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Valozhyn or
Volozhin (Belarusian: Валожын, romanized: Valožyn, IPA: [vaˈɫoʐɨn]; Russian: Воложин; Lithuanian: Valažinas; Polish: Wołożyn; Yiddish: וואָלאָזשין)...
- the
Volozhin Yeshiva (Yiddish: וואלאזשינער ישיבה, romanized: Volozhiner Yeshiva), was a
prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of
Volozhin in...
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Chaim of
Volozhin (also
known as
Chaim ben
Yitzchok of
Volozhin or
Chaim Ickovits; 21
January 1749 – 14 June 1821) was a rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist...
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Yitzhak of
Volozhin (also
known as
Rabbi Yitzhak ben
Chaim of
Volozhin,
Rabbi Itsele Volozhiner, and HagRIts; 1780 – 16 June 1849) was a rosh yeshiva...
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Chaim of
Volozhin, to
found a
yeshiva (rabbinic academy) in
which rabbinic literature should be taught.
Rabbi Chaim Volozhin opened the
Volozhin yeshiva...
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famous Volozhin Yeshiva in Lithuania. Bar-Ilan was also a
descendant of
Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, the
Maharam of Padua. He
studied at the
Volozhin Yeshiva...
- the
acronym Netziv, was an
Orthodox rabbi, rosh
yeshiva (dean) of the
Volozhin Yeshiva and
author of
several works of
rabbinic literature in Lithuania...
- Gaon
Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan Adler Schneur Zalman of
Liadi Chaim Volozhin 1800s
Nachman of
Breslov Ben Ish Chai
Shlomo Eliyashiv 1900s
Abraham Isaac...
- was the great-grandson of
Chaim Volozhin.
Yosef Dov
Soloveitchik was born to Rivka, a
granddaughter of
Chaim Volozhin. His
father was
Yitschok Ze'ev,...
- גר״ח), an
abbreviation of "HaGaon Reb Chaim."
Soloveitchik was born in
Volozhin on
March 25, 1853,
where his father,
Rabbi Yosef Dov
Soloveitchik was a...
