| Rabbi Asher Arieli | |
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| Position | Senior lecturer |
| Yeshiva | Mir Yeshiva |
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| Nationality | Israel |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Residence | Jerusalem, Israel |
Asher Arieli (born 1957) is a senior lecturer at Yeshivas Mir. He is globally renowned for his lectures and is widely recognized as a Gadol in his own right. He presently delivers the largest Talmudic lecture by attendance in the world with approximately 600 daily attendees. His shiur starts at aprox. 6pm daily.
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Rabbi Asher Arieli is married to the daughter of Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, the late Rosh Yeshiva of Mir. Rabbi Arieli is the son of Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Arieli, author of Be'er Yaakov (באר יעקב). Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Arieli was the son of Rabbi Yitzchok Arieli, author of Einaim L'Mishpat (עינים למשפט) and Rosh Yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav. Rabbi Mordechai Ilan, the son-in-law of Rabbi Yitzchok Arieli is Reb Asher's paternal uncle. Reb Chaim Yaakov's wife (see here for a picture of their wedding) is the sister of Rabbi Moishe Sternbuch, as is the wife of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, making the two Rabbis his uncles. Reb Asher's brother Rabbi Shlomo Arieli is the author of a critical edition of the novallae of Rabbi Akiva Eiger.
Before his marriage, Rabbi Arieli studied in the Ponevezh Yeshiva headed by Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky, and he later studied under his father-in-law in the Mirrer Yeshiva.
Rabbi Arieli lives in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem where he has also been active in a movement to establish Rabbinic overseeing of the rent control there after many wealthy chutznikim began to drive up the prices.
The following is a partial list of Reb Asher's set lecture:
Additionally, Reb Asher has delivered guest lectures for such events as the Agudas Yisroel annual Yarchei Kallah.[1] The last eight years of Rabbi Arieli's lectures are available by telephone [2] and for download.[3]
Although Reb Asher's lectures are in Yiddish, his mother tongue is Hebrew and he anecdotally learned Yiddish in order to understand the lectures which he heard in Yeshivas Mir.[4] Rav Eli Baruch Shulman of Yeshiva Rabbeniu Yitzchak Elchanan gives a lecture in the style of the Mirrer derech from where he studied under Reb Nachum as a yungerman.
A handful of Reb Asher's students, such as Rav Eli Reznick,R Moshe Arye Friedman and Rav Yosef Elefant, themselves also give lectures in Yeshivas Mir for English-speaking audiences, mainly in the Beis Yeshaya building of Mir.
Rabbi Yechiel Spero, author of "Touched by a Story" considers himself a student of Reb Asher.[5]
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