The Builders - Mishpacha

Spirit and Struggle

In this episode, Gedalia and Rav Ephraim look to the Gedolei Yisrael of the 20th century for chizzuk in times of crisis and tzara. They discuss chassidishe men being draf

The Builders: The Chazon Ish Part 2 - Creating the Chareidi World

In part two of this episode, Gedalia and Rav Ephraim speak further about the Chazon Ish, and what he accomplished for the Chareidi world in the last two decades of his li

The Builders: The Chazon Ish Part 1 - The Quiet Lion of Vilna

In part one of this two-part episode, Gedalia and Rav Ephraim talk about the Chazon Ish, Rav Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, and try to define the vast influence of the Chazon

The Builders: Rav Ovadiah Yosef Part 2 - “Maran”: The rise of a Halachic Revolutionary

In Part Two of this episode about Rav Ovadiah Yosef, Gedalia and Rabbi Galinsky discuss Rav Ovadiah’s fearless willingness to take on forces greater and older than he was

The Builders: Rav Ovadiah Yosef Part 1 - Restoring the Crown: Shas and Sephardi Pride

In Part One of a two-part series, Gedalia and Rabbi Galinsky talk about Rav Ovadiah Yosef, the legendary posek and preeminent leader of the Sephardic world. Rav Ovadiah’s

The Builders: Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman - The Wide-Awake Dreamer

In this episode, Gedalia and Rabbi Galinsky discuss the impact that the visionary Ponevezher Rav, Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, had on the Torah world, and how he brought T

The Builders: Rav Aharon Kotler Part 2 - Transplanting Torah to America

In Part Two of this series on Rav Aharon Kotler, Gedalia and Rabbi Galinsky delve into the creation of Lakewood. Today, it is a bastion of Torah; how did Rav Aharon build

The Builders: Rav Aharon Kotler Part 1 - Prewar Europe’s Youngest Rosh Yeshiva

In Part One of a two-part series, Gedalia and Rabbi Galinsky discuss the gadlus of Rav Aharon Kotler 60 years after the petirah of prewar Europe’s youngest rosh yeshivah.