The Secret of Great Jewish Educators: Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Senter
Behind the Bima
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Bokur Tome, Florida, this is Behind the Bima. |
| 0:04.0 | On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Rabbi Chaim Tsefi Center, |
| 0:07.0 | Rush Yeshiyah of Yeshiva Sadeh Saras the Torah in Yerushalayan, |
| 0:10.0 | and longtime Mechaneg, who carries forward a family legacy of Torah education and connection to Talmuddin. |
| 0:16.0 | Rabbi Center reflects on what it really means to teach the next generation, |
| 0:20.0 | sharing lessons from the educators who shaped him, |
| 0:22.3 | and explaining why great teachers don't just love their subject, they love their students. |
| 0:26.5 | Rabbi Senter speaks about building a yeshiva that feels like a family, |
| 0:29.8 | the challenges today's Bukhram face, and how Chinnach must adapt while remaining rooted in timeless values. |
| 0:35.4 | All this and more, Behind the Bima. |
| 1:28.2 | This season of Behind the Bima is sponsored by Julie Charleston and Daryl Benjamin in honor of their grandparents, Morton and Malvina Charleston, and their children, Ruby and Maccabi Benjamin. Welcome back behind the Bima, back in our studio, Robynne, Moscow. It's the last episode that came out. Our intro, our conversation was filmed in a little bit of a different location. Very different location. We were in Israel and it was a lot of fun actually to film it there. It was incredible. For people who don't know or haven't watched it, I actually wanted to show it to my wife last night. I'm like, check out the intro to find the Bima. Esty, my daughter is the one who was with us and took on the video. It looks pretty professional considering, it looks like it could be a tunnel in Gaza if there's no context. We took it in Irdavid. The pilgrimage road is now entirely excavated and you can go all the way from the bottom and walk up the same way during the time of the second base of Mekdesher ancestors walked and come out at the Coetal Harabayas, |
| 1:29.2 | it's an amazing thing. |
| 1:43.7 | And you know the timing that we did that, obviously in the lead up to Pesach, when so many Jews would be coming to Haribais, you really just closed your eyes and you envisioned everyone walking up that road. And you kind of get the goosebumps about it, you know, envisioning what it was like when it was packed and the markets were open and people were carrying animals in Corbondos |
| 1:45.9 | it was just, it was very beautiful. |
| 1:47.3 | But here in Bokker, envisioning what it was like when it was packed and the markets were open and people were carrying |
| 1:44.9 | animals and Corbinos. It was just, it was very beautiful. But here in Boko Atone, Pesach prep looks a little bit different. Wow, look at the smooth segue. By the way, that was a smooth segue. You must be a rabbi. He must be, right? Pesach prep looks a little bit different. Unfortunately, right now, we're not being Ola-Leregol, |
| 1:59.2 | and we're not going to Erich Sirel for |
| 2:00.5 | to build the base in Madesh, |
| 2:02.4 | hopefully soon. |
| 2:03.3 | Amen. |
| 2:03.8 | But for rabbis, pre-Pesach looks a little bit different. You are preparing for Shabazzagado-Drusha. You're answering every Shaila from every supermarket. People want to know symbols. They want to know. So are you. I am too. I'm saying, but walk our listeners through what that looks like |
| 2:19.8 | for a rabbi. Pre-Pesach? Pre-Pesach. You got Shabbas-A-Gadol, you're answering Shailas. You're trying to help your own family. What does that look like? Well, first of all, we're back in the studio we almost weren't we got out of the last plane um i almost i got out because i feel |
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