Migdal Dovid
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Ridvaz
Ridvaz
1845 CE–1913 CE · Acharonim · Kobrin
Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky, remembered by the acronym Ridvaz (for Rabbi Yaakov Dovid ben Ze'ev), was born in 1845 in Kobrin, in the Grodno region of present-day Belarus. He held rabbinic posts in several Lithuanian and Belarusian towns before becoming chief rabbi of Slutsk in 1890, where he founded a yeshiva and appointed the young Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer to head it. His major scholarly project was a pair of commentaries on the Jerusalem Talmud, Chiddushei Ridvaz and Tosfoth HaRid, developed over decades using a copy that the Vilna Gaon had annotated. He also produced the Talmudic novellae Migdal Dovid, the responsa collection Shu"t HaRidvaz, and Nimukei HaRidvaz on the Torah. After a brief tenure leading a Chicago congregation, he settled in Tzfat in 1905, founded the yeshiva Toras Eretz Yisrael, and joined the shemittah-observance debates of his day. He died in Tzfat in 1913.
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Kobrin (Kobryn), a town in the Brest region of southwestern Belarus, had an established Jewish community and was the seat of the Kobrin chasidic dynasty, related to the Slonim-Karlin chasidic line.
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