Chiddushei Rabbi Reuven
Brooklyn (NY) · 1959
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Reuven Grozovsky
Reuven Grozovsky
1886 CE–1958 CE · Acharonim · Minsk
Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky (1886-1958) was a rosh yeshiva of the Lithuanian analytical school. Born in Minsk to Rabbi Shimshon Grozovsky, a communal judge there, he studied at the Slabodka yeshiva under Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein and Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel. In 1919 he married a daughter of Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz and lived in a suburb of Vilna before moving with his father-in-law to Kaminetz, where he taught and eventually led the Knesses Beis Yitzchak yeshiva. He left Europe during the Second World War, reached the United States, and helped direct the Vaad Hatzalah rescue effort alongside Rabbis Aharon Kotler and Avraham Kalmanowitz. He led Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn for under a year, later guided Bais Medrash Elyon in Monsey, and chaired Agudath Israel's Council of Torah Sages. His Talmudic novellae were collected as Chiddushei Rabbi Reuven.
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MinskמינסקBelarus — Litvish Torah capital
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Minsk hosted one of the largest Litvish Jewish communities in the Russian Empire. R. Yerucham Yehuda Leib Perlman (Gadol of Minsk, 1835-1896) served as its chief rabbi; the city also produced the founders of the Mussar movement and major roshei yeshiva of the next century.
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Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Louis Ginzberg, Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Yonasan Steif, Meitcheter Illui, Chaim Heller, Pesach Pruskin, Mordecai Kaplan, Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, Yoel Teitelbaum, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Yaakov Kamenetsky, Moshe Feinstein, Saul Lieberman, Yochanan Perlow, Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Chiddushei R' Reuven
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