Asher 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.

Family life
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 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.

Before his marriage, Arieli studied in the Ponevezh Yeshiva headed by rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky, and he later studied under his father-in-law in the Mirrer Yeshiva.

Arieli lives in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel where he has also been active in a movement to establish rabbinic overseeing of the rent control there after an inadequate supply of rental units caused prices to rise substantially in a very short time period.

Lectures


The following is a partial list of Arieli's set lectures:
 * Shiur is his daily lecture on the Talmudic tractate officially learned in Mir (Hebrew and repeated in the evening in Yiddish).
 * Monday and Thursday chaburos are twice-weekly lectures on the Talmudic tractate officially learned in Mir (Hebrew)
 * Thursday night chabura is an exclusive lecture expounding on the shiur, formerly delivered in Arieli's home, currently in the Yeshiva, to a select group of senior students.
 * Tuesday night and Friday morning shiur (on Talmudic tractate) given in Tifferet Tzvi, yeshiva haredit for Religious Zionist students.

Additionally, Asher has delivered guest lectures for such events as the Agudat Yisrael annual Yarchei Kallah. The last 3 cycles of Arieli's lectures on most of the major tractates are available by telephone and for download.

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. Lectures in the Mir are often given in Yiddish. One of his chavrusas in Ponevezh, rabbi Avrohom Horovitz, taught him Yiddish.

Students
Several of Arieli's students, such as Rabbis Yoel Rabin, Yehudah Wagshal, Shmuli Wolman, Yaakov Moshe Katz, 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 and Eitan Yaffan are also distinguished talmidim of Arieli. Rabbi Yechiel Spero, author of "Touched by a Story" is also a student of Arieli.

Many of his students are now respected lecturers in yeshivas worldwide, including the USA and the UK.