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Shmuel Rozovsky
Shmuel Rozovsky
1913 CE–1979 CE · Modern · Grodno (Belarus)
Shmuel Rozovsky (1913-1979) was a Lithuanian-tradition Talmudist known for his method of analytical study. He was born in Grodno, where his father, Michel Dovid Rozovsky, served as a communal rabbi, and he received his early training at the local Sha'ar HaTorah yeshiva, studying under Shimon Shkop and Yisroel Zev Gustman. In 1935 he moved to Mandatory Palestine, continuing his studies at the Lomza yeshiva in Petach Tikvah; he later married a daughter of Tzvi Pesach Frank, a leading rabbinic authority in Jerusalem. In 1944 he was appointed a head of the newly established Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, a position he held for the rest of his life and through which he taught generations of students. His shiurim and chiddushim were collected after his death and issued as Zichron Shmuel, Shiurei R' Shmuel, and Chiddushei R' Shmuel.
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Stop 1 of 31913–1935Born
Grodno (Belarus)Western Russia / Lithuania
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About Grodno (Belarus)
Grodno (Hrodna), a city in western Belarus near the Lithuanian and Polish borders, had a large Jewish community and was a noted center of Lithuanian Torah learning. Until 1939 it was home to the Sha'ar HaTorah yeshiva headed by Rabbi Shimon Shkop, one of the most influential roshei yeshiva of the Lithuanian world, whose analytical method shaped a generation; the yeshiva fled to Vilna at the Soviet occupation while Shkop, too ill to travel, died in Grodno.
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Shimon Shkop, Chaim-Moshe Shapira, Chaim Shmuelevitz, Aryeh Leib Malin, Dovid Lifshitz, Yehudah Gershoni
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Shimon Shkop, Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Chazon Ish, Mosheh Oyerbakh, József Patai, Yechezkel Levenstein, Ponevezher Rav, Chaim Meir Hager, Alfonso Pacifici, Eliyahu Dessler, Joseph Meir Elefant, Elazar Menachem Man Shach, Steipler, Dovid Povarsky, Chaim-Moshe Shapira, Chaim Shmuelevitz, Yechiel Michel Feinstein, Aryeh Leib Malin
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Shiurei R' Shmuel
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Chiddushei R' Shmuel
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