Position Rosh yeshiva Name Eliezer Finkel Nationality Israeli | Birth name Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Began 2011 | |
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Yeshiva Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) Predecessor Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel | ||
Harav chaim kanievsky and harav eliezer yehuda finkel on sukkos 5776
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (also called Leizer Yudel Finkel) is a Haredi Jewish rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, which is considered to be the largest yeshiva in Israel with a student body of 6,000 students. He acceded to the position of rosh yeshiva after his father, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, died suddenly on 8 November 2011.
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- Harav chaim kanievsky and harav eliezer yehuda finkel on sukkos 5776
- Sukkos hachnosas orchim with harav chaim kanievsky and harav eliezer yehuda finkel in yerushalayim
- Biography
- References
Sukkos hachnosas orchim with harav chaim kanievsky and harav eliezer yehuda finkel in yerushalayim
Biography
Finkel was named after his maternal great-grandfather, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, known as "Reb Leizer Yudel", who became rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Poland in 1917 and re-established the yeshiva in Jerusalem during World War II whilst the main body of the Yeshiva was in exile in the Far East. His great-great-grandfather was the celebrated Mussar leader, the Alter of Slabodka.
References
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (Mir Jerusalem rosh yeshiva) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA