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Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1879)

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Later Shmuelevitz came to Jerusalem to be Rosh Yeshiva under his father-in-law. One of Finkel's sons, Rabbi
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In 1903 Finkel married Malka, the daughter of Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai who was the Rosh Yeshiva of the
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With the outbreak of World War II, the yeshiva was forced into exile and eventually it found refuge in
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succeeded his brother-in-law Shmuelevitz as Rosh Yeshiva upon the latter's death in the 1979.
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from all over the world. During this time Finkel chose one of his students, Rabbi
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Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (Mir rosh yeshiva, Poland and Jerusalem)
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He founded other yeshivas, including the original yeshiva of
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Belarusian-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva of Mir
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Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (Mir rosh yeshiva, Poland and Jerusalem)

Judaism
Beinish
Nosson Tzvi Finkel
Haredi
Chaim Shmuelevitz
Rosh yeshiva
Mir yeshiva (Belarus)
Rosh Yeshiva
Mir Yeshiva
Polish
Jerusalemic
Mussar movement
Nosson Tzvi Finkel
Chaim Soloveichik
Brisk
Raduń Yeshiva
yeshiva
Mir, Belarus
interwar period
students
Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz

Beth Aharon Synagogue
Kobe
Shanghai
Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn)
Jerusalem
Talmudic

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