Shneur Kotler
1918 CE–1982 CE · Modern · Slutsk
Rabbi Yosef Chaim Shneur Kotler (1918–1982) was a Lithuanian-tradition Torah scholar who led the Lakewood yeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha, from 1962 until his death. Born in Slutsk, he was the son of Rabbi Aharon Kotler and a grandson, on his mother's side, of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. He pursued his early studies in Kletzk and Kamenitz, learning under Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz. When the war reached Lithuania he made his way through Vilna and reached Mandatory Palestine, continuing in Jerusalem under his grandfather at the Etz Chaim yeshiva. He immigrated to the United States in 1947 to join his father in Lakewood, later succeeding him as rosh yeshiva. During his two decades of leadership the institution expanded considerably, and he helped found affiliated kollelim in many communities. He was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Malkiel Kotler.
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SlutskBelarus
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About Slutsk
Slutsk, a town in central Belarus south of Minsk, was a major center of Lithuanian Torah scholarship. Its yeshiva was founded in 1897 by Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Willowski (the Ridvaz), then rav of the town, with students drawn from the Slabodka yeshiva; Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer served as rosh yeshiva and, from 1903, as rav of Slutsk for about two decades, joined by his son-in-law Rabbi Aharon Kotler. After World War I the yeshiva relocated to nearby Kletsk under Rabbi Kotler.
In Slutsk at the same time
Isser Zalman Meltzer, Aharon Kotler, Moshe Feinstein, Shaul Yisraeli
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Shneur Kotler’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Minhat Yehuda, Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Marcheshes, Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Imrei Emes, Isser Zalman Meltzer, Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Elchonon Wasserman, Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Martin Buber, Jacob Nachum Epstein, Mishpetei Uziel, Aharon Rokeach, Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Zalman Sorotzkin
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Shneur Kotler’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Yitzhak Kaduri· 1898 CE–2006 CE
- Elazar Menachem Man Shach (Ponevezh)· 1899 CE–2001 CE
- Rabbi Dovid Povarsky· 1902 CE–1999 CE
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson (7th Lubavitcher Rebbe)· 1902 CE–1994 CE
- Yitzchak Weiss· 1902 CE–1989 CE
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz· 1903 CE–1994 CE
- Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (The Rav)· 1903 CE–1993 CE
- R. Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam (Divrei Yatziv)· 1905 CE–1994 CE
- Nechama Leibowitz· 1905 CE–1997 CE
- Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz· 1906 CE–1993 CE
- Eliezer Berkovits· 1908 CE–1992 CE
- Rabbi Yisrael Zev Gustman· 1908 CE–1991 CE
- Rabbi Shimon Schwab· 1908 CE–1995 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam· 1908 CE–2000 CE
- R. Avigdor Miller· 1908 CE–2001 CE
- Rabbi Ephraim Oshry· 1908 CE–2003 CE
- R. Yehuda Tzadka· 1910 CE–1991 CE
- Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Minchat Shlomo)· 1910 CE–1995 CE
- Ephraim Urbach· 1912 CE–1991 CE
- Rabbi Shalom Schwadron· 1912 CE–1997 CE
- Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung· 1912 CE–1998 CE
- Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky· 1913 CE–1979 CE
- Rabbi Betzalel Zolty· 1920 CE–1982 CE
- Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz· 1923 CE–1986 CE
Buddhist world
Christian world
Scientists
Luminaries & Explorers world
Rulers world
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- Ronald Reagan· 1911 CE–2004 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Gerald Ford· 1913 CE–2006 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
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