"Being an Orthodox Jew is not a burden. It’s a privilege and it gives a person a meaningful and fulfilling life”
Listen carefully to Rav Yochanan Zweig’s parshah shiurim, year after year, on the intricacies and nuances of the Torah’s wording. You will never hear the same answers twice, even if his questions bear a ring of familiarity.
“I like to say that they’re all brand-new shiurim, even though they’re based on questions that I’ve worked on for years,” says Rav Zweig, rosh yeshivah at Miami Beach’s Talmudic University, the institution he established 45 years ago.
Even as he nears the age of “im b’gevuros,” Rav Zweig maintains the originality and creativity that serves as his drawing card for the 15 shiurim he still gives each week.
Just five years ago (“Early Riser,” Issue #538), we featured Rav Zweig on our cover to coincide with Talmudic University’s 40th anniversary, highlighting his four decades in building “the Yeshivah” — as it’s still called in Miami Beach — into an integrated chinuch system from preschool to kollel. That’s all in addition to the impact he has made in a city that has become home to one of the fastest growing and most stable baalei teshuvah communities in America.
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