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    Moshe Mordechai Epstein (7 March 1866–28 November 1933) was rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is recognized as having...
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    in Palestine and Europe, Kook travelled to America with Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein of the Slabodka Yeshiva and the Rabbi of Kaunas, Avraham Dov Baer...
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    "Alter", Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, receiving semicha from the latter in 1926. During World War I...
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  • Michael Epstein, American religious scholar Mendel Epstein, American rabbi and kidnapper, also known as "The Prodfather" Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933)...
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    (Belarus) and Jerusalem Shlomo Elyashiv, Lithuanian kabbalist Moshe Mordechai Epstein, rosh yeshivas Slabodka, Lithuania Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Alter...
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  • Hebron in Mandatory Palestine, including the rosh yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein. Rabbi Sher was then appointed rosh yeshiva while Rabbi Ber Hersh...
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    departure, Rabbi Finkel appointed two brothers-in-law, Rabbis Moshe Mordechai Epstein and Isser Zalman Meltzer as rosh yeshivas. Rabbi Meltzer left three...
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  • Bloch Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein Rabbi Moshe Feinstein Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel Rabbi Chaim Flom Rabbi Mordechai Gifter Rabbi...
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    Pesach Frank, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, and Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Unpublished letters include communications between him and Moshe Soloveitchik and...
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  • Dushinsky Baruch Epstein (1860–1941), (Torah Temimah), Lithuanian Torah commentator Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933), (Levush Mordechai), Talmudist and...
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    the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania under Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and Moshe Mordechai Epstein. Kotler joined his father-in-law, Isser Zalman Meltzer, in running...
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  • Pithchei Teshuvah) Baruch Epstein (Torah Temimah) (1860–1941), Lithuanian Torah commentator Moshe Mordechai Epstein (Levush Mordechai) (1866–1933), Talmudist...
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    moved to Hebron to lead the yeshiva there together with Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein. Hebron was chosen over Jerusalem to avoid the influence of the...
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    Kremenchuk. Two years later, he married Pesha Miriam Epstein, the daughter of Moshe Mordechai Epstein, one of the yeshiva heads. Shortly after World War...
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    his yeshiva in the Land of Israel, together with the dean Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, setting it up in Hebron and sending waves of hand-picked students...
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    in 1911. Epstein was born in Bakst, Lithuania and trained in yeshiva at Slabodka yeshiva, where his brother, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein served as...
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  • Yisrael, known as the Slabodka yeshiva, and studied under Rabbis Moshe Mordechai Epstein and Nosson Tzvi Finkel. In 1919, Rabbi Grozovsky married the daughter...
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    known as the "Alter of Slabodka", and Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, known by his pen name, "Levush Mordechai". Avraham Elya studied in Slabodka for seven...
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    Hovevei Zion movement. Together with his brother-in-law, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, he contributed to the founding of the city of Hadera by buying...
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  • conceding that he had "been with [Epstein] on matters", Tendler nevertheless considered him "unreliable". Mordechai Willig, a leader of the Beth Din of...
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    Admor of Sokolov, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Elazar Leiner the Admor of Radzin, Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzky, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rabbi Meir Shapira of...
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    consultations between Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Yechezkel Sarna and Moshe Mordechai Epstein. and by 1929 had attracted some 265 students from Europe and the...
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    Reb Moshe: The Life and Ideals of HaGaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Brooklyn, NY: ArtScroll Mesorah, 1986. ISBN 0-89906-480-9. Halperin, Mordechai (2006)...
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  • leaders and rabbis of his time, including the Alter of Slabodka, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Isaac Sher and Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro (author of Devar Avraham)...
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  • received his semikhah (rabbinic ordination) from the academy's dean, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, on October 22, 1933. Bergman married Anne (née Weiss) in 1937...
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  • and in his youth he studied at the Slabodka yeshiva under Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein. He emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1903. They settled...
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    later moving to the Hebron Yeshiva, where he studied under Rabbis Moshe Mordechai Epstein and Yechezkel Sarna. After his marriage, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook...
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  • Moshe Kiselev (1937–1949) Simon Federbusch (1931–1940) Elieser Berlinger [nl] (1946–1951) Mika Weiss (1957–1961) Shmuel Beeri (1961–1963) Mordechai Lanxner...
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  • Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the "Alter of Slabodka'") and Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein. In 1897, when the Alter sent fourteen of the yeshiva's elite students...
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    were involved in this dispute, including Rabbis Abraham Kook, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Avrohom Dov Ber Kahana, Joseph Rosen (the Rogotchaver Gaon), Moses...
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