Yechezkel Levenstein

Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein

Born	1885 Warsaw
Died	1974 (aged 88–89) Bene Berak
Education	Raduń Yeshiva, Kelm Talmud Torah

Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein, known as Reb Chatzkel, (1885 – 18 Adar (11 or 12 March) 1974),^[1] was the mashgiach ruchani of the Mir Yeshiva, in Mir, Belarus and during the yeshiva's escape 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, the United States, and Israel.^[2]

Biography

Levenstein was born in Warsaw^[3] (5656)^[4] His mother, Zlota, died when he was five years old; his father, Yehuda, subsequently remarried.^[3] He studied for 2+1⁄2 years in the yeshiva in Łomża, influenced by the mussar movement, then in Raduń Yeshiva under the Chofetz Chaim and Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz, and finally in the Kelm Talmud Torah.

His wife was named Chaya.^[3]

From 5695 (1935), for about 2 years^[4]^[5] he was the mashgiach of Yeshivas Lomza in Petach Tikvah.

Shanghai

News reached Shanghai Adar 5703 (1943), where the Mir spent the war years, of the murders of so many of Lithuanian Jewry. The eulogy of the martyrs by the mashgiach was published in a book, Mimizrach Shemesh.^[6]

Yeshivos

The Yeshivos that he founded or strongly influenced include:^[7]

Before World War II

Mir Yeshiva (Poland), as Mashgiach Ruchani

After the War

Mir Yeshivah (Yerushalayim)
Ponovezh Yeshivah (B'nei Brak)

Works

Or Yechezkel, a seven volume^[7] work of musar

Bibliography

Kasnett, Yitzchak (2007) Reb Chatzkel. Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein - Guardian of Torah and Mussar, Artscroll Mesorah Publications, ISBN 9781422605387

External links

References

^ "Yartzeite of Rav Yechezkel Levenstein is the 18th of Adar." "Yartzeite of Rav Yechezkel Levenstein: Learning".
^ Goldberger, Moshe. One Minute History Lessons: Six Millennia of Great Jewish Leaders. Targum Press. ISBN 9781568712383.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Rav Yechezkel Levenstein zt"l, Mashgiach of Mir and Ponevezh, On His 37th Yahrtzeit, Today". Matzav. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
^ ^a ^b A. Bar Moshe (March 17, 1999). "And His Hands Were Faithful -- the Twenty Fifth Yahrtzeit of HaRav Yechezkel Levenstein Zt'l, Mashgiach of Mir and Ponevezh".
^ "When Reb Yeruchom passed away (on the eighteenth of Sivan 5697) however, the heads of the yeshiva asked Reb Chatzkel if he would agree to return ..."
^ "An Approach to the Suffering of the European Churban". Retrieved 2017-02-16.
^ ^a ^b Or Yechezkel : Rav Yechezkel HaLevi Levenstein (7 Vol.). Retrieved 2017-02-19.

v t e Mir Yeshiva
Locations	Mir, Belarus Jerusalem, Israel New York, United States Modi'in Illit, Israel
Faculty in Mir, Belarus	Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (b. 1879) Avraham Kalmanowitz Eliyahu Boruch Kamai Yeruchom Levovitz Yechezkel Levenstein Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz Avrohom Tiktinsky Chaim Leib Tiktinsky Shmuel Tiktinsky
Faculty in Jerusalem, Israel	Asher Arieli Binyomin Carlebach Yitzchok Ezrachi Binyomin Beinush Finkel Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Eliyahu Boruch Finkel Gedaliah Finkel Nosson Tzvi Finkel Nochum Partzovitz Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz
Faculty in New York, United States	Avraham Kalmanowitz Shmuel Berenbaum Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz Avraham Yaakov Nelkenbaum Ezriel Erlanger Eliezer Ginsburg Osher Dov Berenbaum Osher Eliyahu Kalmanowitz Dovid Kviat Shmuel Brudny Elya Brudny
Faculty in Modi'in Illit, Israel	Aryeh Finkel Rabbi Noam Alon

v t e Ponevezh Yeshiva
Founder of yeshiva	Yitzhak Yaakov Rabinovich - founded yeshiva in 1908 in Ponevezh, Lithuania Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman - re-established yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel.
Roshei Yeshiva	Shlomo Berman Dovid Povarsky Shmuel Rozovsky Elazar Menachem Shach Baruch Dov Povarsky Gershon Edelstein
Mashgichim	Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler Chaim Friedlander Yechezkel Levenstein
Other leaders	Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman

Musar movement

People

Prewar leaders	Yisroel Salanter Simcha Zissel Ziv Yitzchak Blazer Nosson Tzvi Finkel Naftali Amsterdam Yosef Yozel Horwitz Yeruchom Levovitz Reuven Dov Dessler Eliezer Gordon Moshe Rosenstain Naftoli Trop
Postwar leaders	Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler Gershon Liebman Yechezkel Levenstein Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz Nosson Meir Wachtfogel Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg Shlomo Wolbe
Contemporary thinkers	Yechiel Perr Ira F. Stone Geoffrey Claussen Alan Morinis David Jaffe Hillel Goldberg

Yeshivot

Books

Musar literature

Practices

Terms

Mashgiach ruchani

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