Elias Schwartz
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He was a student at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, where his primary influences were Rabbis Shlomo Heiman and Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz[2]
Career
His students and past congregants numbered in the thousands[4]
The two volumes that he authored using the title V'Shee-non-tom (And thou shalt teach them) [5][6] were to extend the work he did in helping to found Olomeinu Magazine.
His synagogue, Young Israel of Bensonhurst, was in a neighborhood that changed several times since he accepted its pulpit "in the early 1960s."[2][7]
Similarly, the backgrounds of his students at Yeshiva Toras Emes Kaminetz changed from "the 1940s..." when "Rabbi Schwartz assumed leadership of Torah Emes."[2][8]
Schwartz also oversaw the relocation of the school's three buildings twice:
- first, from a pair of buildings housing the elementary grades, on 43rd street between 13th and 14th Avenue, and a separate building blocks away housing the high school, all in the lower end of Boro Park, to a single building a mile away
- then, years later, to the Midwood section of Flatbush.[9]
The growing presence of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union within Brooklyn added to both his congregation[4] and the yeshiva, and he helped with "the many challenges they faced."
Works
- V'shee-non-tom, Volume I, For each and every sedra[5]
- V'shee-non-tom, Volume II, Pesach, Shevuos, Succohs[6]
- Delving Within by Rabbi Elias Schwartz[permanent dead link]
In Volume I of V'Shee-non-tom, Schwartz describes his work on this volume as an outgrowth of his work on Olameinu Magazine.[10][11]
First came the weekly mimeograph sheets, sent home to parents of the Yeshiva where he was principal. This came to the attention of NCSY's Rabbi Pinchas Stolper; the material was printed by UOJCA, the parent body, for use by NCSY group leaders.[12]
