21 Facts About Moshe Weinberger

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger was born on June 1,1957 and is an American Chasidic rabbi, educator, author, translator, and speaker.

Moshe Weinberger has recorded more than 5000 lectures on chasidic thought and philosophy as well as Halakha and a variety of other topics in Judaism.

Rabbi Weinberger grew up in a Modern Orthodox home in Queens, New York.

Moshe Weinberger began studying Chasidic works after his Bar Mitzvah.

Moshe Weinberger studied for some time at Yeshivas Sh'or Yoshuv.

Moshe Weinberger earned master's degrees in Jewish philosophy from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, and in educational administration from Columbia University Teachers College.

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger began his career in the rabbinate as a rabbi at a yeshiva in Far Rockaway.

Moshe Weinberger taught for two decades as a rabbi at Ezra Academy, a Jewish day school in Queens, New York and served as a mashgiach ruchani for N'vei Tzion of Queens.

In December 1992, Rabbi Moshe Weinberger became the first rabbi of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, New York.

Moshe Weinberger named the synagogue after Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Piaseczna Rav.

In 2013 Rabbi Moshe Weinberger was appointed mashgiach ruchani at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he presented weekly classes in Chasidic thought and philosophy, conducted a monthly farbrengen, and used to spend Shabbos on campus several times a year.

Moshe Weinberger strongly encourages the learning of penimius hatorah and chassidus for people of all ages, and believes that it is an extremely important component of one developing his relationship with God.

Moshe Weinberger encourages the path of hisbodedus in which a person speaks to God in their own words with strong feelings outside of the context of the three time daily traditional Jewish prayer services.

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger has been noted as "one of this generation's leading teachers of Chassidus".

Moshe Weinberger's teachings derive from a wide range of sources across the hashkafic board of Judaism, including the Baal Shem Tov, Ramchal, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Chabad, and Izbica, Peshischa as well as from the Vilna Gaon, Rav Tzadok HaKohen, and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchok HaKohen Kook, among others.

Moshe Weinberger teaches works that were previously unavailable to the English-speaking public, such as the works of the Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh, and others To date, he has recorded over 5,000 lectures on Chasidic thought and philosophy.

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger has been involved in some controversies over his years of service as a Rabbinical leader, at times disagreeing with some Rabbanim in the litvish and sephardic Jewish orthodox community who disagree with his hashkafic views on certain matters.

Moshe Weinberger stressed that in the Holocaust there was no differentiation between Jews who openly identified as Jews and those who completely rejected it - they were all killed indiscriminately by the hands of the Nazis.

Moshe Weinberger was a frequent contributor to Jewish Action, published by the Orthodox Union, and the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society, published by the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School.

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger is married to Rebbetzin Michla Moshe Weinberger, daughter of Shirley Schall and Cantor Noach Schall, a noted teacher and composer of Jewish chazzanus.

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger wears a full Chasidic levush, including a rekkel and bieber hat during the week as well as a bekeshe and shtreimel on Shabbos and Yom Tov.