Rabbi’s Corner
About Our Rabbi
Rabbi Yehoshua Felberg was born and brought up in South London, England.
After learning at Yeshivat HaMivtar and Mayanot in Israel, he went on to read Theology at the University of Oxford and undertook further study in ancient languages at Princeton (with a focus on classical Greek and Hebrew). His dissertation was on the hermeneutics of enhanced messianic messaging in the Septuagint.
Yehoshua then returned to Yeshiva in Israel with a focus on high level study of Talmud at Shapell’s/Darche Noam. While there he formed a close bond with the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky שליט”א and Mashgiach Ruchani Rabbi Fyvel Shuster שליט”א.
After meeting his wife to be, Sophie, the couple returned to the UK to get married.
After getting married Yehoshua studied at the rabbinical kollel in Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in London under Dayan Abraham David שליט”א. He also worked for the Sephardi Beit Din teaching those undergoing geirut and as a mashgiach kashrut for the SKA and KLBD. While in London, Yehoshua also studied for his LLM and qualified as a lawyer in England and Wales.
On making Aliyah in 2016, Yehoshua obtained semicha first from Rav Chaim Brovender שליט”א and Rabbi Dovid Fink שליט”א, and then as part of the Mizrachi Musmachim program studying with Rabbi Binyamin Zimmerman שליט”א and Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon שליט”א .
In 2020, Sophie and Yehoshua moved to Harish. With the coalescence of the anglo community through learning programs, a full community shul serving the needs of the English speaking population, Kehillat Derech Eretz, was born.
In addition to his role as the Rabbi of Kehillat Derech Eretz, Yehoshua teaches at Midreshet Torat Chesed in Netanya (a gap year seminary program for girls from chutz l’aretz learning for a year in Israel), and is part of the teaching team in the Mizrachi Musmachim program where he once studied. Outside of his role as a rabbi, Yehoshua continues to practice law as an attorney at a leading law firm based in Tel Aviv.
Sophie and Yehoshua are blessed with three beautiful children, Tikva, Raphael and Yishai.
Hilchot Chanukah
“וּמִנּוֹתַר קַנְקַנִּים נַעֲשָׂה נֵס לַשּׁוֹשַׁנִּים בְּנֵי בִינָה יְמֵי שְׁמוֹנָה קָבְעוּ שִׁיר וּרְנָנִים”🍩🍩🍩🔥🔥🔥 “But from the last remaining flask a miracle was done for the Jews. Therefore the sages of the day ordained these eight for songs of praise.” 🍩🍩🍩🔥🔥🔥...
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