Ohr Yechezkel
Petach Tikvah · 1972
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Yechezkel Levenstein
Yechezkel Levenstein
1885 CE–1974 CE · Acharonim · Warsaw
Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein (1885-1974), often called Reb Chatzkel, was a mashgiach ruchani, the rabbi charged with students' spiritual and ethical formation, in the Lithuanian yeshiva world. Born in Warsaw, he studied at the yeshiva of Lomza, at Radin under the Chofetz Chaim and Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz, and at the Talmud Torah of Kelm, whose musar discipline shaped his life's work. He served as mashgiach at Kletzk and then at the Mir yeshiva, guiding it through its wartime exile from Poland across the Soviet Union to Shanghai, where the community continued its studies during the Second World War. Settling in the Land of Israel in 1949, he became mashgiach at the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem and later at Ponevezh in Bnei Brak. His ethical talks were gathered in the collections Ohr Yechezkel and MiMizrach Shemesh.
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WarsawCongress Poland
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Warsaw, on the Vistula, has been Poland's capital since Sigismund III moved the royal court there from Kraków in 1596. A predominantly Catholic city, it became a diocese in 1798 and an archdiocese in 1818. In the nineteenth century its Jewish community grew into the largest in Europe, and the city became a leading centre of Hebrew and Yiddish publishing and of Hasidic and rabbinic life; before the Second World War Jews were about 30 percent of the population. Under German occupation they were confined to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, and most were deported to Treblinka in 1942; the ghetto uprising began on 19 April 1943. The city was largely razed after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and later rebuilt.
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Yaʻaḳov Daṿid Ṿinṭrob, Yosef Rosen of Rogatchov, Yehuda Ashlag
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Yaʻaḳov Daṿid Ṿinṭrob, Yosef Rosen of Rogatchov, Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Marcheshes, Imrei Emes, Isser Zalman Meltzer, Naftali Trop, Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Yeruchom Levovitz, Elchonon Wasserman, Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Lev Eliyahu, Martin Buber, Jacob Nachum Epstein, Chazon Ish
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Ohr Yechezkel
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MiMizrach Shemesh
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