Rabbi Moshe Blooming

From a long line of rabbinic lineage, and himself a recognized talmid chacham, Rabbi Blooming continues his family’s tradition of spending their days and nights toiling in Torah.  His father is a rosh yeshiva in Monsey, NY.  His father-in-law is Rabbi Ben Tzion Vosner, shlita, son of one of the Gadolei Hador, Harav Shmuel Vosner, shlita.

Rabbi Blooming himself is unique in having had broad exposure to both the Chassidic and Yeshivish approaches.  A chassid of the Skiver Rebbe, his years learning have been exclusively at Litvish Yeshivas.  He also learned together in chavrusa for five years with the current Rachmastrivka Rebbe, Rabbi Dovid Twersky, shlita.

Rabbi Blooming moved to Ramat Beit Shemesh in 2000 when he was offered the position of Rosh Kollel of one of the top kollelim in the Beit Shemesh area -- Shevet Halevy.  In addition to his work as a Rosh Kollel he joined the staff of Lev Yisrael, giving daily classes in Gemara and Chassidic thought.  He lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh with his wife and children, recently celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of his oldest son.

Rabbi Moshe Charnet

Rabbi Moshe Charnet began his career (in Torah) as a student at Yeshiva Torah V'da'as in Brooklyn.  He has come to embody the philosophy of Torah V'da'as, delving into Torah with the depth and persistence of the greatest Lithuanian Yeshivas, while maintaining the fire and passion of serving Hashem so well defined by the Chassidic movement.  Rabbi Charnet has merited to learn under two of the great leaders of the Jewish world today, building a close relationship with Rabbi Moshe Wolfson, shlita, Mashgiach of Torah V'da'as, and learning from 1980-1988 under Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Shienberg, shlita, at Yeshiva Torah Ohr. 

He has taught both yeshiva ketana and yeshiva gedola as maggid shiur at some of the top yeshivos in Israel for over 15 years.  Rabbi Charnet helped build the foundations of Lev Yisrael's Beis Midrash program as our  first maggid shiur in 2000.  He currently teaches the advanced level gemara shiur and evening classes in Jewish Law and Chassidic Thought.  He resides with his wife and children in the Minchas Yitzchok area of Jerusalem.

Rabbi Doniel Faber

Rabbi Doniel Faber has been one of the pillars in building Lev Yisrael, acting both has Mashgiach and Menahal (head administrator). Raised in Calgary, Alberta Canada, Rabbi Faber graduated from Yeshiva University with a BA in Economics.  From 1990 untill 2000 he studied at various yeshivos in American and Israel, including Yeshivat Hamivtar, Heichel Hafla, and Beis Yehuda of Bayit Vegan.  He Recieved Smicha from Rabbi Pam, zt"l, in 1995.  In 2000, Rabbi Faber became director of the worldwide institutions of the Bostoner Chassidim of New York, working directly under the Admor of Boston, shlita.  After two years with Boston, he became director of Ateret Yerushalayim (AJ). In the Fall of 2002, Rabbi Faber joined Lev Yisrael, helping lay the physical and spiritual foundations.  He lives with his wife and children in Ramat Beit Shemesh.

Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Wenglin

Rabbi Y.Y.  Wenglin became a student and teacher at Lev Yisrael in the spring of 2001.  Before coming to Israel, Wenglin graduated with a B.A.  cum laude in History and Literature from Harvard University. At the same time, he was the student manager of the Men’s Ice Hockey team, which, during his senior year, won the NCAA Championship.  After graduating from Harvard, Wenglin worked as an operations executive for Bloomingdale’s in their management training program before attending the UCLA School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review.  After graduation, Wenglin joined the Manhatten law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a corporate associate, working two years in their mergers and acquisitions subgroup.  The potential of his growth towards becoming a partner was tangible, but at the end of 1996 he ventured to put on hold that success in order to learn more about his Jewish roots.  Wenglin then moved to Jerusalem, where he started taking introductory classes at a yeshiva that focuses on educating young, Jewish men who were raised in non-observant homes about Torah-observant Judaism.  Four years after arriving in Israel, Wenglin joined Lev Yisrael.  In the summer of 2002, he was named Director of Education, and a year later he was promoted to be Executive Director of the organization.  He currently lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh with his wife and two children.

Rabbi Nachum Chaimowitz

Rabbi Nachum Chaimowitz graduated in ’74 as a valedictorian of the Yeshiva of Flatbush and subsequently went on to MTA and Yeshivah University.  He studied in Israel for two years under the tutelage of his mentor and teacher Rabbi C.Y.  Goldvicht, zt"l, at Yeshivat Kerem B’Yanve.  From there he continued to study in Israel at Yeshivas Be’er Ya’akov for almost two years, where he received insights and guidance from Rabbi S.  Wolbe, shlita.  He then learned in the Mir Yeshivah in Brooklyn, NY by Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, shlita, whilst simultaneously developing a close connection with the Belz chassidic community of Williamsburg.  About a year prior to his engagement, he returned to Israel to study in the Yeshivah Gedola of Belz in Yerushalayim where he merited to receive a personal connection with the Belzer Rebbe, shilta, and to deliver an oral review of the insights and divrei Torah that the Rebbe would teach every Shabbos.  In ’85 he was married and soon thereafter was accepted into a five-year program of the Belzer Rebbe’s personal kollel where he studied Yoreh Dayah and merited to complete an extended series of tests on all Shas Bavli.   

Rabbi Chaimowitz received ordination from the Belzer Bais Din in Eretz Yisrael in ’96 and initially began to work with Israeli Ba’alei Tshuva at the Belz Yeshiva for Ba’alei Tshuvah - Torah V’emunah.  At the age of 32 he merited to publish a Hebrew sefer called "Malbushei Kavod V’Tiferes" - a summary of the laws pertaining to wearing clothes of the opposite gender - as well as the English counterpart to the sefer called Timeless Fashion.  After being involved in Torah V’emunah for numerous years, he began to work with English speaking Ba’alei Tshuva: first at Shalom Rav -- Yerushalyim (1.5 years) and then at Aish Hatroah -- Yerushalyim (2.5 years).  In Elul of ’00, he merited to open his own yeshiva -- Lev Yisrael -- now located in the growing city of Ramat Beit Shemesh.