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HaRav Eliahu Mirav |
Rav
Chagai Veg |
A Letter from HaRav Eliezer Berland, shlit"a, Rosh
Yeshiva.
To all our friends and supporters
of the Yeshiva all over the world.
Since the establishment of the Shuvu Bonim Yeshiva,
over twenty branches of the Yeshiva have been founded. HaRav Eliahu
Mirav stands at the head of all the Yeshiva’s organizations, to develop,
increase, and strengthen them. These institutions are comprised of
kindergartens (2 years and up), six classes of Talmud Torah (ages 6-11),
a Yeshiva Katana (ages 12-17), and 6 Kollels for married men in 10 different
branches. These include a Kollel for learning b’iyun, in depth,
with the commentaries of the Rishonim and Achronim; a Kollel for learning
all of Shas, page by page, b’kius and b’iyun; and a Kollel
for smicha certification, learning Yoreh Deah in order to become
a qualified Rabbi (ages 17-50+).
HaRav Eliahu Mirav is the driving force behind all
these institutions, dedicated to promoting and advancing them. He
and his financial director HaRav Chagai Vegg work day and night in
order to put forth the massive effort required for the development of the
Yeshiva’s institutions: acquiring land, building buildings, and providing
salaries for hundreds of workers: managers, rabbis, teachers, and others.
Their responsibility is to direct hundreds, and
quickly turning into thousands, of projects regarding the management of
the Shuvu Bonim Yeshiva and its rapidly developing institutions. The whole
purpose of the Yeshiva and its institutions is to increase Torah and to
strengthen the influence of Torah in the world, l’shem shamaim,
and to produce upright and loyal descendants, adhering to the path of our
holy ancestors.
And as Rabbenu, the holy and awesome Rabbi Nachman
ben Simcha ben Faige of Breslov said, "I am taking you on an old path,
which is, in fact, a completely new path," for in order to maintain the
path of Torah and yirah--fear of heaven--in the tradition of our
ancestors, an infinite number of new strategies and original ideas are
constantly needed. According Rabbi Nachman, these new strategies and ideas
are continuously rising up from the sefirah--the Divine emanation--of
binah,
which is the aspect of Divine Understanding, which Rabbi Nachman achieved,
and which enabled him to reach a level of being able to understand "one
thing from another." This is how the hidden light of the upper worlds
is brought down to the "the heel," [the generations on the lowest spiritual
levels] which is the secret of the revealing of Eliahu the Prophet. This
is hinted at in the verse (Bereishis 49:19), "Gad will provide a
regiment, and it will return upon it’s heel," [i.e. it will return on the
same paths by which it traveled out--Rashi.] Gad merited to this
through Eliahu the Prophet, who was his descendant, who drew down the light
to "the heel" [the generations which are known as the "heel of Moshiach,"
which directly precede the coming of the Redeemer.] This is the secret
of the Redemption, as it is said, "And on that day, the feet of Moshiach
will stand on the Mount of Olives."
[HaRav Eliahu Mirav is now residing in New York and can be reached via
the following telephone number: 718-438 2395.]
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Breslov Institutions, Yeshivat "Shuvu Bonim",
All Rights Reserved.
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