25 Facts About Aharon Feldman

Rabbi Aharon Feldman was born on 1932 and is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, Maryland.

Aharon Feldman is a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.

Rabbi Aharon Feldman is the son of Rabbi Joseph Feldman, a native of Warsaw and scion of a rabbinical family.

Rabbi Josef H Feldman served as a rabbi in Manchester, New Hampshire in the 1930s, but left that post to assume the helm of Baltimore's Franklin Street Synagogue so his sons could attend a Hebrew day school.

Aharon Feldman was the last rabbi to formally serve as chief rabbi of Baltimore.

Rabbi Aharon Feldman has two brothers; his elder brother, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, was the prominent spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta, Georgia for 40 years.

Aharon Feldman's younger brother, Rabbi Joel Feldman, was a former dean of Talmudical Academy of Baltimore.

Rabbi Feldman was born and raised in Baltimore, where he attended the Talmudical Academy and Ner Yisroel, becoming a close disciple of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzchak Ruderman.

Aharon Feldman went on to study under Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner and then Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin, who had "the most profound influence" in Feldman's Talmudic studies and introduced him to the Brisker method.

Aharon Feldman has dual citizenship to both Israel and America, and is in line for a position as MK in the Israeli parliament in the Degal HaTorah party.

Rabbi Aharon Feldman served as one of the Rosh Yeshivas of Ohr Somayach Yeshiva for many years, and founded Yeshiva Be'er HaTorah in Jerusalem in the early 1990s.

In 2001 Rabbi Aharon Feldman accepted the request of Ner Yisroel to serve as its Rosh Yeshiva.

Rabbi Aharon Feldman serves on the Moetzes Gedolai Hatorah of America.

Rabbi Aharon Feldman is a friend and was a chavrusa of the economist Israel Kirzner.

In 1994, Rabbi Aharon Feldman spoke publicly against the actions of Baruch Goldstein saying that there could be "no justification", and describing the actions as "way beyond the pale".

In 2003, in response to a question from Gil Student, Aharon Feldman issued a ruling regarding Chabad messianists.

Aharon Feldman drew a distinction between what he terms the "meshichists" and the "elokists".

Aharon Feldman ruled that it is forbidden to associate with elokists under any circumstances due to their heresy and that they cannot be counted for a minyan, stating that most Chabad adherents do not fall under that category.

Aharon Feldman has penned a lengthy critical review of the Steinsaltz Talmud.

Rav Aharon Feldman has written and spoken strongly against the ideology of Zionism.

In 2020, Rav Aharon Feldman gave the keynote address at the Annual Agudah Convention.

Aharon Feldman spoke about the fact that the Eretz Hakodesh slate joining the WZO violated what a century of Gedolei Torah warned Torah Jews not to do.

Aharon Feldman asserted that alleged support for the project from Rav Chaim was not true.

Aharon Feldman stated that all of the reasons the Gedolim had for not joining in with the Zionist organization still held today.

Aharon Feldman described the kefirah of Zionism as a dismantling of the Torah by making the land, language, and culture central to the Jewish People as opposed to only the Torah.