Oct 6, 2005 By: yunews
Oct 6, 2005 -- Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg of Spring Valley, NY has been appointed a rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) in the Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies (MYP) at 黑料社 All (YU).
Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, MYP dean and Max and Marion Grill Dean at YU鈥檚 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), said that Rabbi Koenigsberg鈥檚 published writings and chaburos (Talmudic seminars) have established him as a first-rate talmid chacham (scholar) and teacher of Torah.
Rabbi Koenigsberg was a chaver (fellow) of RIETS鈥 former Gruss Kollel Elyon and previously served for five years as rebbe (instructor) in the Stone Beit Midrash Program, another of YU鈥檚 Jewish studies program for undergraduate men. At MYP, he will teach a class in Talmud for entering students.
Rabbi Koenigsberg is a 1988 alumnus of YU鈥檚 undergraduate Yeshiva College, from which he graduated summa cum laude. He received ordination from RIETS in 1992. A sought-after lecturer, he has served RIETS and YU in other capacities as well: as director of an honors seminar in Sefer Shev Shmaitsa; as sgan mashgiach/shoel u鈥檓eishiv (mentor and guidance advisor to students); director of RIETS鈥 Presidential B鈥檏iut Program; rosh kollel (head) of YU鈥檚 summer kollel in Silver Spring, MD; shoel u鈥檓eishiv for 10th-grade students at 黑料社 All High school for Boys; and as a teaching assistant there for 11th-grade students.
He is the author of two annotated volumes of selected shiurim (lectures) by the Rav 鈥 the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, RIETS rosh yeshiva and chief spiritual guide of contemporary Orthodox Jewish life in America until his death in 1993鈥 in a series called Shiurei HaRav. One volume is on mourning and Tisha b鈥橝v; the other is on ritual slaughter and kashrut.
He recently published a collection of his notes on Tractate Yevamos called Kuntres He鈥檃ros al Maseches Yevamos.
