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Ponevezh Yeshiva (Lithuanian: Panevėžio ješiva),
often pronounced as
Ponevitch Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת פוניבז׳), is a
yeshiva founded in 1919 in Panevėžys...
- matches. The city is
still known in the
Jewish world for the
eponymous Ponevezh Yeshiva. The name of the city is
derived from the
Lithuanian hydronym Nevėžis...
- also as
Ponevezher Rav), was an
Orthodox rabbi and rosh
yeshiva of the
Ponevezh Yeshiva. He was a
renowned Torah and
Talmudic scholar, a distinguished...
- Yosef. He
studied at the Or
Israel Yeshiva in his youth, a year at the
Ponevezh Yeshiva and then at the
Hebron Yeshiva (Knesset of Israel) in Jerusalem...
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served as
chair of the
Council of
Sages and one of
three co-deans of the
Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak,
along with
Shmuel Rozovsky and
Dovid Povarsky. Due...
- best
known for
being the
mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual counselor") of the
Ponevezh yeshiva in
Israel and
through collections of his
writings published posthumously...
- then-spiritual
leader Rabbi Elazar Shach, the
venerated Rosh
yeshiva of the
famed Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, and the
spiritual leader of
Agudat Yisrael, the Pnei...
- and
sometimes even
while studying, as
evident in a rare
footage of the
Ponevezh Yeshiva and a
photo of the
Lomza Yeshiva, both in
Eastern Europe. Both...
- for most
later yeshivas.
Twentieth century "Lithuanian"
yeshivas include Ponevezh, Telshe, Mir, Kelm, and Slabodka,
which bear the
names of
their Lithuanian...
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Shmuel Rozovsky (1913–1979) was Rosh
Yeshiva of the
Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel.
Rozovsky was born in Grodno,
where his
father Michel Dovid Rozovsky...
