Yechezkel Sarna

Yechezkel Sarna, born in 1890 in Horodok, studied across the Lithuanian yeshiva world, including at Maltsch under Rabbi Shimon Shkop, before becoming a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel at the Slabodka yeshiva, where he absorbed its combination of Talmudic study and Musar ethical training. He married a daughter of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, one of Slabodka's heads, and in the mid-1920s helped relocate the yeshiva, Knesses Yisrael, from Lithuania to Hebron. After the 1929 Hebron massacre, in which about two dozen of its students were killed, Sarna brought the survivors to Jerusalem and refounded the school there, retaining the name Hebron in memory of the dead. He was later appointed rosh yeshiva, guided it for decades, and helped lead Israel's Chinuch Atzmai school network. His teachings appeared in the volumes Daliyot Yechezkel and Beis Yechezkel. He died in Jerusalem in 1969.