"We came together to understand and to appreciate what it means to be an amal baTorah, what our limud haTorah means to the world."
Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler
ROSH HAYESHIVA
BAIS MEDRASH GOVOHA
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"We have to all add to our avodas Hashem. That’s what must emerge from this maamad."
Rav Yeruchem Olshin
Rosh Yeshiva
BAIS MEDRASH GOVOHA
"This מעמד is the culmination of the מסירת נפש of the לומדי תורה and the מורינו ראש הישיבה זצוק״ל וממשיכי דרכו. The מחזיקי תורה proclaiming the קיום of that which Reb Chaim Volozner said that America will be the last station of תורה before ביאת משיח."
Harav Dovid Schustal
Rosh Yeshiva
BAIS MEDRASH GOVOHA
"I’ve never seen such מורדיק רומומות of כבוד התורה. The Lomdei Torah realize who they are and their value, the balebatim recognize the value of a ben Torah."
Rav Yisroel Neumann
Rosh Yeshiva
BAIS MEDRASH GOVOHA
"We must know… only Torah... Hashem created the entire world for Torah."
Hagaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman
"Sadna De'Ara Chad – in Eretz Yisrael people are engrossed in learning, In America people are engrossed in learning, it's refreshing to see how remarkably similar the Torah world is everywhere!".
Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau
"The Chofetz Chaim says everything the Talmid Chacham learns automatically the Machzikei Hatorah will know in the Olam HaEmes. The greatest investment that a person can make, is investing in Lakewood's Limud HaTorah."
HaRav Elya Chaim Swerdloff
Rosh HaYeshiva
Yeshiva of Paterson
"Lakewood is an empire that exports Torah to the whole world."
HaRav Elya Brudny
"When someone supports Torah he understands that... it's really bringing support for himself"
HaRav Yaakov Shneidman
""[Those who support] should be carried by all the
segulos from theTorah, אורך ימים בימינו בשמאל ועושרו כבוד
"
HaRav Elimelech Biderman
"Tonight’s asifa is a revolution, a revolution in attitude. We are declaring that we believe and we are committed to live with that awareness that indeed ha’Aron nosei es nosav. This has to become the new understanding – it’s really an old understanding – living with it and lifting up the entire briah."
Rav Ephraim Wachsman
ROSH HAYESHIVA
Meohr Yitzchok
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"[These are] ameilei Torah with mesirus nefesh, ameilei Torah who give their entire lives to Torah and Klal Yisroel."
HaRav Dovid Cohen
ROSH HAYESHIVA
Knesses Yisroel- Chevron
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"Nesius Aron are the badim, the cheilek of the tomchei Torah. They are tomeich the Torah with such ahavas haTorah, such a bren for Torah, such a reinkeit. They are tomeich the Torah because they are machshiv the ben Torah. They know what the Torah does for them.”
Harav Yitzchok Sorotzkin
Rosh Yeshiva
Telshe & mesivta of lakewood
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"Through the כבוד התורה that will come out of this מעמד (through the Learning Torah and the support) will definitely bring out the שכינה, enough שכינה that we will be זוכה to the גאולה שלמה במהרה."
HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch
Rosh Yeshiva
Yeshivas Slabodka
