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    54.910623; 23.886702 Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Yiddish: סלאבאדקער ישיבה; Lithuanian: Vilijampolės (Slabados) ješiva) was a yeshiva located in the town...
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  • a branch of the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka), the original Slabodka yeshiva, located in Slabodka (Vilijampolė), Lithuania...
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    Waldenberg 1929 Hebron massacre Kovno Kollel Slabodka yeshiva (Bnei Brak) Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) See Toras Avraham page 13 Toras Avraham page...
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    Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva, founded in Slabodka on the outskirts of Kaunas, Lithuania (then ruled by the Russian Empire)...
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    Dovid Leibowitz (category Slabodka yeshiva alumni)
    disciple of Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, he went on to found Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim in the United States, where he served as rosh yeshiva (dean). As...
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    Avigdor Miller (category Slabodka yeshiva alumni)
    in the yeshivas there. Miller met Isaac Sher, the son-in-law of Nosson Tzvi Finkel, who was in New York collecting funds for the Slabodka yeshiva at the...
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  • Mashgiach ruchani (category Yeshiva stubs)
    Finkel (1849-1927) known as the Alter (elder) of the Slabodka yeshiva, Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka), in Lithuania. The role of the mashgiach ruchani...
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    (plural of yeshiva gedola) usually learn in yeshiva until they get married. Historically, yeshivas were for men only. Today, all non-Orthodox yeshivas are open...
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    yeshiva Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt Meir Kessler Dov Landau, Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka Yisrael Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel Yoel Schwartz Avrohom Yitzchok...
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    "Vilijampolė". Historically, it was the home of the Slabodka yeshiva, or Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael, and the main site of the Kaunas Ghetto. The Lithuanian...
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  • Yitzchak Isaac Sher (category Academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva)
    his yeshiva in Slabodka, Yeshiva Knesses Yisrael, where he studied with Avraham Grodzinski (later a mashgiach ruchani in the yeshiva). In 1903, Rabbi...
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  • Knesseth Israel Congregation (Birmingham, Alabama) Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) Knesset Yisrael, a historical courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem...
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    Salanter's eldest disciple, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, directed yeshivas in Kelme and Grobin. These yeshivas broke with established models of yeshivot in a number...
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    yeshiva, and a rabbi in Kelm, with a short stint in Slabodka (a suburb of Kaunas/Kovno). The yeshiva eventually became one of the largest in Imperial Russia...
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    Finkel (the Alter of Slabodka), a student of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, establishes a musar-oriented Yeshiva Knesses Yisrael in Slabodka (Vilijampolė). 1896...
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  • Reuven Katz (category Slabodka yeshiva alumni)
    left the Radin Yeshiva and enrolled in Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael Slabodka, the yeshiva of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the "Alter of Slabodka'") and Rabbi Moshe...
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  • The Kelm Talmud Torah was a famous yeshiva in pre-holocaust Kelmė, Lithuania. Unlike other yeshivas, the Talmud Torah focused primarily on the study of...
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    Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was a kollel located in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was founded in 1877 by Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter when he...
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  • Uprising Vilna Gaon Groups Synagogues Yeshivas Kelm Talmud Torah Knesses Beis Yitzchak Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) Ponevezh Rameiles Telshe Tomchei Tmimim...
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  • Eliezer Palchinsky (category Rosh yeshivas)
    mitzvah. During his teens, he learned for three years at Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania. During this period, Rabbi Meir Simcha (the Ohr...
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    Elazar Shach (category Ponevezh Rosh yeshivas)
    at the Ponevezh Yeshiva which was then headed by Isaac Jacob Rabinowitz. In 1913 he enrolled at Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in Slabodka. When World War I...
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  • Dov Tzvi Heller (category Academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva)
    Gisseh Heller. In 1890, he became the mashgiach ruchani in the Yeshiva Knesses Yisrael Slabodka under Nosson Tzvi Finkel, where he was known for his sweet...
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  • Refael Reuvain Grozovsky (category Slabodka yeshiva alumni)
    leading dayan (Halachic judge) of Minsk. He attended Yeshiva Knesses Yisrael, known as the Slabodka yeshiva, and studied under Rabbis Moshe Mordechai Epstein...
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  • German word Hirsch "deer".: 138  Ferber studied in the prestigious Slabodka yeshiva, as well as under such Talmudic and Mussar giants as Yitzchak Elchanan...
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    Yeshivas Kelm Talmud Torah Ponevezh Yeshiva Rameiles Yeshiva Telshe Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim − Lubavitch Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak Yeshiva Knesses...
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    Ahron Dovid Burack (category Yeshiva University rosh yeshivas)
    young man in Lithuania, he studied at Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) near Kaunas and at the Telshe Yeshiva near Telsiai, where he was ordained by...
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    Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman (category Slabodka yeshiva alumni)
    the rabbi. He studied in Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in Slabodka, under the "Alter", Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai...
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    Yechezkel Sarna (category Israeli Rosh yeshivas)
    (known as the "Alter (elder) of Slabodka"), spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva. He was sent by Finkel to move the yeshiva from Europe to Hebron in 1925...
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    considered him one of the Rishonim. Large groups of people, including many yeshivas, uphold the set of Jewish customs and rites (minhag), the "minhag ha-Gra"...
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    York Mesivta Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch Queens Forest Hills, New York Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch Poconos Canadensis, PA Yeshiva Kol Yaakov...
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