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Dovid Povarsky
Dovid Povarsky
1902 CE–1999 CE · Modern · Kletsk
Rabbi Yehoshua Dovid Povarsky (1902-1999) was among the leading Talmud teachers of the Lithuanian yeshiva world after its transplantation to the Land of Israel. In his youth he studied at the Kelm Talmud Torah under Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz, following his teacher to the Mir Yeshiva, and later learned under Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman in Kovno. He settled in Bnei Brak, where Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman invited him to help lead the Ponevezh Yeshiva alongside Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach and Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky, forming a shared leadership that guided the institution for decades. His analytical Talmudic lectures were gathered in the volumes of Yeshuos Dovid and Shiurei Reb Dovid, and his ethical discourses appeared as Yishmeru Da'as. Several of his sons entered the rabbinate, and his son Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky succeeded him at Ponevezh.
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Kletsk, a town in central Belarus, was the home of a major Lithuanian yeshiva in the interwar period. After World War I the Slutsk yeshiva relocated here, and under Rabbi Aharon Kotler it operated for some two decades as one of the leading yeshivot of Poland and Lithuania before the outbreak of World War II forced it to flee to Vilna.
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Shiurei R' Dovid
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Yishmeru Da'as
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Yeshuas Dovid
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