The Collegian
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik

Chabad Rabbi Named One of CSU’s 6 Best Teachers

Donning a long beard and a kippa on the crown of his head, Colorado State University’s Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik is not the type of philosophy teacher one would expect to walk into a classroom, joking with students in a thick Australian accent.

For the past nine years, Gorelik has succeeded in making CSU students laugh, yet also contemplate their beliefs. He was named one of the six best CSU teachers for the 2013-2014 school year by the Colorado State University Alumni Association.

“Being Jewish, especially a rabbi, doesn’t mean you have to be outdated or archaic, but you can be with it,” Gorelik said. “I felt honored that they nominated me as best teacher.”

An Australian native, Gorelik, his wife and their five children now live in Fort Collins, where he serves the Jewish community throughout the city and the University.

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3 Comments

  • Filasof

    “He asked us stuff like, ‘Is there a god? How do we know there is a god?’” This is what confounds people in the big Colorado University? Any five-year-old can tell you, we KNOW there’s a G-d because the 1st posuk in torah says, ‘Bireshis boro ELOKIM.’ Since the torah is emes we know there is an elokim that was bore olam. End of story. What else is bothering these Chachomim?

    • Milhouse

      How do you know the Torah is emes? If you haven’t been brought up with it, and especially if you have no father to ask or elders to tell you (שאל אביך ויגדך זקניך ויאמר לך), how can you possibly know that it’s true? You have to start at the other end, with the יסוד היסודות ועמוד החכמות, and work your way from there to establishing the Torah’s truth.