Avrohom Gurwicz is an

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-born

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and

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ic scholar. Since 1982 he has been the

rosh yeshivah Rosh yeshiva ( he, ראש ישיבה, pl. he, ראשי ישיבה, '; Anglicized pl. ''rosh yeshivas'') is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primar ...

Gateshead Talmudical College Gateshead Talmudical College ( he, ישיבת בית יוסף גייטסהעד), popularly known as Gateshead Yeshiva, is located in the Bensham area of Gateshead in North East England. It is the largest yeshiva in Europe and considered to be o ...

, a

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in Gateshead,

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, where he has been giving the largest ''

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'' (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 taugh ...

, the previous Gateshead rosh yeshivah. He is the grandson of Rabbi

Elyah Lopian Eliyahu Lopian (1876 – 21 September 1970), known as Reb Elyah, was a leading rabbi of the Musar movement, Mussar Movement. As a disciple of the Kelm Talmud Torah method, he was known for his strictness with respect to order and self-control. B ...

and son-in-law of Reb Elyah's son, Rabbi Leib Lopian. Through his father's mother, he is a descendant of the Vilna Gaon. 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, head of the Heichal Hatorah beTzion yeshiva in

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. 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

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. *''Ve'anafeha Arzei El'' on the

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and

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s; 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

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