Asher Arieli

Rabbi Asher Arieli
R' Asher
Title	Rabbi Asher Arieli
Personal
Born	1957 Bnei Brak, Israel
Religion	Judaism
Spouse	Malka Arieli
Denomination	Orthodox
Position	Senior Lecturer
Yeshiva	Mir Yeshiva
Residence	Jerusalem, Israel

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.

Rabbi Asher Arieli is married to Rebbetzin Malka, the daughter of Hagaon Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, the late rosh yeshiva of Mir. Rabbi Arieli is the son of rabbi Chaim Yaakov Arieli, author of Be'er Yaakov (באר יעקב). Rabbi 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 Rabbi 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. Reb Asher's brother Rabbi Shlomo Arieli is the author of a critical edition of the novellae of rabbi Akiva Eiger.

Rabbi 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 Rabbi Arieli daily morning 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.

Since the beginning of the fall semester of 2022, Rabbi Arieli gives his lectures twice daily, adding a second lecture at night. The night lectures are exactly the same as the morning lectures just in hebrew, allowing those more fluent in hebrew to attend in a language they understand.

Several of Rabbi 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. Rabbi Reuven Schwartz, Pinchas Braunstein, Yitzchak Meir Oksenberg, Yisroel Feder and Eitan Yaffan are also distinguished talmidim of Rabbi Arieli. Rabbi Yechiel Spero, author of "Touched by a Story" is also a student of Rabbi Arieli.^[8]

Media related to Asher Arieli at Wikimedia Commons

• Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi dancing with Rabbi Asher Arieli
• Rabbi Arieli's eulogy for his father-in-law Rabbi Nochum Partzovitz