Levush Mordechai
Hebron · 1929
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Moshe Mordechai Epstein
Moshe Mordechai Epstein
1866 CE–1933 CE · Acharonim · Bokstai
Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866-1933) was a Lithuanian Talmudist and yeshiva head. Born in Bokstai (Bakst), in the Vilna region, he studied at the celebrated yeshiva of Volozhin under Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik. In the 1890s he became rosh yeshiva of the Knesset Yisrael yeshiva in Slabodka, a leading center of the Mussar movement, where he directed Talmudic study alongside its mashgiach, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel. He was also among the founders of the town of Hadera. Active in the organized religious life of Lithuanian Jewry, he took part in the rabbinical councils of Agudath Israel. In 1924 he led much of the Slabodka yeshiva to Hebron; after the riots there in 1929, the institution resettled in Jerusalem. His novellae on the tractates of the Talmud were collected as Levush Mordechai. He died in Jerusalem in 1933.
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