| Rabbi Asher Arieli | |
| Rabbi Asher Arieli | |
| Denomination: | Orthodox |
| Yeshiva: | Mir Yeshiva |
| Yeshivaposition: | Senior Lecturer |
| Birth Date: | 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Bnei Brak, Israel |
| Residence: | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Spouse: | Malka Arieli |
Rabbi Asher Arieli (born 1957) is an Israeli rabbi and the senior lecturer at the Mir Yeshiva in Israel. He is globally renowned for his lectures on Talmud and is widely recognized as a leading figure in the haredi community. He presently delivers the largest Talmudic lecture by attendance in the world with over 1000 daily attendees. His primary, daily shiur begins at 12:20pm and is streamed live at Kol Haloshon.
Asher Arieli is married to rebbetzin Malka, the daughter of hagaon rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, the late rosh yeshiva of Mir. Arieli is the son of rabbi Chaim Yaakov Arieli, author of Be'er Yaakov (באר יעקב). Chaim Yaakov Arieli was the son of rabbi Yitzhak Arieli, author of Einaim L'Mishpat (עינים למשפט) and mashgiach ruchani of Mercaz HaRav. Rabbi Mordechai Ilan, the son-in-law of Yitzhak Arieli is Asher's paternal uncle. Reb Chaim Yaakov's wife[1] is the sister of rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, as are the wives of rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik and Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu making the three rabbis his uncles. Asher's brother rabbi Shlomo Arieli is the author of a critical edition of the novellae of rabbi Akiva Eiger.
Arieli has delivered guest lectures for such events as the Agudat Yisrael annual Yarchei Kallah.[2] [3] The last 3 cycles of Arieli's lectures on most of the major tractates are available by telephone[4] and for download.[5]
Although Arieli's lectures are in Yiddish, his mother tongue is Hebrew and he only learnt Yiddish in order to understand the lectures which he heard in the Mir Yeshiva.[6] Lectures in the Mir are often given in Yiddish. One of his chavrusas in Ponevezh, rabbi Avrohom Horovitz, taught him Yiddish.
Several of Arieli's students, such as Rabbis Yoel Rabin, Yehudah Wagshal, Shmuli Wolman, Yaakov Moshe Katz,[7] Binyomin Cohen, Elimelech Reznick, Moshe Ahron Friedman, Yosef Elefant, Eli Friedman, and Shamai Bernstein give lectures in the Mir Yeshiva for English-speaking audiences, mainly in the Beis Yeshaya building of Mir. All these students do not wear ties when they lecture, out of deference to Rabbi Arieli who doesn't wear a tie when he lectures out of modesty. Pinchas Braunstein, Yitzchak Meir Oksenberg, Yisroel Feder and Eitan Yaffan are also distinguished talmidim of Arieli. Rabbi Yechiel Spero, author of "Touched by a Story" is also a student of Arieli.[8]