Ohr HaTzafun
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Alter of Slabodka
Alter of Slabodka
1849 CE–1927 CE · Acharonim · Raseiniai (Rosiyen)
Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, widely known as the Alter (Elder) of Slabodka, was born in 1849 in Raseiniai, in the Kovno region of Lithuania. As a young man he studied at the Talmud Torah of Kelm under Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, absorbing the ethical discipline of the mussar movement. He went on to guide the yeshiva of Slabodka, known as Knesses Yisrael, which under his direction became a leading center of Torah learning shaped by mussar and whose students went on to head yeshivas in Europe, America, and the Land of Israel. His teaching is associated with the theme of Gadlus HaAdam, the greatness of the human being. In the 1920s he helped establish a branch in Hebron together with Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, settled in the Land of Israel in his final years, and died in Jerusalem in 1927. His ethical discourses were later collected under the title Ohr HaTzafun.
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