• A mashgiach ruchani (Hebrew: משגיח רוחני; pl., mashgichim ruchani'im), sometimes mashgiach for short, is a spiritual supervisor or guide. They are usually...
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  • the yeshiva is usually covered by a different personality, known as the mashgiach or spiritual supervisor. This concept, introduced by the Mussar movement...
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  • Yechezkel Levenstein (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    as Reb Chatzkel, (1885 – 18 Adar (11 or 12 March) 1974), was the mashgiach ruchani of the Mir Yeshiva, in Mir, Belarus and during the yeshiva's escape...
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  • Moshe Rosenstain (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    Ashkenazi rabbi in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. He served as mashgiach ruchani in the Lomza Yeshiva in Poland. Rabbi Rosenstain was born in Uzvent...
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    Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, New York, and former Mashpia/mashgiach ruchani at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). He has recorded...
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  • New York. It was founded in 1967 by Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld, former mashgiach ruchani ("dean of students") at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. The yeshiva was...
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    yeshiva passed to his son-in-law Shlomo Halioua. The position of mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) has been held by (among others) Avigdor Miller...
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  • Matisyahu Salomon (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    American rabbi, author and public speaker.[dead link] He served as the mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) of Beth Medrash Govoha, one of the world's...
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  • Shanghai) was the yeshiva's first mashgiach ruchani until his death on December 16, 1972. Besides his role as Mashgiach, he also served as a Maggid Shiur...
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  • attracted to observant Judaism within Orthodoxy. Rabbi Yosef Blau the mashgiach ruchani of Yeshiva University has noted: A baal teshuva movement has emerged...
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  • the Knesset Yisrael neighborhood, posek of Bikur Holim Hospital, mashgiach ruchani of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva Léon Ashkenazi (1922–1996), educator,...
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  • Lindenbaum in Jerusalem. Blau is the son of Rabbi Yosef Blau, senior mashgiach ruchani at Yeshiva University, and grandson of Rabbi Mordechai Pinchas Teitz...
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  • Zalman Dolinsky (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Lithuania and White Russia. He served as the mashgiach ruchani of the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus. Shlomo Zalman Dolinsky was born in...
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    Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), mashgiach ruchani, author of the Michtav me-Eliyahu Yechezkel Levenstein (1895–1974), mashgiach ruchani, author of Or Yechezkel...
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  • Dov Tzvi Heller (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    commonly called by his Yiddish name, Ber Hirsch Heller, was a rabbi and mashgiach ruchani at the Slabodka Yeshiva in Europe, as well as the father-in-law of...
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    Slabodka), who had also founded several kollelim in the area, served as mashgiach ruchani and introduced Musar ideals there. In 1882, Nosson Tzvi Finkel combined...
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    Avigdor Miller (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    author, and lecturer. He served simultaneously as a communal rabbi, mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, and as a teacher...
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    Yeruchom Levovitz (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    also known by his hundreds of students simply as The Mashgiach, was a famous mashgiach ruchani and baal mussar (Jewish Ethics) at the Mir Yeshiva in...
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  • German-born American Haredi rabbi and scholar. Carlebach was appointed mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin by its rosh...
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    Hutner appointed Slabodka yeshiva educated Avigdor Miller as the mashgiach ruchani (spiritual mentor and supervisor) of the yeshiva. After the yeshiva...
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    Nosson Meir Wachtfogel (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    Lakewood, New Jersey, USA), known as the Lakewood Mashgiach, was an Orthodox rabbi and long-time mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) of Beth Medrash Govoha...
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  • Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    Jewish philosopher of the 20th century. He is best known for being the mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual counselor") of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Israel and through...
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  • Yehudah Jacobs (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    Rabbi Yehudah Jacobs (c. 1935 – April 27, 2020) was a mashgiach ruchani in Beth Medrash Govoha, the largest yeshiva located outside of Israel and the...
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  • title has a different meaning in Reform Judaism. Gabbai Kohen Mashgiach Mashgiach ruchani Mashpia Melamed Meshulach Mohel Cantorate This position had a...
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  • Shlomo Harkavy (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    Grodner, was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Grodno, Poland. He served as mashgiach ruchani of the Grodno Yeshiva under Shimon Shkop, until he was murdered the...
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  • the] yeshiva"), Rosh HaYeshiva ("head [of] the yeshiva"), "Mashgiach" (for Mashgiach ruchani) ("spiritual supervisor/guide"), Mora DeAsra ("teacher/decisor"...
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    Zev Finkel, was a mashgiach ruchani (spiritual guidance counselor) of the yeshiva. Her brother-in-law, Aaron Chodosh, was a mashgiach there, and her brother...
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  • and became a disciple of Rabbi Chatzkel Levenstein, the yeshiva's mashgiach ruchani. In the 1950s he moved to Israel. Much of Shlomo's writing was about...
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  • Moshe Yitzchak Segal, later Rosh Yeshiva in Manchester, served as mashgiach ruchani. During World War I, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was associated with...
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  • Elyah Lopian (category Mashgiach ruchani)
    Etz Chaim Yeshiva and immigrated to Israel where he taught and was Mashgiach Ruchani at the Knesses Chizkiyahu yeshiva located in Zikhron Ya'akov (and...
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