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Zalman Sorotzkin

Zalman Sorotzkin

Also known as The Lutzker Rav

1881 CE–1966 CE · Acharonim · Zakhrina

Zalman Sorotzkin (1881-1966), widely known as the Lutzker Rav, was a Lithuanian-born rabbi, halakhic authority, and organizer of Torah education. Born in Žagarė to Rabbi Ben-Zion Sorotzkin, he studied at the yeshivas of Volozhin, Slabodka, and Telz, and married a daughter of Rabbi Eliezer Gordon of Telz. He held early rabbinical posts in the Lithuanian and Belarusian lands, founding a yeshiva in Voronovo and later serving in Zhetel (Dziatłava), before becoming rabbi of Lutsk in Volhynia in 1930. During the Second World War he directed the Vaad HaYeshivos, which coordinated support for displaced yeshivas, and then reached Jerusalem. There he helped lead Agudath Israel's Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, eventually as chairman, and headed the Chinuch Atzmai school network. His writings include the Torah commentary Oznayim LaTorah, the responsa Moznayim LaMishpat, the homiletic HaDe'ah VeHaDibbur, and a posthumous Haggadah commentary, HaShir VeHaShevach.

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Shu"t Moznayim LaMishpat

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Oznayim LaTorah

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HaDe'ah VeHaDibbur

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