The Experiences of Slabodka Yeshiva Graduates. R' Avigdor Miller. R' Yaakov Moshe Hacohen Lessin.

The Experiences of Slabodka Yeshiva Graduates. R' Avigdor Miller. R' Yaakov Moshe Hacohen Lessin. - May 4, 2026 - R' Dovid Lifshitz & the golf cart. Kollel learning = MA degree at YU. Reb Areleh Rokeach laining. Yitz Greenberg. Importance of women. Visiting Russia in 1980. R' Mordechai Pogramansky & grape juice for Kiddush. Why R' Avigdor Miller (RAM), Mashgiach Ruchani, left Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Effect on young men of European Rabbis' fundraising trips to NY. Post-WWI. Arrival of R' Yitzchak Isaac Sher in NY. His shmues. RAM goes to Slabodka Yeshiva (SY). Mussar instead of Kabbalat Shabbat. YU today compared to the 1950s. R' Lessin on Tzelem Elokim. RAM on mussar. Closeness of NY yeshivot to each other in 1950s. RAM & Golda Meir (GM). GM in Moscow. RAM describes Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur in SY. Ta'anit dibbur. Will Durant on Jews. Krakow. Characteristics of Jewish girls in NY in 1920s-30s. R' Yitzchok Schmidman & R' Rakeffet's mother-in-law. 19 Letters by R' Hirsch. Special Yom Kippur minyan with R' Yaakov Moshe HaKohen Lessin (RL). R' Shmuel Elozor Volk's public criticism. RL's grandson. Derech Chaim, a book by RL. The loss of RL's family. Drush vs. Mussar. Mussar kloiz. RL on interpersonal relations. Malkah on going to USSR. The history of the R' Soloveitchik tapes.