Noah Weinberg
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Rabbi Yisrael Noach Weinberg (February 16, 1930 – February 5, 2009) was an Orthodox
Jewish rabbi
, rosh yeshiva
, and a father of today's baal teshuva
movement with his establishment of a global network of educational and kiruv
(outreach) programs for unaffiliated Jewish men and women. Primarily through the multifaceted activities of Jerusalem-based Yeshivat Aish HaTorah
, Rabbi Weinberg influenced tens of thousands of college-aged youth to learn more about their Jewish heritage and embrace lives of Torah
and mitzvah
observance. He also reached out to business executives, professionals and Hollywood
celebrities with private and group learning opportunities. Many of the programs which he and his staff developed became successful spin-offs in their own right, such as the Discovery Seminar, Jerusalem Fellowships, HonestReporting
, and the highly-trafficked Jewish educational website
, Aish.com.
His upbeat, charismatic personality and message of gaining happiness through acquiring Torah
wisdom and experiencing the pleasure of a relationship with God were well-known to listeners of his widely-circulated tape series, especially "The 48 Ways to Wisdom". He also co-authored the book, What the Angel Taught You: Seven Keys to Life Fulfillment, published by ArtScroll
in 2003 and authored the book, The 5 Levels of Pleasure: Enlightened Decision Making for Success in Life, published by SelectBooks in 2008.
on the Lower East Side
in 1930. His father, Rabbi Yitzchak Mattisyahu Weinberg was a Slonimer chassid, and a nephew and grandson of the first Slonimer
Rebbe
, Rabbi Avrohom Weinberg.
His mother, Hinda, was a direct descendant of Rabbi Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa
, author of Nesivos Hamishpat.
Rabbi Weinberg studied at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
of Brooklyn
and Yeshivas Ner Yisroel of Baltimore
; he received rabbinic ordination
from the latter. He completed his undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University
and post-graduate studies at Loyola Graduate School.
His older brother, Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg
, later became rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel.
In 1953, Rabbi Weinberg traveled by boat to Israel to discuss with Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (known as the Chazon Ish), the leading rabbinical sage at the time, how to respond to the threat of assimilation in the Jewish world. Rabbi Karelitz died while Weinberg was en route to Israel.
He then became a traveling salesman for his brother's company. In his course of travel to many small cities in the United States, he discovered Jews of all kinds who were distant from their heritage.
He married Denah Goldman
, daughter of Rabbi Elchanan Goldman, also a native of New York, in February 1958. Together they established a home in the Mea Shearim
neighborhood of Jerusalem. Shortly before the Six-Day War
in 1967, they and their young children moved into a new apartment in the Kiryat Sanz neighborhood of Jerusalem, where they raised their 12 children.
youth, Weinberg decided to enter the field of kiruv (Jewish outreach). He opened his first yeshiva for assimilated young men in Jerusalem in 1966. That school was short-lived, as were several other attempts before he co-founded Yeshivas Shma Yisrael (later renamed Ohr Somayach
) with Rabbis Nota Schiller
, Mendel Weinbach
and Yaakov Rosenberg in 1970. After a few years, however, he broke away from the partnership over a difference in educational philosophy. While Weinberg himself was a product of top yeshivas, he believed that the times called for "kiruv soldiers" to be given a few years of basic education and then sent out to give introductory classes to other young people at risk of assimilation and intermarriage. To that end, he established Aish HaTorah
with 5 students in a small apartment in Jerusalem's Old City in 1974.
Aish HaTorah became a symbol of the blossoming baal teshuva movement. In addition to its Jerusalem headquarters, Weinberg spearheaded the establishment of an Aish HaTorah branch in St. Louis, Missouri
in 1979. The first outreach center of its kind in North America, this became a prototype for the outreach programs in every major Jewish community today. Over the course of 35 years, Weinberg built a network of over 25 branches on five continents.
In 1985, Weinberg launched the Discovery Seminar, a multi-day seminar designed to introduce proofs of God
's existence to audiences all over the world. Based on the Arachim model, Discovery is seen by nearly 10,000 people each year.
