Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
Rabbi
Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
יצחק זאב סולובייצ'יק‎
TitleThe Brisker Rav
Personal life
BornYitzchok Zev Soloveitchik19 October 1886
Wołożyn, Vistula Land
Died11 October 1959(1959-10-11) (aged 72)
Jerusalem
BuriedHar HaMenuchos, Jerusalem[1]
SpouseAlte Hendl Auerbach
ChildrenFreidel (1913–1919)Berel (Yosef Dov)Lifsha (married Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein)ChaimMeshulam Dovid SoloveitchikBoruch Refoel Yehoshua SoloveitchikGittel Sara Rascha (1926–1942)MeirFeige Tzirel (1931–1932)Rivka (married Rabbi Yaakov Schiff)Naftali Tzvi Yehudah LeibShmuel Yaakov
Parent(s)Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik and Lifsha Shapira
OccupationRabbi
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationOrthodox Judaism

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 Orthodoxrabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Brisk yeshiva in Jerusalem.

A scion of the Soloveitchik rabbinical dynasty, he is commonly referred to as the "GRY"Z" (an acronym for GaonRabbi 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. 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)

References

  1. ^Samsonowitz, M. (30 October 2002). "Burial in Jerusalem: The Har Menuchos Cemetery". Dei'ah VeDibur. Archived from the original on 14 March 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  2. ^ abcGreen, David B. (October 10, 2015). "Scion of a great 'Lithuanian' dynasty passes away". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  3. ^Frand, Yissocher (7 June 2002) "Do it Right the First Time! Parshas Tetzaveh", torah.org. "R. Yitzchak Ze’ev (Velvel) Soloveitchik (1887-1959); took over from his father (R. Chaim Soloveitchik) in Brisk; escaped during World War II to Eretz Yisroel."
  4. ^https://www.amimagazine.org/2018/09/02/between-rav-baruch-mordechai-ezrachi-brisk/ "This is something we got from the Brisker Rav, who wouldn’t say even one word by heart. I’m not talking about a pasuk—I’m talking about everything! So I accustomed myself to doing the same thing"

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