[Avodah] Daf Ha Shavua - Rav Pinchas Mordechai Teitz

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://tinyurl.com/7q8zqds

Rav Pinchas Mordechai Teitz saw opportunities for the growth of Torah 
when he came to the U.S. in 1933. He built a modern Torah community 
in Elizabeth, NJ, where two mikvaos, three schools, and five shuls 
form a united JEC, Jewish Educational Center. In 1953 he wanted to 
enable those who had become disillusioned with socialism and 
Communism to re-connect with the Torah of their youth. He would bring 
the beit midrash into their homes through a weekly half-hour of study 
in Yiddish on their favorite radio station, WEVD. Although a full 
page could not be covered in a half hour, he called it Daf Hashavua. 
Not only did he reach his intended audience, but a government survey 
of foreign language programs found 200,000 listeners. Rav Teitz sent 
tapes of the broadcasts to Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, 
Miami, Montreal, and Philadelphia, initiating the Torah tapes 
phenomenon. Jews in Russia heard the shiurim on short-wave radios 
through Kol Yisrael Lagolah. After he ended the program in 1988 a new 
wave of university students asked for tapes in order to hear pure, 
elegant Litvishe Yiddish. Scholars enjoyed his clarity in explaining 
the gemara; he started each topic with the Torah verses behind it. 
His grandson Avi, who learned with Rav Teitz on Shabbos afternoons, 
said, "Some people make you feel the gemara is too complicated for 
you; Saba makes it clear."

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I lived in Elizabeth, NJ for 6 years from 1968 to 1974 and still have 
warm and positive recollections of Rabbi Teitz.  (See 
http://tinyurl.com/7sv6u3l )  If you have a basic knowledge of 
Yiddish, you will definitely find these shiurim on Makkos given in a 
clear, understandable Litvishe Yiddish both enjoyable and 
enlightening.  Rav Teitz was a master teacher.  YL


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