Rabbi Nota Schiller has been in the business of kiruv for the last 40 years, the founder of Ohr Somayach, and a charter member of the baal teshuvah yeshivah movement. While the times have changed, his method has not: give students the truth and everything else follows. ,The Simple Truth,Rabbi Nota Schiller has been in the business of kiruv for the last 40 years. While the times have changed, his method has not: give students the truth and everything else follows.
Harav Boruch Povarsky of Ponevez Yeshiva gives a shuir on the weekly Torah portion.
Rabbi Nota Schiller has been in the business of kiruv for the last 40 years, the founder of Ohr Somayach, and a charter member of the baal teshuvah yeshivah movement. While the times have changed, his method has not: give students the truth and everything else follows
The walk-up office on Flatbush’s Coney Island Avenue has been here forever, but the stores lining the avenue have evolved with the Brooklyn palate, from matzah balls to pizza to sushi to — at the time of this writing — skinny lattes. Upstairs, at the American office of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, the decor appears not to have changed much over the years. Everything is faded. The product, while vibrant, is fixed: the truth.
“The challenge has always been to serve up truth in a noncondescending and aesthetically provocative manner,” Rabbi Nota Schiller says, offering his mission statement with an unapologetic air, exuding the easy confidence born of experience and success.
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