National Council of Young Israel Presents

Holiday Divrey Torah

Rabbi Shimon Silver's Halochoscope Series

Volume 11

Number 50 Havdalah

Number 49 Avoiding Mixing Fish and Meat

Number 48 on The Three Weeks and Attending a Sporting Event on a Tanis/Fast Day

Number 47 on Boneh/Building on Shabbos

Number 46 on Techum Shabbos

Number 41 on Chometz Not Sold on Pesach

Number 40 on Sefiras HaOmer

Number 39 on Chol HaMoed

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Volume 9

Number 20 onThe Obligation and Laws of Mezuzah

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Volume 8

Number 16 on Crushing and Making Ice on Shabbos

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Volume 3

Number 31 on Building a Tent on Shabbos and Other Dinim Related to Camping

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About Rabbi Silver

        Rabbi Shimon Silver of the Young Israel of Greater Pittsburgh was born in London, England in 1960. He was educated at Hasmonean Grammar School. After graduating with his ‘O-levels’, he stayed on two more years for his A-levels before attending Gateshead Yeshiva.
         At Gateshead, Rabbi Silver studied under, among others, R’ Leib Gurwicz, R’ Leib Lopian, R’ Moshe Schwab, R’ Avrohom Gurwicz and R’ Mattisyahu Salomon, currently mashgiach in Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood. In 1982, Rabbi Silver began his studies in Beth Medrash Govoha. He settled there for 3 years after marrying Chani Goldman of Washington Heights, NY in 1983. Rabbi Silver earned his Semicha in 1985 from Beth Medrash Govoha.
         Since 1985, Rabbi Silver has served as a founding Kollel fellow at the West Side Kollel in Manhattan, a member of the Kollel in Pittsburgh, Rabbi of Shaare Tefillah (the “Russian Shul”), and Bais Medrash rebbe at the Mesivta of Greater Pittsburgh in White Oak, PA. In 1991 he launched his Halochoscope weekly. This newsletter subsequently became very popular in the Pittsburgh community and nationwide. Although it is currently not being produced, it will probably be revived due to demand.
         Rebitzen Chani Silver, nee Goldman, was born in 1963 in Washington Heights, New York. She grew up in the Breuer’s Kehillah, attending Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch through high school graduation. After attending the City University of New York for a short while, studying computer science, Chani then attended the Manchester Bais Yaakov seminary in England. Upon returning to the States, Chani attended COPE Vocational Institute and trained as a computer programmer. She worked as a programmer for the NY board of Education, for a company in Lakewood New Jersey, and as a consultant in New York.
         Since moving to Pittsburgh, Chani worked for a software company in Oakland and as a software quality assurance consultant, before her present work as the technology director of Hillel Academy and, now, computer teacher at Yeshiva Achei Temimim as well. For a short while, Rebitzen Silver edited and produced the Pittsburgh Counterpart, a magazine for Jewish Women.
         Rabbi and Mrs. Silver currently live in Squirrel Hill with 6 of their children; their oldest daughter is married and lives in Israel.

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