Henoch Leibowitz

Henoch Leibowitz

Infobox_President
honorific-prefix =Rabbi
name =Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz
honorific-suffix =ZT"L
nationality = American


imagesize =180px
order =2nd Rosh Yeshiva (Dean) of
term_start =December 7, 1941
term_end =April 15, 2008
predecessor =Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz
successor =Rabbi Dovid Harris and Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt
birth_date =birth date|1918|6|2|mf=y.This was the date listed on his passport. (cite news | author= Greenwald, Shlomo | title=Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, dies | url=http://www.jewishpress.com/displaycontent_new.cfm?contentid=31406&contentname=Rabbi%20Henoch%20Leibowitz,%20Rosh%20Yeshiva%20of%20Yeshiva%20Chofetz%20Chai&sectionid=15&mode=a&recnum=0 | publisher=The Jewish Press | date=2008-04-18 | accessdate=2008-04-23)]
birth_place =SelechnikThis was a town on the border between Lithuania and Poland near Kovno(cite news | author= Greenwald, Shlomo | title=Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, dies | url=http://www.jewishpress.com/displaycontent_new.cfm?contentid=31406&contentname=Rabbi%20Henoch%20Leibowitz,%20Rosh%20Yeshiva%20of%20Yeshiva%20Chofetz%20Chai&sectionid=15&mode=a&recnum=0 | publisher=The Jewish Press | date=2008-04-18 | accessdate=2008-04-23)]
death_date =death date and age|2008|4|15|1918|6|2
death_place =New York|

Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz (June 2, 1918 – April 15, 2008) was an Orthodox rabbi who was rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen, which was founded by his father Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz in 1933.

Life

Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz was born in 1918 in Selechnik and was the only son of Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz. Rabbi Henoch came to America in 1926 when his father was hired by Mesivta Torah Vodaath as a teacher. In 1933 Rabbi Dovid left Torah Vodaath and founded Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. His father's death in 1941 left him in charge of the fledgling yeshiva while still in his early 20s, and he spent the rest of his life leading the yeshiva to a prominent place in American Orthodox Jewish life while building a network of Torah institutions across the United States and Israel.

See also

* Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen
* Chofetz Chaim (disambiguation).
* Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel (an affiliate school).

References

External links

* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3224354401352619126&q=rabbi Video of Rabbi Leibowitz's recent wedding]
* [http://www.5tjt.com/news/read.asp?Id=2317 Five Towns Jewish Times Obituary]
* [http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=80998351 Individual.com Obituary]
* [http://rapidshare.com/files/116685117/henoch.zip.html Audio of Hespid Shloshim]
* [http://www.jewishpress.com/displaycontent_new.cfm?contentid=31406&contentname=Rabbi%20Henoch%20Leibowitz,%20Rosh%20Yeshiva%20of%20Yeshiva%20Chofetz%20Chai&sectionid=15&mode=a&recnum=0 Jewish Press Obituary]


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