In 1985, Weinberg launched the Jerusalem Fellowships, a 3-week tour-and-study program that has brought 10,000 college-aged students to Israel.
Aish HaTorah's umbrella of educational programs also include:
The aish.com website, which receives over 2 million hits per month, includes articles and audio segments on spirituality, parenting, dating, weekly Torah portion, Holocaust studies
, and "Ask the Rabbi" questions and answers. This website also operates a 24-hour live webcam from the Western Wall
. Spin-off sites in Hebrew
, Spanish
, Portuguese
, French
and Russian
are also up and operating.
In 2001, as Israel was losing an important public relations battle on college campuses, Weinberg founded the Hasbara Fellowships to bring university students to Israel for 2 weeks of Israel Activism training.
In 2006, Weinberg took a group of Aish HaTorah rabbis to Poland to visit the concentration camps. Rabbi Weinberg believed that the threat of spiritual assimilation was no less a threat than the physical holocaust of decades ago. While standing in front of the crematoria at Auschwitz, he declared that just as the Nazis were motivated to destroy the Jewish people, we have to be motivated to build the Jewish people.
For many years, Weinberg promoted the idea of harnessing members of the Jewish community with a significant Jewish background to reach out and share with fellow Jews. In the past few years this idea has caught on, giving rise to Project Inspire and bringing this issue to forefront of communal discussion and efforts.
In his final months, Weinberg was devoted to the development of the Aish HaTorah at the Western Wall Building, housing Aish HaTorah's extensive outreach programs, which is scheduled to open in June 2009. A second phase, with a hi-tech Explorium and the Kirk Douglas theater, is slated to open in 2011.
In 2005, Weinberg was honored with the "Treasured of Jerusalem" Award by the mayor of Jerusalem.
and radiation treatments. Late in 2008, he broke his thigh bone and shoulder, compounding his condition. He died of cancer on the morning of February 5, 2009 (11 Shevat
5769). In accordance with a halakhic
ruling by Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, Rav of the Old City, his casket was not allowed to be brought into the Old City for eulogies at his yeshiva, Aish HaTorah. Rather, the funeral began at a synagogue
near his home in Kiryat Sanz, and proceeded to interment on Har HaMenuchot
.
Weinberg left behind his wife of over 50 years, Denah, 12 children, and more than 100 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was succeeded as rosh yeshiva of Aish HaTorah by his son, Rabbi Yosef Hillel Weinberg
.
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...
Jewish rabbi
Rabbi
In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...
, rosh yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the dean of a Talmudical academy . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh — meaning head, and yeshiva — a school of religious Jewish education...
, and a father of today's baal teshuva
Baal teshuva
Baal teshuva or ba'al teshuvah , sometimes abbreviated to BT, is a term referring to a Jew who turns to embrace Orthodox Judaism. Baal teshuva literally means, "repentant", i.e., one who has repented or "returned" to God...
movement with his establishment of a global network of educational and kiruv
Orthodox Judaism outreach
Orthodox Jewish outreach commonly referred to as Kiruv or Keruv , is the collective work or movement of Orthodox Judaism that reaches out to non-Orthodox Jews to believe in God, engage in Torah study, and practice the Mitzvot in the hope that they will live according to Orthodox Jewish law...
(outreach) programs for unaffiliated Jewish men and women. Primarily through the multifaceted activities of Jerusalem-based Yeshivat Aish HaTorah
Aish HaTorah
Aish HaTorah is a Jewish Orthodox organization and yeshiva. Aish HaTorah is actively pro-Israel and encourages Jewish people to visit Israel and connect to the land and its history. Some consider the organisation to reflect a more Religious Zionist philosophy in its attachment to Israel, promoting...
