Slutsk
Belarus
Slutsk, a town in central Belarus south of Minsk, was a major center of Lithuanian Torah scholarship. Its yeshiva was founded in 1897 by Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Willowski (the Ridvaz), then rav of the town, with students drawn from the Slabodka yeshiva; Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer served as rosh yeshiva and, from 1903, as rav of Slutsk for about two decades, joined by his son-in-law Rabbi Aharon Kotler. After World War I the yeshiva relocated to nearby Kletsk under Rabbi Kotler.
11 teachers
Teachers who lived here
- בה
Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Brisk
R. Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Brisk (Beit HaLevi) (1820–1892)
rabbinate 1865–1874
Ridvaz
Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (1845–1913)
rabbinate 1890–1896
Chaim Brisker
Chaim Soloveitchik (founder of the Brisker derech) (1853–1918)
study 1857–1869
Yosef Rosen of Rogatchov
Yosef Rosen of Rogatchov (Tzofnat Pa'aneach) (1858–1936)
study 1871
Baruch Ber Leibowitz
Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz (1864–1939)
birth 1864–1878
Isser Zalman Meltzer
Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870–1953)
rabbinate 1897–1923
Yeruchom Levovitz
Yeruchom Levovitz (Mir mashgiach) (1873–1936)
birth 1873
- אק
Aharon Kotler
Aharon Kotler (1892–1962)
rabbinate 1912–1920
- מפ
Moshe Feinstein
Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986)
study 1910–1921
Elazar Menachem Man Shach
Elazar Menachem Man Shach (Ponevezh) (1899–2001)
study 1915
Shneur Kotler
Rabbi Shneur Kotler (1918–1982)
birth 1918