Moshe Weinberger

In around 2019, Rabbi Weinberger slowly started shifting out of his role at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) to focus on opening up a kollel ("Emek Hamelech") for training people interested in rabbinical positions which focused on a combination of intense study of halacha as well as a serious focus on penimius hatorah and chassidus, which, due to a variety of factors never came to fruition.

On October 27, 2018 as religious prayer services were underway in the conservative Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a lone gunman entered the synagogue and began indiscriminately shooting a semi-automatic rifle killing 11 worshippers and injuring 7. The attack was clearly recognized as of anti-semitic nature as shown from his social media posts before the attack and statements to the police after his arrest. In the aftermath, many leaders of the free world issued statements condemning the attacks, with the former United States President Donald J. Trump describing it as "pure evil". Many communities, cities, and sports events held vigils, memorial ceremonies and moments of silence in respect to the victims who were killed.

In 2013 Rabbi Weinberger was appointed mashgiach ruchani at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), where he presented weekly classes in Chasidic thought and philosophy, conducted a monthly farbrengen (joyful gathering), and used to spend Shabbos on campus several times a year.

Since 2011, he has produced four volumes of English translation and commentary on the Hebrew sefer Oros HaTeshuva by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchok HaKohen Kook, published under the title Song of Teshuva. In 2015 a collection of his Torah discourses at the annual hillula of the Piaseczna Rav at Congregation Aish Kodesh was published under the title Warmed by the Fire of the Aish Kodesh. Since then, he has also published a collection of his weekly derashos (sermons) under the title Sparks from the Fire.

In December 1992 Rabbi Weinberger became the first rabbi of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, New York. He named the shul after Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Piaseczna Rav and author of the chasidic work arranged based on the parsha,Aish Kodesh, who was a leading Polish Chasidic rabbi in prewar Europe.

In the 1980s and 1990s Rabbi Weinberger wrote articles on issues pertaining to Orthodox practice and baalei teshuva. He was a frequent contributor to Jewish Action, published by the Orthodox Union, and the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society, published by the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School. In 1990 he authored the book Jewish Outreach: Halakhic Perspectives, on halakhic issues pertaining to Orthodox Jewish outreach.

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger (born June 1, 1957) is an American Chasidic rabbi, outreach educator, author, translator, and speaker. He is the founding rav of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, New York, and former Mashpia/mashgiach ruchani at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). To date, he has recorded more than 5000 lectures on chasidic thought and philosophy as well as halacha and a variety of other topics in Judaism.

Moshe Weinberger grew up in a Modern Orthodox home in Queens, New York. His father, Mordechai Aryeh Yosef Weinberger (March 24, 1923 - February 10, 2020), and his mother, were both Holocaust survivors from Munkacs and Ungvar who went through the Nazi concentration camps, and his grandparents were Belzer Hasidim. He began studying Chasidic works after his Bar Mitzvah.