Berel Wein
| Rabbi Berel Wein | |
|---|---|
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland |
| Began | 1977 |
| Ended | 1997 |
| Other | Senior faculty member, Yeshiva Ohr Somayach |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Berel Wein |
| Born |
March 25, 1934 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Father | Zev Wein |
| Mother | Esther |
| Spouse | Yocheved (Jackie) Levin (m. 1955; her death 2006) |
| Alma mater |
Roosevelt University DePaul University |
Berel Wein (born March 25, 1934) is an American-born Orthodox rabbi, lecturer and writer. He authored several books concerning Jewish history and popularized the subject through more than 1,000 audio tapes, newspaper articles and international lectures. Throughout his career, he has retained personal and ideological ties to both Modern Orthodox and Haredi Judaism.
Wein was born March 25, 1934 in Chicago to a family descended from Lithuanian rabbis. His father, Zev, emigrated to the United States and served as a Rabbi in Chicago until the 1970s.
In 1955 he married Yocheved (Jackie) Levin, who had been born in Vaskai, Lithuania, in 1934 and had emigrated to Detroit with her parents at the age of 4. Jackie's father, Rabbi Eliezer Levin, served as Rabbi of Congregation Beth Tefiloh Emanuel and led the triumvirate of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis (COR) of Greater Detroit, in that city, for over 60 years. The couple settled in Chicago, where their four children—Miriam, Dinah, Chaim Tzvi, and Sori—were born. Rabbi Wein has 29 grandchildren and 70 great-grandchildren living in both Israel and America.
Rabanit Yocheved 'Jackie' Wein z"l died on May 25, 2006, and was buried on the Mount of Olives. Rabbi Wein has subsequently remarried and continues to live in Rehavia.
Wein received semicha (rabbinic ordination) from Hebrew Theological College, which was founded by his maternal grandfather, Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Rubinstein. His main teacher was Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth and his personal mentors there included Rabbis Mordechai Rogow and Yisrael Mendel Kaplan. He was a student of the late Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman in Chicago, and spoke at the latter's funeral [1].
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