Yechezkel Levenstein

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)