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Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel

Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel a leading figure in the American ultra orthodox jewish community, is a son of Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel and in his early teenage years became from the first students of Rabbi Aharon Kotler at Beis Medrash Govoha in Lakewood NJ, eventually continuing on to Jerusalem where he studied by Rabbi Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik. After marrying the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro he moved together with his wife Mina to South Fallsburg NY where he became the dean of Yeshiva Zichron Moshe, a college for advanced Talmudic research.

Rosh Yeshiva

The Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe where he lectures four times a week attracts top caliber students who are able to keep up with the high standard studies, and the depth and intensity of Rabbi Elya Ber's Talmudic discourses. Already as a child he was recognized as a prodigious kid, hence enabling to tackle the studied material at dizzying speed encompassing every subject in its entirety while analyzing it at its full depth. Which subsequently sets the general standard for the level of studying taking place in at the Yeshiva as a whole.

Leadership Role

Besides for personal connections he maintains with his vast alumni, consisting of the many students that have passed through the Yeshiva, many of them who've become Roshei Yeshiva in their own right - Eli Yagort being a case in point - who see the Rosh Yeshiva as their role model and turn to him for advice and guidance on a daily basis, he is also turned to by the leading Rabbis In Lakewood who'm consider his opinion to be final in any matter.

Israeli Politics

He takes great interest in the welfare of the Israeli ultra orthodox community to the extent that on the June of 2013 he initiated a major protest in Washington when he felt that their exemption from military service in Israel was in jeopardy, an event that was very well attended at his behest. Eventually he signed a letter of support for the Yeshiva studrnts in Israel together with Rabbi Malkiel Kotler and Rabbi Aharon Shechter.

Rama Bay Kala (Rama Bai Kala)

His torah thoughts are disseminated by his students through the publication of the weekly journal Rama Bai Kala, which is printed on the Yeshiva grounds and given out in digital copies to the Yeshivah's alumni and beyond.