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Yechezkel Abramsky

Yechezkel Abramsky

1886 CE–1976 CE · Acharonim · Grodno (Belarus)

Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky (1886-1976) was a rabbinic scholar active in the Russian Empire, England, and the Land of Israel. Born in the Grodno region of present-day Belarus, he studied in the Lithuanian yeshiva world, including at Telz and at Brisk, where Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik was among his teachers. He served the community of Slutsk. Under Soviet rule he was arrested in 1929 and sentenced to hard labor in Siberia; in 1931 he was released through the intervention of the German government in a prisoner exchange. Settling in London, he led the Machzike Hadath congregation and, from 1934, headed the London Beth Din until 1951, when he moved to Jerusalem. His principal work, Chazon Yechezkel, is a multi-volume commentary on the Tosefta. He received the Israel Prize for rabbinic literature in 1956.

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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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Chazon Yechezkel

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