Most people are fond of any of these rabbis and rebbitzens listed below, who do you like and why

rabbi pesach krohn
rabbi yissochar frand
rabbi berel wein
rabbi avigdor miller

rebbitzen davis
rebbitzen jungreis
rebbitzen shira smiles

the list goes on and on

Rebbetzin Zahava Braunstien rocks!

Rabbi Yisroel Reisman rocks!

Rabbi Dovid Ordman of Gateways
Rabbi Moshe Eisemann of NIRC

yay rebbitzen braunstien

as for others....too many to name bH

rabbi pesach krohn & rabbi berel wein's parsha tapes do it for me.

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The Admou"r meCreedmoor, Rabbi Dovid Goldman, is the tzaddik hador. Do a search in Google Groups to read his great insights into the Torah.

How can I forget my Rebbe Mivhek, the Yarmer Rav Shlit"a, aka Rabbi Yankel Miller. A source of inspiration to million since before the war.

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I assume you mean the badchan, that is so like you.

Rabbi Yankel Miller rocks!

you're all forgetting the WHY part...

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky
Rabbi Akiva Tatz
Rabbi Menachem Nissel
Rabbi Pinchas Schienberg
Rabbi yaakov Hillel

R' B Wein because he teaches very interesting facts about history.

And Rabbi Reisman is so on the money with many of his tapes, and you never know what direction he will go in with his shiur when he begins. The best one i heard from him is the one on Achdus. (Fargin, Farcook)

I listened to R' Reisman's tapes on halachos of nidda and was very impressed with them. He had a good approach and spoke well on the subject.
I generally like R' Frand's tapes but occasionally I find one or two that are stinkers. I liked his first book and thought his second book was lousy, preachy and kvetching.

R' Yisroel Simcha Schorr
R' Avrohom Schorr
R' Ezriel Tauber
R' Dovid Cohen

I tend to go for the the tochen more than intertainment.

Rabbi D Orlofsky. Great for listening too on long trips.

I vote for R. Frand.

Not entirely on topic, but she passed away not long ago.

Itche is that you??? your here since sept 03???

OY! That was an account I set up - yes - I did come in way back when. But at some point someone hijacked it - I was very stupid when choosing a password.

That post was not mine - I would never post the name David Goldman on this forum. He was actually the original Usenet troll whom I crowned Admou"r meCreedmoor. At this point he is not even a faint memory, and the Admou"r meCreedmoor is registered under the name Dovid Shmoigerman.

The Admou"r will actually be online himself in 40 minutes or so!

Currently, my favorite tapes to listen to are R' Avigdor Miller, he is sharp and to the point though..so if you like cushiony type I don't recommend him b/c he says it straight out as it is..(I have one in the house I am in the middle of that I listen to while cleaning up and a diff. one in the car since I can't put on music anyways) and he's Great.

Rabbi Yaakov Haber
Rabbi P Krohn
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

Rabbi Akiva Tatz

when i see rabbi and superstar put together i imagine a buncha long bearded men with black hats gettin down on the basketball court. ahh. do they really do that?

but uh...i dont know who any of these people are but i believe i have heard of rabbi krohn so im going to vote for him.

Never met a Rabbi I liked.
If I had to choose, though, I'd go with R' Eisemann. And R' Tzvi.

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You should hear him in the men's club, at 10:30 AM during the neilas shaar.

איך קען מיך פארשטעלן

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His tapes are intensely not funny.

I assume you're referring to the english tapes.

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Both, though admittedly, my Yiddish needs work.

Rabbi Jonathan Rietti

If that's your opnion of his Yiddish comedy, you either:

- have no sense of humor
- as you say, need to brush up on your yiddish, badly.
- are dead

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I think I would like his tapes too. I don't mind the straight forwardness. I feel that I'm open to take in info. that can help me a lot.

I also like those that others mentioned, R. Tatz and R. Orlofsky.

Any place I could find his tapes, either English or Yiddish?

Rebbetzin Tzipporah Heller, for her eloquent and intellectualized speaking style. I love her articles, too!

Rabbi Dovid Orlofski, 'cause he's funny ( and inspiring)

I wish he would quote sources for the things he says.

From the Israeli side:
R' Mordechai Rotenshtein
R' Motti Elon
And our "badchan" Rav Lasry, who has everybody holding his kishkes and rolling on the floor.

Rabbi Frand - always intelectually stimulating
Rabbi Wein - always interesting
Rabbi Rosenfeldt z'l (the late Rabbi Aryeh Kaplans teacher) - the tapes to listen to if you want to learn simple emunah.

Rabbi Rafael Gelley (NJ)
Rabbi Keleman

In halacha:
Rav Asher Balenson
Rav Moshe Kletenik
In hashkafa:
Rav Ezra Neuberger
Rav Tzvi Berkowitz

All four are experts in halacha and hashkafa, but the first 2 specialize in halacha and the last 2 specialize in hashkafa (and giving great shiur).

I like Shmuley Boteach a lot.
Although he is not so accessible - I went to him for Shabbat dinner once, but he is often travelling or shmoozing. He is not a real "personal rav."
But I really like his ideas.
He is the perfect combination of traditional and modern.
He is traditional in all the ways I am, but modern in many of the ways I am.
For example, he is very pro-woman, and lays a lot of responsibility for the problems of the relationships between the genders in the Jewish world on men,for not treating women right.
However, he is not a "feminist" in that he thinks woman and men should be equal in all ways. He simply feels women should be respected more.
He's actually an innovative thinker - about things like women, homosexuality,intermarriage. I guess he's sort of moderate.
He doesn't recommend these things - homosexuality and intermarriage, for example. Yet he doesn't feel people should be excommunicated from the Jewish community because of them, because that may have more negative effects than positive.

is he a rav at all..? (runs to duck under table before the onslaught)

Of course he's a rav. He got smicha as a lubavicher.

But do the Lubavitch still consider him 'one of theirs?? (I'm sure if they knew what he would go on to do they wouldn't have given it to him..much the like Bergs' smicha..)

No the Lubavichers don't consider him Lubavicher, nor does he consider himself Lubavicher anymore I believe (although I saw a picture of the rebbe in his house I'm almost sure.)
However,all that doesn't negate the fact that he did receive smicha.

What does having semichah mean? If you have a problem salting meat after your husband kills it in the backyard, you can phone him up, but what else?

ouch

we're not debating whether he's Lubavitch or not. Rather if he's abused the privilege..

I don't see why all the hostility?
If someone got smicha he is a rav, and not just for kashrut questions,right?