Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik

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Yitzchok Zev Halevi Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יצחק זאב הלוי סולובייצ'יק), also known as Velvel Soloveitchik ("Zev" means "wolf" in Hebrew, and "Velvel" is the diminutive of "wolf" in Yiddish) or the Brisker Rov ("rabbi of/from Brisk", (19 October 1886 11 October 1959), was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Brisk yeshiva in Jerusalem.

TitleThe Brisker Rav
BornYitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
19 October 1886
Died11 October 1959(1959-10-11) (aged 72)
BuriedHar HaMenuchos, Jerusalem[1]
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Rabbi
Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
יצחק זאב סולובייצ'יק
TitleThe Brisker Rav
Personal life
BornYitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
19 October 1886
Died11 October 1959(1959-10-11) (aged 72)
BuriedHar HaMenuchos, Jerusalem[1]
SpouseAlte Hendl Auerbach
ChildrenFreidel (1913–1919)
Berel (Yosef Dov)
Lifsha (married Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein)
Chaim
Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik
Boruch Refoel Yehoshua Soloveitchik
Gittel Sara Rascha (1926–1942)
Meir
Feige Tzirel (1931–1932)
Rivka (married Rabbi Yaakov Schiff)
Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Leib
Shmuel Yaakov
Parent(s)Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik and Lifsha Shapira
OccupationRabbi
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
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A scion of the Soloveitchik rabbinical dynasty, he is commonly referred to as the "GRY"Z" (an acronym for Gaon Rabbi Yitzchok Zev) and "The Rov". He was known for his stringency in halakha (Jewish law) and advocacy for non-participation in the Israeli political system.[2]

Biography

Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik was born to Chaim Soloveitchik in Valozhyn.[2] On his mother's side, he was the grandson of Refael Shapiro, a rosh yeshiva in the Volozhin yeshiva.

Soloveitchik moved with his family to the Jewish community of Brisk after the czarist government closed the Volozhin yeshiva. He would succeed his father as a rabbi of Brisk and leader of Judaic studies in his region.[2]

After fleeing the Holocaust and moving to Mandatory Palestine, he re-established the Brisk yeshiva in Jerusalem.[3]

After Soloveitchik's death in 1959, his son Berel took over his father's position as rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Brisk.[citation needed] Another of his sons was Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik.

Soloveitchik did not recite from memory when speaking, he read all his sources from their original works. [4]

Brisker rabbinic dynasty

See also

  • Yehoshua Leib Diskin, another Jewish leader known as the "rabbi from Brisk"
  • Naftali Rothenberg, Yair Halevi, ‘’’The Rabbi of Brisk: Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik’’’, in: Benjamin Brown, Nissim Leon, eds. The Gdoilim – Leaders Who Shaped the Israeli Haredi Jewry, Magnes Hebrew University Press, 2017, (Hebrew)

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