Rabbi Binyomin Luban is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes in

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Life and education

Rabbi Luban was born and raised in

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. His brother is Rabbi Yaakov Luban, the rabbinic coordinator of the

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division. He attended the flagship high school of the

Rabbinical Seminary of America Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim (also known as the Rabbinical Seminary of America) is an 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 ...

(RSA) in Queens during the early 1970s. After completing high school he studied for a year at the Seminary's affiliate in the

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section of

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. While there, he learned with Rabbi Avrohom Kanarek and Rabbi Shia Grodzitski, both students of Rabbi

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, the dean of the pre-World War II rabbinical seminary, which was known as Kaminetz. Luban then returned to America, where he studied for over 15 years at RSA under the tutelage of Rabbi

Henoch Leibowitz Alter Chanoch Henoch Hakohen Leibowitz (c. 1918His date of birth is uncertain, but his passport read June 2, 1918. – April 15, 2008) was an Orthodox rabbi who was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen, which was founded ...

. He received his rabbinic ordination in the early 1980s.

Career

In 1988 Luban moved with his family to

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, where he took a position as a teacher at Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim-Israel Branch, his former school. He worked in conjunction with both Rabbi Kanarek and Rabbi Dovid Chait inspiring his students to grow in both Torah and Mussar. While there he incorporated the concept of a Mussar Vaad- an approach to help students deal with life's challenges. In the fall of 2000 Luban was offered a position as Rosh Yeshiva of RSA's affiliate in North Miami Beach. After getting a blessing of success from Leibowitz, he moved to Florida to assume the position. Under his auspices, the student body at the

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level more than tripled. Luban began publishing his original Talmud ideas while a student at RSA. Since then, he has published works on at least eight tractates of the

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. Some have been published in several editions, as he is continuously expanding and revising those works. The name of his work is Biurim Veiyunim. He has also published Leibowitz's sermons on the Pentateuch, called Chiddushei Haleiv. The recently published volume on

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also containing a section with sermons on

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and the

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(the Jewish day of mourning) prayer service.

References

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