Shmuel-Leib Yankelevich Levin (born 1890, date of death unknown) was the
chief rabbi
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of
Moscow
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for a brief period in 1943. He was known among Chabad hasidim as Shmuel Leib Paritcher, for his birthplace of Paritch, Belarus, where he was born in 1890. He is an alumnus of the original
Yeshiva
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of
Tomchei Temimim
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in
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* Lyubavichi, Monastyrshchinsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Lyubavichskoye Rural Settlement of Monastyrshchinsky District in Smolensk Oblast
*Lyub ...
, and later served as
mashgiach
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in various branches of the yeshiva.
Chief rabbis of Russia
Russian Hasidic rabbis
Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis
1890 births
Year of death missing
Rabbis from Moscow
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