From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shmuel Rozovsky
Shmuel Rozovsky
Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky (1913–1979) is known as a Talmu- cluding Chumash with the commentaries of Rashi and
dic lecturer at Ponevezh Yeshiva and is counted amongst Nachmanides.
the great rabbis of his generation. During his heyday, Reb
Shmuel was known as the king of the yeshivah world.
Hundreds attended his lectures. He is known worldwide
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for his clarity in explaining complex Talmud topics.[1]
He was born in Grodno to the town’s Chief Rabbi, Students
Rabbi Michel Dovid Rozovsky and Sarah Pearl, daughter
• Rabbi Asher Arielli of Yeshivas Mir is a student of
of Rav Avraham Gelburd (the previous Rabbi of Grodno
Rabbi Rozovsky
[2]). At a very young age, he began studying under Rabbi
• Rabbi Binyomin Moskovits, who started Midrash
Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz in the Yeshiva of Rabbi Shimon
Shmuel Yeshiva in Sha’arei Hesed, Jerusalem, named
Shkop[3], and eventually became considered one of the
after Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky.
principal students of Rabbi Shimon Shkop.
• Rabbi Ephraim Kirshenbaum, Rav of Beis Medrash
In 1935, after the death of Rav Shmuel’s father, Rav
Pnei Shmuel, Ramat Beit Shemesh
Shmuel had to flee to Palestine to escape being drafted
into the Russian army. There he studied in the Lomzha
Yeshivah in Petach Tikvah. In Palestine, Rav Shmuel mar- Works
ried his wife, the daughter of Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank,
• Chiddushei Rabbi Shmuel
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Rav Shmuel eventually began
• Shiurei Rabbi Shmuel
to lecture in the Lomzha Yeshiva in Petach Tivkva along-
• Zichron Shmuel
side Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro and Rabbi Elazar Me-
nachem Shach[4]. In 1944, he was asked by Rabbi Yosef Persondata
Shlomo Kahaneman to head the newly-opened Ponovezh Name Rozovsky, Shmuel
Yeshivah in Bnei Barak. Eventually, Rabbi Dovid Povarsky Alternative names
and Rabbi Shach also joined as Roshei Yeshiva there.
Short description
While being treated medically in a hospital in Boston,
Rav Shmuel was reputed to have specifically asked for an Date of birth 1913
audience with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.[5] Place of birth
Despite his strong emphasis on Talmudic skills, Rav Date of death 1979
Shmuel also stressed personal perfection [6] and Mussar
Place of death
[7] as well as the need to study other facets of Torah in-
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• 1913 births
• 1979 deaths
• Haredi rabbis in Israel
• Rosh yeshivas
• People from Grodno
• Rabbis in Ottoman and British Palestine
• Ponevezh Yeshiva
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