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Rabbi Refael Shapiro (1837–1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the Dean of a Yeshiva . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh ? meaning head, and yeshiva ? a school of religious Jewish education....
 of the Volozhin yeshiva
Volozhin yeshiva

The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a yeshiva in the town of Volozhin , founded in 1803 by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, a student of the Vilna Gaon....
 and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

File:Netziv.gifRabbi Rabbi Naphtali Tzvi Judah Berlin was the Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuanian Jews....
 (the Netziv). After the Volozhin yeshiva was closed down in 1892 by order of the Russian government, he reopened it, albeit on a smaller scale in 1899.






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Rabbi Refael Shapiro (1837–1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the Dean of a Yeshiva . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh ? meaning head, and yeshiva ? a school of religious Jewish education....
 of the Volozhin yeshiva
Volozhin yeshiva

The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a yeshiva in the town of Volozhin , founded in 1803 by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, a student of the Vilna Gaon....
 and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

File:Netziv.gifRabbi Rabbi Naphtali Tzvi Judah Berlin was the Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuanian Jews....
 (the Netziv). After the Volozhin yeshiva was closed down in 1892 by order of the Russian government, he reopened it, albeit on a smaller scale in 1899. He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik
Chaim Soloveitchik

Chaim Soloveitchik , also known as Reb Chaim Brisker, was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the popular Brisker approach to Talmudic study within Judaism....
 of Brisk
Brisk

Brisk may refer to:* Brest, Belarus Brisk is the city's name in Yiddish* The Brisk tradition and Soloveitchik dynasty, a school of Jewish thought originated by the Soloveitchik family of Brest ....
 and is known as the Toras Refael after his primary work.

Rabbi Shapiro ordained Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman
Isser Yehuda Unterman

Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman was the Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel from 1964 until 1972.Born in Brest-Litovsk in modern Belarus, Unterman was educated at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Maltsch....
 (who would eventually become one of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's chief rabbi
Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
s) who studied in the Kollel
Kollel

A kollel is an institute for advanced Torah study of the Talmud and of rabbinic literature for Jewish men, essentially a post-graduate yeshiva which pays married men a regular monthly stipend or annual salary to study Judaism's classic texts in depth....
 of the Volozhin yeshiva before opening his own yeshiva in the neighboring town of Vishova. Additionally, Rabbi Shapiro gave Semicha
Semicha

Semicha , also semichut , or semicha lerabbanut is derived from a Hebrew word which means to "rely on" or "to be authorized". It generally refers to the ordination of a rabbi within Judaism....
 (rabbinical ordination) to Rabbi Moshe Shatzkes
Moshe Shatzkes

Rabbi Moshe Shatzkes was a renowned Rabbi, Talmudic scholar and noted genius, commonly known as the "Lomzshe/Lomza Rov". He was one of the pre-eminent Roshei Yeshiva and one of the greatest Rabbis in all of Poland....
, known as the Lomza
Lomza

Lomza [] is a town in north-eastern Poland, approximately 90 miles from Warsaw and 50 miles from Bialystok. It is situated alongside the Narew river and has been in the Podlaskie Voivodeship since 1999; previously, it was the capital of the Lomza Voivodeship ....
 Rov, and Rabbi Meir Joshua Rosenberg.

Rabbi Shapiro died on the 23rd of the Jewish month of Adar
Adar

Adar is the sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the religious year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a winter month of 29 days. In leap years, it is preceded by a 30-day intercalary month named Adar Aleph , Adar Rishon or Adar I and it is then itself called Adar Bet , Adar Sheni or Adar II....
 in 1921. As a younger resident of Volozhin wrote many years later he was "Our Rov, our Genius, the first among firsts... His virtuous eyes radiated kindness... None could be compared to our Reb Refoel."

The man added, "When you looked at Reb Refoel it seemed that you are not facing a man from this world, but a man who was truly created in God's Image... Everyone who saw Reb Refoel remained enchanted by his personality for the rest of his life."

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