Reb Nachman Bulman. His parents, Reb Meir and Ettel Bulman were Gerrer chasidim who had moved to the Lower East Side from Poland. Reb Meir had lost his first wife in childbirth and his second wife in a pogrom. He had also lost two children. Now in their 40s, the Bulmans beseeched the Imrei Emes of Ger for a brochoh for children. The result of that blessing was Nachman, who was born in New York. He attended Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchok Elchonon and then studied in its rabbinical program. He received semicha and a B.A. (in philosophy) from Yeshiva College.
During the week, he learned in the Litvishe yeshiva way.On Shabbos and Yom Tov he absorbed the atmosphere of his parents' Polishe shteibel with a love of chassidus. For years, he was also a frequent visitor at the tishin of the Modzitzer Rebbe, Rav Shaul Yedidya Taub. In 1950, the young Reb Nachman married Shaindel Freund, his aiyshes chayil for 52 years. He found a position in the town of Danville, Virginia, a small Orthodox community which consisted of about 30 families. He held the position for 3 years.
From 1953-1954, Rabbi Bulman served as mashgiach in Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon. He was once again pulled to the world of rabbonus when he became rov in South Fallsburg, N.Y., in 1954. During this time, he founded the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY), together with Rabbis Weitman, Goodman, and Chait. His next position was as head of Adas Jeshurun synagogue in Newport News, Virginia, beginning in 1957. Rabbi Bulman then returned to his position as mashgiach in Yeshiva University from 1962-1963, and then worked for Torah Umesorah from 1963-1967. In 1967, he took his next rabbinical position as the rav of the Young Israel of Far Rockaway. During this time, he founded Sarah Schenirer High School and Seminary in 1968, and the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway (Yeshivas Derech Eison), and he taught in both places. (1925-2002).
*1925 — Born in N.Y.City to Polish, Gur-Chossidic immigrants, R’ Meir and Ettel Bulman, in their forties, as their only child together.This birth came in the wake of a profound plea to their Rebbeh for his blessing. They named the baby Nachman — “the comforter.”
*1931... — Begins public school; shortly thereafter his father makes the rare, bold move to transfer his son to the Yiddish speaking Jacob Joseph Yeshiva, which included an elementary school.Little Nachman needs to trek through hostile neighborhoods daily, but his love for authentic Jewish learning (and his parents’ undying support) drives him.
*1940... — Attends Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchonon (YeshivaUniversity) for high school; precociouslybegins to guide peers in classic texts of Jewish philosophy; stands out as a confident leader and beacon of moral courage; receives his Rabbinical ordination and a B.A. in philosophy there.
*1950-‘53 — Marries Shaindel Freund, who has the rare desire (for Americans) to marry only someone with deep love for Torah; accepts a position as community Rav in Danville, Virginia.Within a few short years, he turns around this small, backwater, modern Orthodox community to a genuine love for Torah.
*1953-‘54 — Serves as Moshgiach {spiritual supervisor} in his Alma Mater, Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon.
*1954-‘57 — Serves as Rav of South Fallsburg, N.Y.; helps found N.C.S.Y (Youth division of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations).His electrifying speeches become known as powerful inspiration for many a wavering adolescent.
*1957-‘62 — Serves as Rav in Newport News, Virginia; founds a new day school, synagogue and Mikveh there.Here too he becomes beloved for the warm intensity of his pro-Torah persuasion.
*1962-‘63 — Returns to YeshivaUniversity as a Moshgiach.
*1963-‘67 — Works for Torah u’Mesorah, directing their teacher training programs in Yeshivos; becomes a frequent keynote speaker at Agudas Yisrael and OU conventions; writes and reviews prolifically for the Jewish Observer, which he helped found; translates two of Eliahu Kitov’s classic books on practical and historical guides for Jewish Observance.
*1967-‘75 — Serves as the Rav of Young Israel of Far Rockaway; founds a girls’ school and seminary and Yeshiva there. Attracts a large following of b’nei Torah who avidly attend his Shabbos discourses.During this time he also becomes involved in wider Orthodox, political activity; stands out as the main speaker for a famous MadisonSquareGarden rally on behalf of Russian Jewry.
*1975-‘79 — After his second parent Passes on, he makes his long awaited aliya to Israel; works as a Moshgiach for “latecomers to Torah” in Yeshivas Ohr Sameach, Jerusalem; becomes widely acclaimed there for his dramatic expositions on Jewish Scriptures and philosophy.Off the record, he plays a vital role in thwarting a municipality plan to force secular entertainment into the midst of expanding Orthodox neighborhoods.He becomes highly respected among the Orthodox establishment, but refuses to enter formal politics.
*1979-’93 — Founds “Kiryat Nachliel,” in Migdal Ha’Emek, northern Israel.This community is inspired by his rare vision for building a normative, Torah-true community, which is geared towards the healthy acclamation of a wide spectrum of Torah Faithful, new immigrants into Israeli society.The big hope is that this community will develop self-sustaining mechanisms for education towards the Torah’s highest ideals – both for it’s own members and for reaching out to the wider community. The main population is comprised of English-speaking, “late-comers” to Torah; the context is the slums of an Israeli development town.
The Rav continues during this time to keep up his teaching in Ohr Sameach, commuting long hours each way, while he and the community teachers try, patiently, to expand their educational programs.They establish a respectable Kollel for well over a decade and cultivate a small yeshiva for Ba’alei-Tshuva.But the economic and political strains mount.The beginnings of a day school meet a similar fate.The Rav struggles to cobble together various sorts of charitable input, but eventually his health intervenes.With an ill and heavy heart, it takes only a few years until he and most all of the core community members dissipate.He returns to full time work with Ohr Sameach.
*1995-’2000 — Assists a group of mainly English-speaking immigrants to establish their own Shul and sub-community within the Orthodox townlet of Telz-Stone, near Jerusalem. They show interest in him becoming their Rav and thus he begins coming, for monthly Shabbos’s, attracting growing crowds for the davening and shiurim – first in living rooms, then in rented villas, eventually in a caravan-cum-Shul.
His health is progressively weakening, but he valiantly plugs along, for about two years, believing there will soon be enough people who are willing to invest in the kind of community he has always envisioned.But it never gets off the ground.All along, he struggles to maintain his numerous educational projects via Ohr Sameach.His health worsens.
*2000-2002 — Moves to the Neveh Ya’acov neighborhood of northeastern Jerusalem, near a son. He is adopted by this son’s Shul, which is attended largely by English speaking, new-immigrants.He becomes their ad hoc spiritual guide and counselor.He’s instrumental in stemming the tide of disaffected youths and starts a financial drive to found a new Shul, modeled after Kiryat Nachliel. But now his health plummets.On early Shabbos morning, the 26 of Tammuz, 5762 , July 2002, he ascends to theultimate “community” Above.
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