Asher Weiss
Asher Zelig Weiss is a posek, rosh kollel of Machon Minchas Asher L’Torah V’Horaah and author of the Minchas Asher. He grew up in a Klausenberger hasidic family in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
Biography
Weiss was born in the United States where his father, Holocaust survivor Moshe Weiss, was a real estate agent. He studied at Sanz institutions in the United States. In 1966 the family immigrated to Israel and lived in Kiryat Sanz in Netanya, where he studied and was close to Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam. In 2005 he founded Yeshivat Darchei Torah, which he headed. In its early years, Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky, head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, worked with him.Weiss is a Torah scholar whose lectures and halachic responsa influence poskim internationally. Weiss is posek for Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center, maintains a rabbinic court, Beis Din Tzedek Darchei Torah, and heads kollelim. The Keren Hachesed ‘Chasdei Pesia’ is a charity established in memory of his wife, Pesia Yenta Weiss. He is the Rosh Kollel of Machon Minchas Asher L’Torah V’Horaah.
Weiss wrote the Minchas Asher books on Jewish holidays, Torah, medicine and responsa. In 2021, he published a volume of the Minchas Asher responsa, which deals with the issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel and its implications in Halakha.