- Yechezkel Levenstein
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Rabbi
Yechezkel LevensteinBorn 1895
WarsawDied 1974
JerusalemEducation 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.
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Mir Yeshiva Locations Faculty in Mir, Belarus Eliezer Yehuda Finkel • Avrohom Kalmanowitz • Eliyahu Boruch Kamai • Yeruchom Levovitz • Yechezkel Levenstein • Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim • Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz • Avrohom Tiktinsky • Chaim Leib Tiktinsky • Shmuel TiktinskyFaculty in Jerusalem, Israel Eliezer Yehuda Finkel • Asher Arieli • Yitzchok Ezrachi • Binyomin Beinush Finkel • Eliyahu Boruch Finkel • Gedaliah Finkel • Nosson Tzvi Finkel • Nochum Partzovitz • Chaim Leib ShmuelevitzFaculty in New York, United States Shmuel Berenbaum • Ezriel Erlanger • Eliezer Ginsburg • Avrohom Kalmanowitz • Osher Eliyahu Kalmanowitz • Dovid KviatFaculty in Brachfeld (Modi'in Illit, Israel) Aryeh Leib Finkel
Ponevezh Yeshiva Roshei Yeshiva Shlomo Berman • Dovid Povarsky • Shmuel Rozovsky • Elazar Menachem ShachMashgichim Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler • Chaim Friedlander • Yechezkel LevensteinOther leaders This biographical article about an Israeli rabbi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.