, Rabbi Weinberg influenced tens of thousands of college-aged youth to learn more about their Jewish heritage and embrace lives of Torah
Torah
Torah- A scroll containing the first five books of the BibleThe Torah , is name given by Jews to the first five books of the bible—Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and Deuteronomy Torah- A scroll containing the first five books of the BibleThe Torah , is name given by Jews to the first five...
and mitzvah
Mitzvah
The primary meaning of the Hebrew word refers to precepts and commandments as commanded by God...
observance. He also reached out to business executives, professionals and Hollywood
Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...
celebrities with private and group learning opportunities. Many of the programs which he and his staff developed became successful spin-offs in their own right, such as the Discovery Seminar, Jerusalem Fellowships, HonestReporting
HonestReporting
HonestReporting is a non-governmental organization that monitors the media for what it perceives as bias against Israel. The organization has affiliates in the United States, UK, Canada, Italy, and Brazil...
, and the highly-trafficked Jewish educational website
Website
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, Aish.com.
His upbeat, charismatic personality and message of gaining happiness through acquiring Torah
Torah
Torah- A scroll containing the first five books of the BibleThe Torah , is name given by Jews to the first five books of the bible—Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and Deuteronomy Torah- A scroll containing the first five books of the BibleThe Torah , is name given by Jews to the first five...
wisdom and experiencing the pleasure of a relationship with God were well-known to listeners of his widely-circulated tape series, especially "The 48 Ways to Wisdom". He also co-authored the book, What the Angel Taught You: Seven Keys to Life Fulfillment, published by ArtScroll
ArtScroll
ArtScroll is an imprint of translations, books and commentaries from an Orthodox Jewish perspective published by Mesorah Publications, Ltd., a publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York...
in 2003 and authored the book, The 5 Levels of Pleasure: Enlightened Decision Making for Success in Life, published by SelectBooks in 2008.
Biography
Rabbi Noah Weinberg was born in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
on the Lower East Side
Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly bounded by Allen Street, East Houston Street, Essex Street, Canal Street, Eldridge Street, East Broadway, and Grand Street....
in 1930. His father, Rabbi Yitzchak Mattisyahu Weinberg was a Slonimer chassid, and a nephew and grandson of the first Slonimer
Slonim (Hasidic dynasty)
Slonim is a Hasidic dynasty originating in the town of Slonim, which is now in Belarus.Today, there are two Slonimer Rebbes, both in Israel: one resides in Jerusalem and the other in Bnei Brak...
Rebbe
Rebbe
Rebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi. It often refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...
, Rabbi Avrohom Weinberg.
His mother, Hinda, was a direct descendant of Rabbi Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa
Yaakov Lorberbaum
Yaakov ben Moshe Lorberbaum of Lissa was a Rabbi and Posek...
, author of Nesivos Hamishpat.
Rabbi Weinberg studied at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin or Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, is a Haredi Lithuanian-type yeshiva located in Brooklyn, New York. Established in 1904 as Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim, it is the oldest yeshiva in Kings County...
of Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
and Yeshivas Ner Yisroel of Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
; he received rabbinic ordination
Semicha
, also , or is derived from a Hebrew word which means to "rely on" or "to be authorized". It generally refers to the ordination of a rabbi within Judaism. In this sense it is the "transmission" of rabbinic authority to give advice or judgment in Jewish law...
from the latter. He completed his undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
and post-graduate studies at Loyola Graduate School.
His older brother, Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg
Yaakov Weinberg
Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, known as Yaakov Weinberg was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and rosh yeshiva of Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, Maryland one of the major American non-Hasidic yeshivas...
, later became rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel.
In 1953, Rabbi Weinberg traveled by boat to Israel to discuss with Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (known as the Chazon Ish), the leading rabbinical sage at the time, how to respond to the threat of assimilation in the Jewish world. Rabbi Karelitz died while Weinberg was en route to Israel.
He then became a traveling salesman for his brother's company. In his course of travel to many small cities in the United States, he discovered Jews of all kinds who were distant from their heritage.
He married Denah Goldman
Denah Weinberg
Denah Weinberg is an Orthodox Jewish Rebbetzin and founder and dean of EYAHT College of Jewish Studies for Women in Jerusalem. EYAHT has over 2,000 alumnae...
