• Avraham Yoffen (or Jofen; 1887 - April 19, 1970), also known as "Avraham Pinsker" was a rabbi, son-in-law to Yosef Yozel Horowitz, the Alter of Novardok...
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  • the Yeshiva. The Alter succumbed to it. The Alter's son-in-law, Rabbi Avraham Yoffen, was the head of the Novardok yeshiva in Białystok, the biggest Yeshiva...
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  • unhindered from Communist interference. There, he studied under Rabbi Avraham Yoffen. In 1922 (1925), Kanievsky published his first sefer ("book"), Sha'arei...
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  • where he became a study partner of the son of the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Yoffen. After completing the entire Talmud for the second time at the age of...
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  • The name of the yeshiva, Derech Ayson, comes from the sefer by Rabbi Avraham Yoffen of Novardok. The yeshiva's principal from 1970 until his death was Rabbi...
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  • attracted leading rabbis such as Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov Lubchansky and Rabbi Avraham Yoffen as instructors, but was forced to disband with the outbreak of World...
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    law) and rosh yeshiva Shlomo Wolbe, mashgiach, Be'er Yaakov yeshiva Avraham Yoffen, rosh yeshiva of Beis Yosef Novardok Mordechai Leib Kaminetzky, Jerusalem...
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  • sons-in-law: Rabbi Alter Shmeulevitz, Rabbi Isroel Yankef Lubchanski and Rabbi Avraham Yoffen. Rabbi Shmuelevitz was a renowned scholar and was a follower of the...
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    Nekritz, daughter of Rav Yehuda Leib Nekritz, granddaughter of Rav Avraham Yoffen, and great-granddaughter of 'the Alter of Novardok', Rav Yosef Yozel...
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    Shmuelevitz sent some of the manuscripts to America with his uncle, Avraham Yoffen, with specific instructions that he carry them by hand and not put them...
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  • Hamodia. March 6, 2017. In 5691/1931, after Nitra lost its Rav, Harav Avraham Aharon Katz, zt"l, the community entreated Reb Shmuel Dovid to fill the...
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  • was a student of the Novardok Yeshiva. Before World War II, he Rabbi Avraham Yoffen were the rabbinical leaders of the Novardok Yeshiva branch in Białystok...
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