!ואהבת לרעך כמוך - זה כלל גדול בתורה

Program Details

From the center of the world and the city that unifies all Jews, Yeshivat Hakotel is proud to present a third Unprecedented Worldwide Achdus Program.

On Sunday 5 Av (July 26) we invite you to properly prepare for Tisha B’Av - the day when we mourn the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash because of Sinas Chinam - by strengthening your connection with and Ahavas Chinam of Klal Yisrael.

On Rosh Chodesh Sivan, for the first time in 2000 years, eight Chief Rabbis and leading Roshei Yeshiva, Rabbonim, and Mechanchim from around the globe and of different hashkafot joined forces to present Torah to the whole world at once- ki’ish echad b’lev echad. On Erev Shavuos Roshei Yeshiva and Ramim from almost 50 yeshivas taught Torah together in a Pre Shavuos all night mishmar. Baruch Hashem the Pre Shavuos program had over 125,000 ‘attendees’ and jump-started a worldwide achdus movement. We look forward to continuing this momentum and showing Hashem the Ahavas Chinam that makes us worthy of geula.

The Israeli Chief Rabbis and Senior Roshei Yeshiva will iy”H open the program at 10:00 AM US East Coast Time. Afterwards, the speakers will iy”H speak in parallel online rooms beginning every 30 minutes on the hour/half hour from 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM. The program will iy”H also include tours of sites connected to the Bais Hamikdash and interviews with parent and child chinuch pairs (in the spirit of V’heishiv Laiv Avos Al Banim…)

Viewing the Shiurim

The shiurim will iy”H be screened on Youtube, on the program site and on TorahAnytime. For your convenience the pdf versions of the schedule fliers (that will iy”H be posted closer to the event) consist of click boxes. Clicking the box will take you to the youtube shiur link (which will iy”H activate at the time the shiur begins). (You are able to log in before it actually starts.)

Thank You

Thank you to the speakers- the Chief Rabbis, the Roshei Yeshiva, the Rabbonim, the Mechanchim, the Mental Health Professionals, and the Tour Guides who identified with this achdut vision and translated this identification into action by making the time to speak/ despite busy schedules.

All the speakers are speaking pro bono.

A special thank you to Dovid Lichtenstein and his team for interviewing the parent-children pairs.

Thank you to Shlomie Dachs, Rav Avraham Fried, Eitan Freilich, Rav Benny Friedman, Shlomie Gertner, Abie Rotenberg, Nachum Segal, and others for their pre event videos.

Thank you to Rabbi Jonathan Caller, Rabbi Daniel Fine, Rabbi Michoel Green, Rabbi Ariel Shoshan, Rabbi Gidon Shoshan, Rabbi Gil Student, and Rav Hanoch Teller for helping develop the program.

Thank you to the over one hundred representatives from communities around the world who have advised and helped advertise the program.

Thank you to Binyamin Klein for building and maintaining the website and to Leah Rubin for creating the program fliers.

Thank you to Hadassa Bennett for being our Director of Media.

Thank you to the national partners around the world including the Orthodox Union, Aleinu, and the Office of the South African Chief Rabbi. Thank you to the over one hundred fifty partner shuls, schools, yeshivas, and other organizations whose names appear on the site. If your organization would like to partner (which means receiving a flier with your logo and being listed on the website [all free of charge]), please fill out this form.

Thank you to our screening partners- TorahAnytime, Yeshiva World and others.

Thank you to Jordan Lustman for coordinating the speaker representatives.

Thank you to Elisheva Adouth and Hannah Karben for producing the weekly Shabbat Chovrot.

Thank you to Avery Amster, Yosef Besso Cowan, Jonathan Kazlow, Zev Lafer, Sammy Raskas, and Jonathan Wenger for coordinating the uploading and editing of the videos.

Thank you to Sam Rothstein for coordinating the shiur summaries.

Thank you to Morday Fried for coordinating the Social Media effort.

Thank you to Shane Safran, Jonathan Wenger, Jonathan Kazlow, Binyamin Klein, Elisheva Adouth, Ometz Schmidman, Yoni Panitch, Elisheva Raskas, Aliza Mandelbaum, Zac Winkler, Noah Diamond, Shoshana Weintraub, Joshua Trauring, and Sammy Raskas for editing, uploading and working on the videos.

A special thank you to Shane Safran for working so hard on the promo videos.

Thank you to the many volunteers who coordinated with the speakers including Elisheva Adouth, Gila Allen, Akiva Aryeh, Eytan Aryeh, Rav Ben Baruch, Yona Berzon, Tzvi Bessler, Yosef Besso-Cowan, Saul Bishop, Gavi Book, Eitan Drapkin, Meira Edelstein, Eitan Edinger, Akiva Erlbaum, Sophie Frankenthal, Yoni Kram, Yoni Laub, Adina Lev, Ariel Lewis, Zev Lowy, Jordan Lustman, Yakov Martins Moreira, Yonadav Rimberg, Daniel Ross, Gidon Schwartz, Talia Tarzik, Jonah Tripp, Phillip Vedol, Talia Wein, and Jed Zaslow, and Michal Zelmanovitz.

Dedication

The event is sponsored by David and Debra Segal and Shlomo and Adrianne Drazin, the children of Rabbi Meyer Shapiro and Rebbetzin Pearl Shapiro. This past Shiva Asar B’Tammuz was the 22nd Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shapiro and this week will be the Shloshim of Rebbitzin Pearl. Rabbi Meyer and Rebbitzin Pearl Shapiro devoted their lives to Yiddishkeit and the Jewish people. They were both direct descendants of the Ba’al Shem Tov. She was part of the Nadvorna Rabbinic dynasty. He was a student of the Chevron Yeshiva of Jerushalayim and a descendant of Pinchos M-Koretz and the Megale Amukos.After they were married they served the Jewish communities of South America, with Rabbi Shapiro serving as a rabbi in Lima, Peru, Caracas, Venezuela, where he was chief rabbi, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were a prime force in developing Yiddishkeit in each of those communities.

For questions or inquiries, please email [email protected].

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