Rabbi Gedaliah Finkel is a lecturer in Yeshivas Mir

Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)

The Mir yeshiva , known as the Mirrer Yeshiva or The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. With 6,000 students, it is the largest yeshiva in Israel. Many of the students are from the United States and Canada. It is also believed to be the largest yeshiva in the world...

 in Jerusalem, Israel

Israel

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Rabbi Finkel, the younger brother of Mirrer Rosh Yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva

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 Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel

Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Mir)

Nosson Tzvi Finkel was an American-born Haredi Litvish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. During his tenure from 1990 until his death in 2011, he built the Mir into the largest yeshiva in Israel with nearly 6,000 undergraduate students and over 1,600 avreichim...

, was born and raised in Chicago

Chicago

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 and as a youngster learned in Skokie yeshiva. There he developed a special relationship with Rabbi Yaakov Perlow

Yaakov Perlow

Rabbi Yaakov Perlow is a Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva living in Boro Park, Brooklyn. He is the current Novominsker Rebbe and serves as rosh of the American Agudath Israel of America, a Haredi communal organization...

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Rabbi Finkel delivers a daily English

English language

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 Talmud

Talmud

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ic lecture in a classroom above his older brother's house. In addition to Mir, Rabbi Finkel is also on the faculty of Yeshivas Heichal Aryeh http://www.heichalaryeh.org/staff.htm.

In addition to his duties as a lecturer, Rabbi Finkel is the author of "Imrei Gedaliah" ("אמרי גדליה") on various Tractates of the Talmud http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99+%D7%92%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%94%22. Additionally, Rabbi Finkel heads and maintains a Kollel

Kollel

A kollel is an institute for full-time, advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature. Like a yeshiva, a kollel features shiurim and learning sedarim ; unlike a yeshiva, the student body of a kollel are all married men...

 in the Ezrat Torah

Ezrat Torah

Ezrat Torah is a Haredi neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. It is bordered by Kiryat Sanz on the west, Golda Meir Blvd. on the north and east, and Tel Arza on the south.-History:...

 neighborhood of Jerusalem. He also maintains a Free Loan Fund, helping countless poor families in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Finkel is married to a daughter of Rabbi Naftoli Carlebach

Naftoli Carlebach

Naftoli Carlebach was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and accountant.-Early life:Carlebach was born in Leipzig, Germany to Rabbi Moshe Carlebach, a son of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the av beit din of Lübeck, Germany...

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