Yechezkel Levenstein

Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein
Born	1895 Warsaw
Died	1974 Jerusalem
Education	Raduń Yeshiva, Kelm Talmud Torah

Yechezkel Levenstein, known as Reb Chatzkel, (1895 - 18 Adar 1974), was the mashgiach ruchani of the Mir yeshiva, in Mir, Belarus and during the yeshiva's flight to Lithuania and on to Shanghai due to the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II. He was a leader of several yeshivas in Europe, America, and Israel, and raised several generations of Torah-observant Jewry.

Rabbi Levenstein was born in Warsaw. His mother died when he was just five years old. He studied in the yeshiva in Łomża, where he was imbued with mussar, then in Raduń Yeshiva under the Chofetz Chaim and the famous mashgiach Rav Yeruchom Levovitz, and finally in Kelm.

Works

• Or Yechezkel a work of musar

The Mir yeshiva in Shanghai; Rabbi Levenstein is seated in the front row, first on the right(left of picture)

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