Chaim Volozhin

Chaim Volozhin

male, deceased (1821)
Chaim Volozhin (1749-1821) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as "Reb Chaim Volozhiner", or simply "Reb Chaim",...
Chaim Berlin

Chaim Berlin

male, deceased (1912)
Chaim Berlin (Hebrew: חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865. He was the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, a...
Meir Bar-Ilan

Meir Bar-Ilan

male, deceased (1949)
Meir Berlin, later Hebraized to Meir Bar-Ilan, (1880-1949), born Volozhin, Lithuania, died Jerusalem, Israel) was an Orthodox rabbi and leader of...
Zalman Sorotzkin

Zalman Sorotzkin

male
Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin (1881-1966) was a famous Orthodox Rabbi. He is also known as the "Lutzker Rav", since he served as the Rabbi of Lutsk,...
Moshe Shmuel Shapiro

Moshe Shmuel Shapiro

male, deceased (2006)
Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro (1917-2006) was a Rosh Yeshiva and important rabbinic figure in Israel. His father, Rabbi Aryeh Shapiro, was the son of...

Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman

male, deceased (1953)
Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman (1868 - June 1953) was an Orthodox Jewish Talmudic scholar, rabbi and Dayan of the London Beth Din. He was born in...
Refael Shapiro

Refael Shapiro

male, deceased (1921)
Rabbi Refael Shapiro (1837-1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the...
Bezalel Rakow

Bezalel Rakow

male, deceased (2003)
Rabbi Bezalel Rakow was an orthodox rabbi who headed Gateshead’s Jewish community. He was the chair of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudas Yi...
Boruch Ber Leibowitz

Boruch Ber Leibowitz

male, deceased (1940)
Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz (Hebrew: ברוך בער ליבוביץ) was a main student of Rabbi Chaim Brisker and was famed for his Talmudic lectures. Reb...
Shimon Shkop

Shimon Shkop

male, deceased (1940)
Rabbi Shimon Shkop (1860-1940) was a rosh yeshiva ("dean") in the Telshe yeshiva and a renowned Talmudic sholar. He was born in Tortz in 1860. At...