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Naftali Trop

Naftali Trop

1871 CE–1928 CE · Acharonim · Grodno (Belarus)

Rabbi Naftali Trop (1871–1928) was a Lithuanian Talmudist whose penetrating, conceptual manner of study left a deep mark on the yeshiva world. Born in Grodno, he entered the Talmud Torah of Kelm around age fourteen and remained for roughly a decade, learning for a long stretch beside Yerucham Levovitz. His formative years also took him to the yeshivot of Telz, Slabodka, and Novardok in Slonim, and he later returned to Slabodka to teach. In 1903, at the invitation of the Chofetz Chaim, he became head of the yeshiva in Radin, a post he held until his death; during the 1920s the school grew into one of Europe's largest. The chiddushim recorded from his shiurim were assembled by his disciples after his death under the title Chiddushei HaGranat, an acronym of his name.

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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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Chiddushei HaGranat

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