Yeshivas Etz Ḥayyim (Hebrew: ישיבת עץ חיים), commonly called the Volozhin Yeshiva (Yiddish: וואלאזשינער ישיבה, romanized: Volozhiner Yeshiva), was a prestigious...
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of the Vilna Gaon that Chaim founded the Volozhin yeshiva, then called Yeshivat Etz Chaim, in 1803 a yeshiva that remained in operation for almost 90...
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teacher, Volozhin gathered interested students and started a yeshiva in the town of Valozhyn, located in modern-day Belarus. The Volozhin yeshiva was closed...
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Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
known by the acronym Netziv, was an Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva (principal) of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in...
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the Volozhin Yeshiva. Yitzhak was born in 1780 in Volozhin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to rabbi Chaim Ickovits of Volozhin. As Rosh Yeshiva, his...
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Brisk tradition and Soloveitchik dynasty (redirect from Brisk yeshiva)
such as Simcha Rappaport and Chaim of Volozhin, famed Talmudist and founder of the Volozhin yeshiva. Chaim of Volozhin was a student of the Vilna Gaon. The...
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Refael Shapiro (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
Refael Shapiro (1837–1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russia, (now Valozhyn, Belarus), and a son-in-law...
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Chaim Soloveitchik (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
Soloveitchik was born in Volozhin on March 25, 1853, where his father, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik was a lecturer in the Volozhiner Yeshiva. The family moved...
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Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi) (category Volozhin rosh yeshivas)
considered a candidate for rosh yeshiva of Volozhin yeshiva, over Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin. During this time he would lead the Yeshiva alongside the Netziv. However...
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Mileikowsky was sent to the Volozhin yeshiva, where he spent eight years and was ordained. Already while Mileikowsky attended yeshiva he began to make speeches...
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Yechiel Michel Epstein (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
study. Soon after, Epstein left for the famed Volozhin yeshiva, where he studied for two years. In Volozhin, he met and started a lifelong friendship with...
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yeshiva dean of Mir Yeshiva Naftoli Trop, yeshiva dean of Radin Yeshiva Chaim Volozhin, yeshiva dean of Volozhin Yeshiva Yitzchak Volozhin, yeshiva dean...
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Shimon Shkop (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
age of twelve he went to study in the Mir Yeshiva for two years. He then traveled to the Volozhin yeshiva where he studied under Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin...
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Chaim of Volozhin began a sort of national-level yeshiva. In 1803, he founded the Volozhin Yeshiva and began to attract large number of students from...
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Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה, pl. Hebrew: ראשי ישיבה, roshei yeshiva, rashe yeshiva; Anglicized pl. rosh yeshivas) is the title given to the dean of...
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Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
Hayyim Bloch decided to leave Grobin and learn instead in the famed Volozhin Yeshiva under the illustrious Rabbi Hayyim Soloveitchik, the founder of the...
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5702, 27 November 1941 Tel Aviv) was a Rabbi, Hassid and student of Volozhin Yeshiva affiliated with the Mizrahi Movement. He was a unique rabbinical character...
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Mirrer Yeshiva was founded in 1815, 12 years after the founding of the Volozhin Yeshiva, by one of the prominent residents of a small town called Mir (then...
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Baruch Epstein (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
Epstein was a bookkeeper by profession, he had been a student at the Volozhin Yeshiva under his uncle Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (who became his brother-in-law...
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Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik (category Rosh yeshivas)
rosh yeshiva in the Volozhin yeshiva. Soloveitchik moved with his family the Jewish community of Brisk after the czarist government closed the Volozhin yeshiva...
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(1816–1893), (Netziv; Ha'emek Davar) rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva, son-in-law of Yitzhak of Volozhin Yehuda Bibas (1789–1852), Sephardic rabbi...
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Synagogues Yeshivas Baranovich Yeshiva Grodno Yeshiva Kaminetz Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva Radin Yeshiva Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva Tomchei...
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Moshe Mordechai Epstein (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
Bakst, had been affectionately referred to during his days in the Volozhin yeshiva as "the Bakst Genius". Moshe Mordechai's genius was detected from a...
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Abraham Isaac Kook (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
Zlata Perl.: p.56 He entered the Volozhin Yeshiva in 1884 at the age of 18, where he became close to the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin...
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Meir Bar-Ilan (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
famous Volozhin Yeshiva in Lithuania. Bar-Ilan was also a descendant of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, the Maharam of Padua. He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva...
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yeshiva. After his appointment, the yeshiva expanded and the conditions improved. In 1900 Rabbi Moshe Landynski, an alumnus of the Volozhin Yeshiva,...
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Hayim Nahman Bialik (category Volozhin Yeshiva alumni)
At the age of 15, he convinced his grandfather to send him to the Volozhin Yeshiva in Vilna Governorate to study under Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, where...
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these efforts, pioneered by Chaim of Volozhin and continued by his disciples, were the modern, independent yeshiva and the Musar movement. Since the late...
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until the 16th century. The first known rabbinical authority and head of a yeshiva was Isaac Bezaleel of Vladimir, Volhynia, who was already an old man when...
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