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Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen, is a major Orthodox yeshiva in the United States based in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York. It is primarily an American, Lithuanian-style Talmudic yeshiva. The Yeshiva is legally titled Rabbinical Seminary of America (RSA). It is often referred to as just Chofetz Chaim ((ヘブライ語:חָפֵץ חַיִּים)), as that was the nickname of its namesake, Rabbi Yisroel Meir Kagan, who was known as the ''Chofetz Chaim,'' after the name of his book with the same title. ''Chafetz Chaim'' means "Seeker/Desirer () Life" in Hebrew. The book concentrates on the Jewish religious laws of proper speech. Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz, a great-nephew of the Chofetz Chaim, established the yeshiva in 1933. Rabbi Leibowitz was a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel ("The ''Alter of Slabodka''") and he also studied under Rabbi Naftoli Trop and the Chofetz Chaim in the Raduń Yeshiva. Both of these yeshivas were in Lithuania. However, for a time Radin was governed by the Polish. After its founder's death in December 1941, the yeshivah was headed and developed by his son, Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz (d. April 15, 2008〔). Today, it is led by two of Rabbi Henoch's close disciples, Rabbis Dovid Harris and Akiva Grunblatt. 〔()〕 RSA also has a branch in the Sanhedria Murchevet section of Jerusalem, and many affiliates located throughout North America and in Israel, including Miami, Milwaukee, Dallas, Brooklyn, Vancouver, St. Louis, and Rochester, among many others (see complete list below). An Alumni website is located at (www.RSAalums.org ) ==History== The yeshiva was established in 1933 following a dispute between Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz and the administration of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. The cause of the dispute is not well known. At the time, Rabbi Leibowitz,served as the Rosh Yeshiva (dean ), and taught the "top ''shiur''," or most prestigious class, at Torah Vodaas, and when he quit to create his own yeshiva most of his students left with him. The new yeshiva was named for his great uncle Yisroel Meir Kagan,who had died that year. The yeshiva's first building was in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In December 1955 it relocated to Forest Hills, Queens, and at the start of the 2003 academic year, to Kew Gardens Hills, Queens.〔Horowitz, Rebbetzin Faigie. "Jewish Forest Hills: Resilient and resurgent". ''Hamodia'' Magazine. December 13, 2012, pp. 8–11.〕 RSA houses a boys' yeshiva high school, an undergraduate yeshiva, and a rabbinical school that grants ordination. Rabbinical students at the yeshiva often spend a decade or more there, studying a traditional yeshiva curriculum focusing on Talmud, ''mussar'' ("ethics"), and ''halakha'' ("Jewish law"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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