Avraham Pam
1913 CE–2001 CE · Modern · Vidz
Rabbi Avraham Yaakov HaKohen Pam (1913-2001) was an American rosh yeshiva who led Mesivta Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn for much of the twentieth century. Born in Vidz, in the Lithuanian region, he studied as a youth in the yeshiva of Slabodka before his family emigrated to the United States in 1927. He joined the faculty of Torah Vodaas as a Talmud lecturer in 1938 and, over more than six decades there, rose to serve as its rosh yeshiva, teaching generations of students and guiding those preparing for rabbinic ordination. He also sat on the Council of Torah Sages of Agudath Israel of America. In 1990 he founded Shuvu, a network of schools in Israel offering Jewish education to children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. He died in 2001 and, at his request, no eulogies were delivered.
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Yonasan Steif, Ponevezher Rav, Reuven Grozovsky, Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, Yoel Teitelbaum, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Yaakov Kamenetsky, Aharon Kotler, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, Yitzchak Hutner, Avigdor Miller, Yisrael Zev Gustman, Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Menachem Mendel Taub, Menashe Klein, David Hartman, Aryeh Kaplan
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