Netivot Shalom
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Netivot Shalom
Netivot Shalom
1911 CE–2000 CE · Modern · Baranavichy
R. Sholom Noah Berezovsky (1911-2000) was the seventh Slonimer Rebbe and the author of Netivot Shalom — one of the most widely-read modern Hasidic mussar works and a foundational text for contemporary Lithuanian-Hasidic spiritual seekers. Born in Baranovich into the Slonim Hasidic dynasty, he survived World War II hidden in monasteries and rebuilt the Slonim community in Israel.
His Netivot Shalom — a Torah-cycle and holiday-cycle commentary with a distinctly contemporary register — speaks to the modern religious crisis of meaning in a way that has resonated across denominational lines: it is read in Litvak yeshivot, by Modern Orthodox laypeople, and across the Hasidic world. He founded the Yeshivat Sons of Israel network and led the Slonim community in Jerusalem until his death.
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Stop 1 of 41911–1935Born
Baranavichy
What they did here
Born here in 1911, the son of Moshe Avrohom Berezovsky, who led the town's Jewish community, and Tzvia, a descendant of the Weinberg family tied to the founder of the Slonim dynasty.
In Baranavichy at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Netivot Shalom’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Minhat Yehuda, Zelig Reuven Bangis, 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, Yaakov Moshe Charlap, Yechezkel Levenstein
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Netivot Shalom’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.