Misaskim 
This upcoming Elul, Monsey will find itself with one more top notch Beis Medrash for its
bochrim. Rav Yoni Friedberg will be opening Yeshivas Ner Dovid after months of preparation
and anticipation.
Rav Friedberg learned in Brisk for almost fifteen years, and was privileged to a close
relationship with the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik. Yeshivas Ner
Dovid itself will be cultivated with a strong brisker derech, alongside a positive, upbeat, and
warm environment. “We want to make it geshmake for the boys”, one staff member said. Rav
Friedberg also has ten years of experience running the summer yeshiva, Aberei Lev, up in the
Poconos, where many bochrim metzuyanim, mostly from the Fallsburg Yeshiva, spent their
summers learning. He was also a Rebbe in the beis medrash of Yeshivas Shaarai Torah in
Monsey for almost two years.
The new Yeshiva will have an extremely chashuve staff, including Rabbi Chaim Rubin
of Lakewood, who learned in Passaic under Rav Meir Stern before going to Brisk. He now gives
chaburas in the Lakewood Mesivta. Rav Ahron Mashitz has also joined the staff. Rav Mashitz
is a Rebbi in Yeshivas Ohr haChaim in Queens, and was also a talmid of Rav Meir Stern. Rav
Shammai Einstader, another staff member, learned in the Riverdale Yeshiva before going to
Brisk. Together, they are a true brisker staff whom will work well with the bochrim.
The Yeshiva is named after Rav Friedberg’s late grandfather, Mr. David Harris, who
was nifter around one month ago. At his recently commemorated shloshim, one guest remarked
that even though Mr. Harris was not a brisker, but a true American, he’d surely appreciate the
ehrlechkeit and learning of Brisk.
With the opening of the Yeshiva only a few months away, the staff is working hard to
ensure everything is ready and in place for the bochrim.
(MonseyScoop.com Newsroom)
