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Valozhyn or
Volozhin (Belarusian: Валожын, romanized: Valožyn, IPA: [vaˈɫoʐɨn]; Russian: Воложин; Lithuanian: Valažinas; Polish: Wołożyn; Yiddish: וואָלאָזשין)...
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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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dedicated all his time
exclusively to
Torah study. His student,
Rabbi Chaim of
Volozhin,
described how, when he was
preoccupied with a
Talmudic difficulty, he...
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acronym Netziv, was an
Orthodox rabbi, rosh
yeshiva (dean) of the
Volozhin Yeshiva and
author of
several works of
rabbinic literature in Lithuania...
- join the workforce.
Organised Torah study was
revolutionised by
Chaim Volozhin, an
influential 18th-century
Lithuanian leader of
Judaism and disciple...
- innovative. The most
notable results of
these efforts,
pioneered by
Chaim of
Volozhin and
continued by his disciples, were the modern,
independent yeshiva and...
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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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change when the
rabbi Chaim of
Volozhin began a sort of national-level yeshiva. In 1803, he
founded the
Volozhin Yeshiva and
began to
attract large...
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Initially it
contained 14 districts.
These districts were Astravets, Ashmyany,
Volozhin, Ilya, Iwye, Krivichi,
Kurenets (Its
center was
relocated in
Vileyka and...
