A Gerrer Torah leader
Rabbi Shaul Alter is a leading Torah figure within Ger. A son of the Pnei Menachem zt"l — Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter, who led Ger before his passing — he served as rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Sfas Emes in Jerusalem and teaches a large circle of talmidim. His shiurim carry the imprint of the Gerrer beis medrash: rigorous in learning and rooted in the chassidic thought of the Sfas Emes and the masters before him.
Some of the recorded shiurim are delivered in Yiddish and some in Hebrew, as the titles show, including classes given in the setting of Yeshivas Pnei Menachem. For a listener drawn to the Gerrer derech, the collection is a chance to hear a rosh yeshiva who lives inside that tradition rather than describing it from outside.
Gemara, halacha, and the inner will
The learning here reaches across the range a rosh yeshiva covers. There are iyun shiurim in Gemara and in the shitos of the Rambam — one class works through the Rambam's view in matters of guarding hekdesh — alongside halachic study. This is the analytic side of the collection, where a sugya is opened up carefully and its underlying principles drawn out.
Running through much of his machshava is a single theme he returns to again and again: the inner will, the koach haratzon hapnimi, on which everything is said to depend. Classes on emunas tzaddikim and on serving Hashem without personal calculation belong to this same world — the effort to reach past external actions toward the deeper resolve of the soul. It is Chassidus taught as avodah, not as history.
Chassidus through the year
Rabbi Alter also teaches the Jewish calendar through this inner lens. His classes on Rosh Hashanah La'ilan — Tu BiShvat, the new year for the trees — read the day for its spiritual meaning rather than its agricultural detail, tying it back to the theme of inner will. Rosh Chodesh and the holidays receive the same treatment across the collection.
He does not shy from the heavier questions either, addressing tragic events through a Torah lens and asking how emunah holds under strain. Taken together, the shiurim offer a rounded picture of a Gerrer approach to the year: every date, joyful or painful, becomes an occasion to turn inward and strengthen one's bond with Hashem and with the tzaddikim.
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Key takeaways
- Rabbi Shaul Alter is a son of the Pnei Menachem of Ger and served as rosh yeshiva of Sfas Emes in Jerusalem.
- His shiurim range from iyun in Gemara and the Rambam to the inner teachings of Chassidus.
- A recurring theme is the koach haratzon — the inner will on which avodas Hashem depends.
- He teaches the calendar, including Tu BiShvat and Rosh Chodesh, through a Gerrer chassidic lens, with some shiurim in Yiddish.
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