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Yerucham Levovitz
Rav Yeruchom Levovitz ( he, ירוחם ליוואוויץ; ca. 1875-1936), also known by his hundreds of students simply as The Mashgiach, was a famous mashgiach ruchani and baal mussar (Jewish Ethics) at the Mir yeshiva in Belarus. Early life Maran Yeruchom Levovitz was born in 1875 (5635 in the Jewish calendar) in Lyuban, Minsk Voblast, Belarus (near Slutsk) to Avraham and Chasya Levovitz. He received his education in the yeshivas of Slobodka and Kelm. He was a disciple of Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and Rav Simcha Zissel Ziv of Kelm. Mir Yeshiva R' Yeruchom was the spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus until his death in 1936. His disciples were said to have followed his every word, never doing anything that they "felt" he would not want them to do. Most of the leaders of the yeshivas of inter-war Poland were Levovits's disciples. They would come on occasion to visit him and seek his advice. After World War II, much of orthodox Jewry in Europe was wiped out, alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeruchom Levovitz
Rav Yeruchom Levovitz ( he, ירוחם ליוואוויץ; ca. 1875-1936), also known by his hundreds of students simply as The Mashgiach, was a famous mashgiach ruchani and baal mussar (Jewish Ethics) at the Mir yeshiva in Belarus. Early life Maran Yeruchom Levovitz was born in 1875 (5635 in the Jewish calendar) in Lyuban, Minsk Voblast, Belarus (near Slutsk) to Avraham and Chasya Levovitz. He received his education in the yeshivas of Slobodka and Kelm. He was a disciple of Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and Rav Simcha Zissel Ziv of Kelm. Mir Yeshiva R' Yeruchom was the spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus until his death in 1936. His disciples were said to have followed his every word, never doing anything that they "felt" he would not want them to do. Most of the leaders of the yeshivas of inter-war Poland were Levovits's disciples. They would come on occasion to visit him and seek his advice. After World War II, much of orthodox Jewry in Europe was wiped out, alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz
HaRav Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz (1908–2001) was a Lithuanian-born American rabbi and founder of the first Mesivta (Jewish High School) in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and a teacher of thousands of students. Biography He was born in 1908 in Ozovnet, Lithuania. His father, Musar movement leader Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz, was the spiritual leader of Yeshivas Mir. Levovitz studied in the yeshivas of Grodno, Telz and Brisk. At the start of World War II he fled to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, New York where he married the daughter of Naftali Carlebach, Chief Rabbi of Berlin, Germany. After WWII, Carlebach established the Kehilath Jacob synagogue on the Upper West Side, New York City. After his marriage he founded the first yeshiva high school in Boro Park. He also published the writings of his father, Yeruchom Levovitz, and of the rabbi after whom he was named, Simcha Zissel Ziv Simcha Zissel Ziv Broida ( he, שמחה זיסל זיו; 1824–1898), also known as Simha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyomin Zeilberger
Rabbi Binyamin Zeilberger (sometimes pronounced ''Tzahlberger''; he, רב בנימין צלברגר/ציילברגר) was the rosh yeshiva of Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in the second half of the twentieth century. He was an alumnus of the Mir Yeshiva in Europe. Early life Zeilberger was born in Koenigshaufen, Germany on March 14, 1921, to Yehuda (Julius) and Chana (Johanna) Zeilberger. In 1935 he enrolled in the Mir Yeshiva in what is now Belarus, where he shared a room in a boarding house with Aryeh Leib Malin, Yonah Minsker, and Michel Feinstein. When World War II broke out in 1939 the Mir Yeshiva (and many other yeshivas in Poland) fled to Lithuania. Zeilberger remained with the yeshiva when it moved to Japan in 1941, then to Shanghai, and then in 1947 to the United States where it was reëstablished in Brooklyn. Zeilberger married Sara Rochel Kaplan. Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College Zeilberger soon joined the Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in Bensonhu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Wysoker
The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''. Hebrew etymology Chayyim ( he, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ), also transcribed ''Haim, Hayim, Chayim'', or ''Chaim'' (English pronunciations: , , ), is a Hebrew name meaning "life". Its first usage can be traced to the Middle Ages. It is a popular name among Jewish people. The feminine form for this name is Chaya ( he, חַיָּה ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ; English pronunciations: , ). '' Chai'' is the Hebrew word for "alive". According to Kabbalah, the name Hayim helps the person to remain healthy, and people were known to add Hayim as their second name to improve their health. In the United States, Chaim is a common spelling; however, since the phonemic pattern is unusual for English words, Hayim is often used as an alternative spelling. The "ch" spelling comes from transliteration of the Hebrew let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aryeh Leib Bakst
Aryeh ( fa, اريه) is a village in Firuzeh Rural District, in the Central District of Firuzeh County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 221, in 54 families. See also * List of cities, towns and villages in Razavi Khorasan Province A list of cities, towns and villages in Razavi Khorasan Province of north-eastern Iran: Alphabetical Cities are in bold text; all others are villages. A Ab Barg , Ab Barik , Ab Barik-e Bala , Ab Barik-e Olya , Ab Barik-e Sofla , Ab G ... References Populated places in Firuzeh County {{Firuzeh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shlomo Wolbe
Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe (August Wilhelm, 1914 - April 25, 2005) was a Haredi rabbi born in Berlin in the early part of the twentieth century. He is best known as the author of ''Alei Shur'' ( he, עלי שור), a musar classic discussing dimensional growth as it pertains to students of the Talmud. He died in Jerusalem in 2005. Life and teaching positions Shlomo Wolbe (August Wilhelm) was born in Berlin to Eugen and Rosa Wolbe. He was raised in a secular Jewish home and received his education at the University of Berlin (1930–1933). During his university studies he became a baal teshuva through the efforts of the Orthodox Students Union V.A.D. (''Vereinigung jüdischer Akademiker in Deutschland''). After university he attended the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary and Rabbi Joseph Breuer's yeshiva in Frankfurt. He continued to study at Rabbi Boczko's yeshiva in Montreux, Switzerland. He then attended the Mir yeshiva in Poland, where he became a student of the ''mashgiach ruchani'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimon Schwab
Shimon (Simon) Schwab (December 30, 1908 – February 13, 1995) was an Orthodox rabbi and communal leader in Germany and the United States. Educated in Frankfurt am Main and in the ''yeshivot'' of Lithuania, he was rabbi in Ichenhausen, Bavaria, after immigration to the United States in Baltimore, and from 1958 until his death at Khal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights, Manhattan. He was an ideologue of Agudath Israel of America, specifically defending the ''Torah im Derech Eretz'' approach to Jewish life. He wrote several popular works of Jewish thought. Early life in Frankfurt Shimon Schwab was born and grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His family had been longstanding members of the ''Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft'' (''IRG''), the Orthodox Jewish community that had established its own independence from the Reform Judaism-dominated general community. The ''IRG'' had been led until 1888 by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and was then under the leadership of Rabbi Solomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelik Epstein
Zelik Epstein, also known as Zelig Epstein (full name Aharon Zelig Epstein) (July 10, 1914 – August 3, 2009), was a prominent Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno, a private Talmudical institution in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, containing a high school, Beis Midrash, and Kollel. Epstein was considered by many to be the last of the Gedolim of his generation. Biography Rabbi Epstein was born in Slonim, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, on July 10, 1912. He studied in Mir, and escaped with the yeshiva to Shanghai during World War II. After the war, he and other refugees traveled to Canada, and en route to Montreal, stopped in Toronto, where he met Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, then a rabbi in Toronto. Rabbi Kamenetsky was impressed by him and later called him back to Toronto where he was given a teaching position in the Talmud Torah and yeshiva. When Rabbi Kamenetsky moved to New York and was appointed ''rosh yeshiva'' of Yeshiva To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Berman
Abba Mordechai Berman (1919–2005) was a Talmudist and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Iyun HaTalmud. Early life Abba Berman was born on Tu BiShvat 5679 (1919) in Łódź, Poland to Shaul Yosef Berman, rosh yeshiva of Toras Chesed in Lodz and a student of the Chofetz Chayim."Gedolim Yahrtzeits" ''Chinuch.org'' As a young child, Berman's greatness was recognized by the Chofetz Chaim. The Berman family were descendants of Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz. Following his Bar Mitzvah, Berman learned in Yeshivas Mir where he became close to the '' |
Aryeh Leib Malin
Aryeh Leib Malin (1906–1962) was a Polish-born American Haredi Jewish rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Mussarist who taught the Torah and spread rabbinical education in Europe, China, Japan, and the United States. Early life and education Aryeh Leib Malin was born in Mileitzitz near Białystok, in Poland. His father, Rabbi Avraham Moshe, served as a '' dayan'' (rabbinical court judge) in Mileitzitz. In his early years, Malin learned in Grodno under Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Later he learned under Rabbis Elchonon Wasserman and Baruch Ber Lebowitz. As an older student, he was educated in the Mir Yeshiva of Belarus, where he gained a reputation as a prototype-follower of ''lomdus'' (in-depth study) and a model of '' mussar''. In the study of ''mussar'' methodology and literature, Malin became a prominent student of Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz, and he edited the second volume of Rabbi Levovitz's book ''Daas Chochma U'Mussar''. Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein, a son-in-law of Rabbi Yi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isser Yehuda Malin
Isser may refer to: * Isser (name), a given name and surname (including a list of people with the name) * Isser District, a district in Boumerdès Province, Algeria ** Issers, a town and municipality in that district **Isser River The Oued Isser is a river of Algeria. It begins in Médéa Province, is the main river, with Oued Sébaou of the Medea, which runs through the Lower Kabylie of Djurdjura (or the current province of Boumerdès) Wilaya of Bouira, then flows into ..., a river flowing through the district See also * Iser (other) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
