Avrohom Gurwicz is an
English-born
Orthodox rabbi
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and
Talmudic scholar. Since 1982 he has been the
rosh yeshivah of
Gateshead Talmudical College, a
yeshiva in
Gateshead
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,
England, where he has been giving the largest ''
shiur'' (Torah lecture) in Europe with approximately 250 students attending, for approximately half a century.
Biography
Rabbi Gurwicz is the second son of Rabbi
Leib Gurwicz
Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz (1906–20 October 1982) was an influential Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he ta ...
, the previous Gateshead rosh yeshivah. He is the grandson of Rabbi
Elyah Lopian and son-in-law of Reb Elyah's son, Rabbi
Leib Lopian
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.
Through his father's mother, he is a descendant of the
Vilna Gaon
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, ( he , ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן ''Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman'') known as the Vilna Gaon (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון ''Der Vilner Gaon'', pl, Gaon z Wilna, lt, Vilniaus Gaonas) or Elijah of ...
.
Rabbi Gurwicz married the daughter of his uncle, Rabbi Leib Lopian, and his wife, Tzipa. He is a brother-in-law (through his sister Sarah) and cousin to Rabbi
Zvi Kushelevsky Zvi ( he, צְבִי and , ''Tzvi'', Ṣvi, "gazelle") is a Jewish masculine given name. Notable people with this name include:
* Zvi Aharoni (1921–2012), Israeli Mossad agent
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, head of the
Heichal Hatorah beTzion yeshiva in
Jerusalem.
Among his sons-in-law is Rabbi
Nissan Kaplan, a former ''maggid shiur'' in the
Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Works
*''Anfei Erez'', 4 volumes on various ''sugyas'' (topics) in
Shas.
*''Ve'anafeha Arzei El'' on the
Torah and
Jewish holidays; he has also published for his students his lectures in note form on various tractates (Leket Ha'aros).
* ''Leket Hearos, ''notes from the shiurim he has given.
References
English Orthodox rabbis
British people of Polish-Jewish descent
British people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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