Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
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Rabbi Chaim Heller
December 18th, 2007 · 14 Comments
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1 curios // Jul 7, 2009 at 4:35 pm
He was the editor of the famous “Reb Chaim Heler’s Sefer Hamitzvos l’haRambam”. The Chofetz Chaim said, that after his sefer hamitzvos the old one is a ספר שאינו מוגה.
2 Azi // Jul 7, 2009 at 6:45 pm
R’ Chaim Heller was born in Bialystock in 1878. While still in Eastern Europe he was a Rav in Lomza. He published Sefer Hamitzvot in 1914.
In 1917 he moved to Berlin and five years later opened a yeshiva where most of the students also attended the University if Berlin.
He left Berlin for New York in 1929. He moved to Israel and Chicago before ending up in New York for good.
A bio of R’ Heller can be found in “Chochmas Yisroel B’Maariv Europa” and there is a published hesped by R’ Yosef Dov Solovetchik.
3 Ben Bee Zee // Jul 8, 2009 at 11:44 am
there’s a beautiful biography on Rabbi Heller in Toldos Anshei Sheim available on hebrewbooks.org
4 Rabbi Stern // Jul 8, 2009 at 11:59 am
Baruch:
In addition your grandfather wrote a moving eulogy in the Hamaor (the first addition that came out after his passing.)
5 vivanssinger // Sep 21, 2009 at 8:06 am
i just read a few weeks ago that my grandfather reb chaim of blessed memory won the tel aviv prize in bible in 1949
6 MBD // Sep 21, 2009 at 11:09 am
What is the tel aviv prize in bible?
7 curios // Feb 1, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Was he related to the prestigious Heller family of the “Amudei Ohr” and his brothers?
8 bruce elliott // Apr 17, 2010 at 8:05 am
Two of his grandchildren reside in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, NY. Alexander T. Singer (Girard Street and Vivian Singer (Amherst Street) They are the children of the late Rabbi Dr. Joseph I. Singer (Rabbi Manhattan Beach Jewish Center for 50 years) and the late Rebecca Heller Singer
9 Amir Gorewitz // Jul 25, 2010 at 4:02 am
Do you know if he is related to the Hellers from Sighet, Romania?
Do you know about the Heller that had a kosher hamburger resturant in NYC?
Thank you
10 curios // Jul 26, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I think he was from Lithuania.
11 avrohom lieberman // Jul 18, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Can anyone confirm that Nachman Heller , wrote many books in hebrew and english, a rabbi in many American communities was his older brother?
12 curios // Jul 19, 2011 at 11:34 am
That’s what it says here: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%A8.
13 YD Miller // Jul 19, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Here you have it clear:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=3379&st=&pgnum=6
This is the Tehilim which Rev. Dr. Nachmen heller wrote in lyrics, where in the begining it tells a story that reads as follows:
“A couple of days ago, in a Shul in New York Rev. Dr, Nachmen Heller of Charlston, West Verginia spoke and delivered a Pilpul in English about Real estate in Talmud (?), Since Dr. Heller is a true Lamdun and the brother of the new rav of Lomza, Poland rabbi Chaim Heller he even stated the Pilpul with the traditional Gemure Nigun….
Prof. Getzel Zalikowits for Taggen-Blatt Sept. 8 1912″
14 YD Miller // Apr 25, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Here is the Sefer Daniel with a Pirush from Reb Nachmen Heller brother of Reb Chaim:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39779&st=&pgnum=1&hilite=
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