, daughter of Rabbi Elchanan Goldman, also a native of New York, in February 1958. Together they established a home in the Mea Shearim
Mea Shearim
Mea Shearim is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Israel. It is populated mainly by Haredi Jews and was built by the original settlers of the Yishuv haYashan.-Name:...
neighborhood of Jerusalem. Shortly before the Six-Day War
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War , also known as the June War, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt , Jordan, and Syria...
in 1967, they and their young children moved into a new apartment in the Kiryat Sanz neighborhood of Jerusalem, where they raised their 12 children.
Kiruv pioneer
Observing the high rate of assimilation and lack of Jewish knowledge among WesternWestern world
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident , is a term referring to the countries of Western Europe , the countries of the Americas, as well all countries of Northern and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand...
youth, Weinberg decided to enter the field of kiruv (Jewish outreach). He opened his first yeshiva for assimilated young men in Jerusalem in 1966. That school was short-lived, as were several other attempts before he co-founded Yeshivas Shma Yisrael (later renamed Ohr Somayach
Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem
Ohr Somayach was founded in 1970. It is a yeshiva based in Jerusalem, Israel, catering mostly to young Jewish men, usually of college age, who are already interested in learning about Judaism...
) with Rabbis Nota Schiller
Nota Schiller
Nota Schiller is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem, together with Rabbi Mendel Weinbach. He is an influential figure in the baal teshuva movement, having guided generations of students with little or no Jewish background to master the classical...
, Mendel Weinbach
Mendel Weinbach
Mendel Weinbach is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and one of the fathers of the modern-day baal teshuva movement in his capacity as co-founder and dean of Ohr Somayach Institutions, a Jerusalem-based educational network for young, non-Hasidic Jewish men...
and Yaakov Rosenberg in 1970. After a few years, however, he broke away from the partnership over a difference in educational philosophy. While Weinberg himself was a product of top yeshivas, he believed that the times called for "kiruv soldiers" to be given a few years of basic education and then sent out to give introductory classes to other young people at risk of assimilation and intermarriage. To that end, he established Aish HaTorah
Aish HaTorah
Aish HaTorah is a Jewish Orthodox organization and yeshiva. Aish HaTorah is actively pro-Israel and encourages Jewish people to visit Israel and connect to the land and its history. Some consider the organisation to reflect a more Religious Zionist philosophy in its attachment to Israel, promoting...
with 5 students in a small apartment in Jerusalem's Old City in 1974.
Aish HaTorah became a symbol of the blossoming baal teshuva movement. In addition to its Jerusalem headquarters, Weinberg spearheaded the establishment of an Aish HaTorah branch in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
in 1979. The first outreach center of its kind in North America, this became a prototype for the outreach programs in every major Jewish community today. Over the course of 35 years, Weinberg built a network of over 25 branches on five continents.
In 1985, Weinberg launched the Discovery Seminar, a multi-day seminar designed to introduce proofs of God
God
God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
's existence to audiences all over the world. Based on the Arachim model, Discovery is seen by nearly 10,000 people each year.
In 1985, Weinberg launched the Jerusalem Fellowships, a 3-week tour-and-study program that has brought 10,000 college-aged students to Israel.
Aish HaTorah's umbrella of educational programs also include:
- Essentials, an introductory learning program for men ages 18–29
- Executive Kollel, which develops TalmudTalmudThe 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....
ic learning skills in men over age 30 - Executive Learning Center, a short-term, customized learning program for men and women
- B'nei Aish, a 4-week summer program for ninth through twelfth graders
- Jewel, a 3½-week introductory program for young women
- Gem, a 10-day program of learning and touring for women over age 30
- Intermediate and Advanced Yeshiva
- Rabbinic Ordination/Leadership Program
- Hesder Yeshiva
- EYAHTEYAHTEYAHT , is a full-time college for advanced Jewish learning for women in Jerusalem, Israel.Geared to unaffiliated, college-educated and professional women aged 22-30 from English-speaking countries, EYAHT introduces women to the basics of Torah Judaism and encourages them to integrate Torah values...
College of Jewish Studies for Women, led by Rebbetzin Denah Weinberg
The aish.com website, which receives over 2 million hits per month, includes articles and audio segments on spirituality, parenting, dating, weekly Torah portion, Holocaust studies
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
, and "Ask the Rabbi" questions and answers. This website also operates a 24-hour live webcam from the Western Wall
Western Wall
The Western Wall, Wailing Wall or Kotel is located in the Old City of Jerusalem at the foot of the western side of the Temple Mount...
