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Osher (Usher, Asher) Weiss is the current Rosh Kollel of Machon Minchas Osher L’Torah V’Horaah. He grew up in a
KlausenbergThis article below discusses the Sanz-Klausenburger dynasty that began with Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam and presently the two movements in Israel and America...
er family.
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Dayan (Rabbi)
Osher (Usher, Asher) Weiss is the current Rosh Kollel of Machon Minchas Osher L’Torah V’Horaah. He grew up in a
KlausenbergThis article below discusses the Sanz-Klausenburger dynasty that began with Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam and presently the two movements in Israel and America...
er family.
He is the author of the
Minchas Osher, an Av Beis Din, Rosh
KollelA kollel is an institute for advanced studies of the Talmud and of rabbinic literature for Jewish men, essentially a post-graduate yeshiva which pays married men a regular monthly stipend or annual salary to study Judaism's classic texts in depth.-Original sense:Originally, the word was...
,
posekPosek is the term in Jewish law for "decider"—a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
, and is well known in
HarediHaredi or Charedi/Chareidi Judaism, sometimes referred to as Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, though the term is considered pejorative by some, is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism...
circles for having traveled to the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
with Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman and Rabbi
Yaakov Aryeh AlterYaakov Aryeh Alter, , is the seventh and current Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he has held since 1996. He lives in Israel and has followers in Europe and the United States...
, the
GerrerGer, or Gur is a Hasidic dynasty originating from Ger, the Yiddish name of Góra Kalwaria, a small town in Poland....
RebbeRebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew word Rabbi. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...
. He frequently gives classes at American yeshivos in Israel.