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Rav Judah Mischel

Rav Judah Mischel is executive director of Camp HASC, the Hebrew Academy for Special Children. He is the mashpiah of OU-NCSY, founder of Tzama Nafshi and the author of “Baderech: Along the Path of Teshuva.” Rav Judah lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh with his wife Ora and their family.

Articles by Rav Judah Mischel

The Greatest Avodah

Rav Yisroel Belsky, zt”l — rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaas — was an exceptional Torah personality and one of the great poskim of our generation.

L’Chaim!

Rav Yitzchak Zilber, zt”l, legendary champion of Russian Jewry, was a humble talmid chacham and teacher whose incredible self-sacrifice and dedication inspired and strengthened generations

Sweet Talk

Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, zt”l, was undoubtedly the greatest expositor of the secrets of Torah since Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar. Known by

Bereishis: In His Image

Rav Nosson Zvi Finkel, zt”l, the Alter of Slabodka, was an educational pioneer and the primary figure responsible for implementing the mussar revolution in the

Sukkos: Festival of Gathering

Rebbe Aharon Perlow, zt”l — the third rebbe of the Karliner dynasty — was known by the name of his sefer, “Beis Aharon.” A beloved

Standing Before God

As the longest serving rabbi in Minnesota, Rav Moshe Feller is among the senior shluchim of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. As a young man, Rabbi Feller

Selichos!

The central beis midrash of Belz was packed with an overflowing crowd, throngs of chasidim were eagerly anticipating the solemn beginning of the Yamim Nora’im.

For Others

When the Lubavitcher Rebbe shared the following story, which he heard from his father-in-law, the “Frierdiker,” or previous Rebbe, he remarked that there was a

No Retreat

Reb Yitzchok Meir Gershtenkorn was a man of vision and action, a builder of both the people of Israel and the land of Israel. As

Eikev and Emunah P’Shutah

Rebbe Avraham Dov of Avritch, zy”a, the Bas Ayin, was a leading disciple of the Kedushas Levi, Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, and one of

Va’etchanan / Nachamu

Rebbe Moshe Yechiel Epstein, zt”l, was a masmid and brilliant Torah scholar who authored the 20 volume encyclopedic work on Jewish thought, “Sefer Aish Dos,”

Chazon: If Only!

In the mid 1960s, renowned philosopher, author and educator Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, z”l, was chairman of the rabbinic program admissions committee at the Jewish