Berel Soloveitchik

Berel Soloveitchik

Rabbi Berel (Yosef Dov) Soloveitchik was the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik and one of the leading Rosh Yeshivas ("heads of the yeshiva") of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, Israel. He was a first cousin to Joseph B. Soloveitchik, who was named after the Beis HaLevi, as he was. Rav Berel was succeeded as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Brisk in Jerusalem by his son Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik.

ee also

*Haredi Judaism
*Torah study
*Daat Torah


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