More about me

Brief Biography

My name is Mordechai Wollenberg.

I grew up in Oxford, England.

I attended Carmel College, a Jewish high school in the Oxfordshire countryside.

After High School, I attended Machon Meir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

I then spent three years doing a Computer Science degree at Birmingham University, UK, where I became more involved with Chabad-Lubavitch.

I then studies for five years, at Yeshiva Hadar Hatorah (see www.hadarhatorah.org) a Baal Teshuva Yeshiva in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York.  I then studied for Semicha (Rabbinical ordination) in the Lubavitcher Kollel (married men's division) in Crown Heights, receiving my ordination from Rabbi Yeruslavsky, of Eretz Yisrael, in 2003.

I am married to Blima nee Wolfe, from Phoenix, Arizona.  We have one son, Eli, who was born in January '04.

We are now living in Cardiff, Wales, UK where we are Rabbi and Rebbetzen of the Cardiff United Synagogue.

My other interests include music (I took piano lessons for many years), computing (I have designed several other sites including the Hadar Hatorah site and www.solihullshul.org, www.psuchabad.org, www.obentzion.com) and foreign travel (I have travelled throughout Europe and many times to Israel.)

When a very dear friend of mine, Barny Nemko, commented that as somebody studying in Yeshiva, I ought to be able to come up with some kind of a weekly Dvar Torah, I took up the challenge.

This is the result!