Osher Weiss

Rav Asher is well known as the author of the Minchas Osher seforim on Moadim, Torah, medicine and responsa. In 2021 he published a volume of the Minchat Asher responsa, which deals with the issues raised by the coronavirus in Israel and its halakhic implications. He is a well known posek, and is well known in Haredi circles for having traveled to the United States with Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman and Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, the Gerrer Rebbe. He also frequently gives classes at American yeshivot in Israel.

Rabbi Weiss was married to Rebbetzin Pesiah Zalmanowitz, the daughter of Rabbi Yisrael Aryeh Zalmanowitz, and together, they had 6 children. Rebbetzin Pesiah died in 2018.

Rav Asher was born in the United States to Moshe Weiss, a Holocaust survivor and real estate agent. He studied at Sanz institutions in the United States. In 1956 the family immigrated to Israel on Aliyah and lived in Kiryat Sanz in Netanya. He studied at institutions there and was close to the Admor Rav Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam. In 2005, he founded Yeshivat Darchei Torah and has headed it ever since. In its early years, Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky, head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, also served alongside him.

Osher (Usher, Asher) Zelig Weiss (Hebrew: אשר וייס; born March 25, 1953) is a posek, the current rosh kollel of Machon Minchas Osher L’Torah V’Horaah and author of the Minchas Osher. He grew up in a Klausenberger family in Borough Park, Brooklyn.