. Spin-off sites in Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
are also up and operating.
Other activities
Weinberg believed in the idea of Israel activism. He took a lead role in the founding and growth of Honest Reporting, today the largest organization in the world countering media bias against Israel.In 2001, as Israel was losing an important public relations battle on college campuses, Weinberg founded the Hasbara Fellowships to bring university students to Israel for 2 weeks of Israel Activism training.
In 2006, Weinberg took a group of Aish HaTorah rabbis to Poland to visit the concentration camps. Rabbi Weinberg believed that the threat of spiritual assimilation was no less a threat than the physical holocaust of decades ago. While standing in front of the crematoria at Auschwitz, he declared that just as the Nazis were motivated to destroy the Jewish people, we have to be motivated to build the Jewish people.
For many years, Weinberg promoted the idea of harnessing members of the Jewish community with a significant Jewish background to reach out and share with fellow Jews. In the past few years this idea has caught on, giving rise to Project Inspire and bringing this issue to forefront of communal discussion and efforts.
Government recognition
In recognition of Aish HaTorah's accomplishments, the Israeli government awarded Weinberg the last two building sites — 40% of the frontage — directly facing the Western Wall. In 1996, Weinberg dedicated his newly-designed yeshiva, housing Aish HaTorah's manpower and leadership training programs.In his final months, Weinberg was devoted to the development of the Aish HaTorah at the Western Wall Building, housing Aish HaTorah's extensive outreach programs, which is scheduled to open in June 2009. A second phase, with a hi-tech Explorium and the Kirk Douglas theater, is slated to open in 2011.
In 2005, Weinberg was honored with the "Treasured of Jerusalem" Award by the mayor of Jerusalem.
Final years
He was diagnosed with lung cancer in late 2007, for which he underwent chemotherapyChemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....
and radiation treatments. Late in 2008, he broke his thigh bone and shoulder, compounding his condition. He died of cancer on the morning of February 5, 2009 (11 Shevat
Shevat
Shevat is the fifth month of the civil year and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a winter month of 30 days...
5769). In accordance with a halakhic
Halakha
Halakha — also transliterated Halocho , or Halacha — is the collective body of Jewish law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions.Judaism classically draws no distinction in its laws between religious and ostensibly non-religious life; Jewish...
ruling by Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, Rav of the Old City, his casket was not allowed to be brought into the Old City for eulogies at his yeshiva, Aish HaTorah. Rather, the funeral began at a synagogue
Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
near his home in Kiryat Sanz, and proceeded to interment on Har HaMenuchot
Har HaMenuchot
Har HaMenuchot is the largest cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel. It is located at the western edge of the city adjacent to the neighborhood of Givat Shaul, with commanding views of Mevaseret Zion to the north, Motza to the west, and Har Nof to the south.-History:...
.
Weinberg left behind his wife of over 50 years, Denah, 12 children, and more than 100 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was succeeded as rosh yeshiva of Aish HaTorah by his son, Rabbi Yosef Hillel Weinberg
Hillel Weinberg
Hillel Weinberg is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Aish HaTorah.After the passing of his father, Rabbi Noah Weinberg, in February 2009, Rabbi Hillel Weinberg became dean of the Aish HaTorah yeshiva in Jerusalem.-Biography:...
.
Works
Weinberg created new curriculums to teach the fundamentals of Jewish belief and practice to Jews ignorant of their heritage. These include:- "The 48 Ways to Wisdom"
- "The 6 Constant Mitzvot"
- "Foundations"
- "The 5 Levels of Pleasure"
Books
- What the Angel Taught You: Seven Keys to Life Fulfillment (Artscroll, ISBN 978-1578191345) (co-authored with Rabbi Yaakov Salomon)
- The 5 Levels of Pleasure: Enlightened Decision Making for Success in Life (SelectBooks, ISBN 1-59079-109-6)