

 one of the greatest sages of his generation. He received his rabbinic ordination in the early 1980s.

Career

In 1988 Rabbi Luban moved with his family to Jerusalem, Israel where he took a position as a teacher at Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim-Israel Branch. This was a particularly auspicious event for Rabbi Luban as he was now serving on the staff of his former school. He worked in conjunction with both Rabbi Kenarek and Rabbi Dovid Chait inspiring his students to grow to great heights in both Torah and Mussar.. While there he developed the concept of a Mussar Vaad- a novel approach to help students deal with life's challenges. In the fall of 2000 Rabbi Luban was offered a position as Rosh Yeshiva of RSA's affiliate in North Miami Beach. After asking and getting a blessing of success from his beloved Rebbe, Rabbi Leibowitz, he picked up his family and moved to Florida to assume the position. Under his auspices, the student body at the Bais Medrash level more than tripled. The Bais Medrash now continues to grow year by year.

Rabbi Luban began publishing his original Talmud ideas while a student at RSA. Since them, he has published works on at eight tractates of the Talmud

Talmud

The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism. It takes the form of a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, customs and history....

. Some have been published in several editions, as he is continuouly expanding and revising those works. He has also published Rabbi Leibowitz's sermons on the Pentateuch. The recently published volume on Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy

The Book of Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the Jewish Torah/Pentateuch...

 also contains a section with sermons on Lamentations

Book of Lamentations

The Book of Lamentations ) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah. It mourns the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in the 6th Century BCE....

 and the Tisha B'Av

Tisha B'Av

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(the Jewish day of mourning) prayer service.

Philosophy

In many areas Rabbi Luban transmits to his students precisely the ideas that he received from his Primary Rebbe Rabbi Leibowitz. Iyun the in-depth study of Talmud is one such concept that Rabbi Luban preaches to his students