Rabbi, lecturer and Talmud scholar

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

Rabbi Adler lectures widely in Israel and around the world. He has been a lecturer for the IDF and a commentator for Kol Yisrael radio.

Aaron Adler
Spiritual leader · Ohel Nechama, Katamon, Jerusalem
Founding Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Bnei Akiva Ner Tamid in Chashmona'im.

Learning

A student of Rabbi Soloveitchik

Rabbi Adler was a student of, and special assistant to, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, zt"l.

He took his BA and MA in Talmudic literature at Yeshiva University, with semicha from its RIETS, and a PhD in Talmud at Bar-Ilan University. His doctoral work was on the shifts in Maimonides' approach to his rabbinic sources: the hundreds of rulings that differ between the Commentary on the Mishnah and the Mishneh Torah.

In Israel

Aliyah in 1979

Rabbi Adler and his family made Aliyah in 1979. He served on the faculty of Bar-Ilan University and is a past president and campus rabbi at Emunah College for Arts and Technology in Jerusalem.

He is the founding Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Bnei Akiva Ner Tamid in Chashmona'im, and its president. As a community rabbi he has served congregations in Long Island City, New York, in Beersheva, in Ramot in Jerusalem, in Zurich, and now the Ohel Nechama Synagogue in Katamon, Jerusalem.

Teaching

Lectures and heritage tours

Rabbi Adler has lectured at Herzog College, the OU Israel Center and Kollel Sinai, and has joined the faculty of the Beit Midrash Harel, a semicha program.

He has also directed and led 31 heritage tours to Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.

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