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Slabodka yeshiva, also known as Knesses Yisroel, and later as Hebron Yeshiva or Yeshivas Hevron, was known colloquially as the "mother of yeshiva
Yeshiva

Yeshiva or yeshivah , or metivta or mesivta ) also frequently referred to as a Beth midrash, Talmudical Academy, Rabbinical Academy or Rabbinical School is an institution unique to classical Judaism for Torah study, the study of Talmud, Rabbinic literature and History of responsa....
s" and was devoted to high level study of the Talmud
Talmud

The Talmud is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Halakha, Jewish ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism....
. The yeshiva was located in the Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
n town of Slabodka, adjacent to Kovno (Kaunas)
Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
, now Vilijampole
Vilijampole

Vilijampole is an Elderships of Lithuania in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, located on the right bank of the Neris River and the Neman River, near their confluence....
, a suburb of Kaunas. It functioned from the late 19th century until World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
.

From the second half of the 19th century, Kovno became a center of Jewish cultural activity in Lithuania.






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Slabodka yeshiva, also known as Knesses Yisroel, and later as Hebron Yeshiva or Yeshivas Hevron, was known colloquially as the "mother of yeshiva
Yeshiva

Yeshiva or yeshivah , or metivta or mesivta ) also frequently referred to as a Beth midrash, Talmudical Academy, Rabbinical Academy or Rabbinical School is an institution unique to classical Judaism for Torah study, the study of Talmud, Rabbinic literature and History of responsa....
s" and was devoted to high level study of the Talmud
Talmud

The Talmud is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Halakha, Jewish ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism....
. The yeshiva was located in the Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
n town of Slabodka, adjacent to Kovno (Kaunas)
Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
, now Vilijampole
Vilijampole

Vilijampole is an Elderships of Lithuania in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, located on the right bank of the Neris River and the Neman River, near their confluence....
, a suburb of Kaunas. It functioned from the late 19th century until World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
.

From the second half of the 19th century, Kovno became a center of Jewish cultural activity in Lithuania. Prominent there were Isaac Elhanan Spector (the "Kovner Rav"; officiated 1864-96); Abraham Mapu
Abraham Mapu

Abraham Mapu was a Lithuanian-born Hebrew novelist of the Haskalah movement. His novels later served as a basis for the Zionism movement.As a child, Mapu studied in a cheder where his father served as a teacher....
, one of the first modern Hebrew writers; and the first Yiddish literary critic, Ba'al Makhshoves (Israel Isidor Elyashev
Israel Isidor Elyashev

Israel Isidor Elyashev, MDDr. Israel Isidor Elyashev was a Jewish Neurology and the first Yiddish literary critic.He introduced the world to the works of the great contemporary Yiddish classical writers: Sholem Rabinovich, better known as- Sholem Aleichem, Mendele Mocher Sefarim, Isaac Leib Peretz and Nachum Sokolov; along with mo...
). The yeshivot of Slobodka became celebrated, in particular the Or Chayyim yeshivah, founded by Tzevi Levitan about 1863, which attracted students from other countries and was headed by noted scholars. Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, also known as "Der Alter of Slabodka", (The Elder of Slabodka) introduced Musar
Mussar movement

Mussar movement refers to a Judaism ethics, educational and cultural movement that developed in 19th century Orthodox Judaism Eastern Europe, particularly among the Lithuanian Jews....
 ideals there. Its 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....
 was Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein
Moshe Mordechai Epstein

Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka Yeshiva, Lithuania and is recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth century....
; from 1881 it was known as the Slobodka yeshivah. Subsequently there was opposition among the students to the Musar method, and in 1897 the yeshivah was divided into two; the followers of Musar established the Keneset Israel yeshivah, named after Israel Lipkin (Salanter), while its opponents founded the Keneset Bet Yitzchak yeshivah, named after Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor

Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor was a Jews of Russia rabbi, Posek and Talmudic sage of the 19th century....
.

Relocation to Palestine

A 1924 edict requiring enlistment in the military or supplementary secular studies in the yeshiva led a large number of its students to relocate to Hebron
Hebron

Hebron is the largest city in the West Bank, located in the south, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 166,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Israelis....
 under Rabbi Finkel's leadership, and the yeshiva was then headed by Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Sher. Hebron was chosen over Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 to avoid the influence of the conservative old yishuv
Old Yishuv

The Old Yishuv refers to the Jewish community that lived in Eretz Yisrael, from the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE to the First Aliyah in 1881, prior to the onset of Zionism....
. The Slabodka yeshiva ceased operation during the Holocaust
The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as , Churben is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler....
.

1929 Hebron massacre


24 students were murdered in the 1929 Hebron massacre
1929 Hebron massacre

The Hebron Massacre refers to the mass murder of sixty-seven Jews on 23 and 24 August, 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim holy places....
, and the yeshiva was reestablished in the Geula
Geula

Geula is a neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem, Israel populated mainly by Haredi Judaism Jews. Geula borders Mekor Baruch on the west, the Bukharim neighborhood on the north, Meah Shearim on the east and the Jerusalem city center on the south....
 neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Despite a delay after the death of Rabbi Moshe Hebroni, the last of the previous generation, the yeshiva moved into a new and larger campus in the south-central Giv'at Mordechai neighbourhood in 1975.

Prominent alumni

  • Rabbi Yehuda Amital
    Yehuda Amital

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  • Rabbi Yeruchem Meyer Lampert
  • Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky
  • Rabbi Zvi Block
  • Rabbi David Cohen
    David Cohen (rabbi)

    Rabbi David Cohen was a rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, and kabbala....
  • Rabbi Yeshayo Chalomish
  • Rabbi Aaron Tzvi Eisenberg
  • Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi
  • Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber
    Tzvi Hirsch Ferber

    Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber was a renowned Talmudic and Torah scholar, gifted orator, prolific author and tireless community builder. A man of outstanding knowledge and talent, he was an exemplar of old-world Lithuanian Torah scholarship and sagacity....
  • Rabbi Shlomo Goren
    Shlomo Goren

    Shlomo Goren , was an Orthodox Judaism Religious Zionism rabbi in Israel who founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel from 1973 to 1983....
  • Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky
  • Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner
    Yitzchok Hutner

    Yitzchok Hutner was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and American rosh yeshiva born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger Hasidic Judaism and non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews roots....
  • Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky
    Yaakov Kamenetsky

    Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky , was a prominent rosh yeshiva, posek and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community.He was born in the hamlet of Kalushkove, Lithuania, in 1891....
  • Rabbi Avraham Elya Kaplan
  • Rabbi Aharon Kotler
    Aharon Kotler

    Rabbi Aharon Kotler was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuanian Jews, and later the United States, where he built one of the first yeshivas in the US....
  • Rabbi Shneur Kotler
    Shneur Kotler

    Rabbi Shneur Kotler was the son of the famed Talmudic scholar Rabbi Aharon Kotler. Upon the death of his father in 1962, he became the rosh yeshiva of Lakewood yeshiva, a Lithuanian Jews-style Talmudic Haredi Judaism but non-Hasidic Judaism yeshiva in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, New Jersey....
  • Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz
  • Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz
    Dovid Leibowitz

    Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz was a leading rabbi and disciple of prewar Europe's Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania who went on to found the Rabbinical Seminary of America as its first Rosh yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York....
  • Rabbi/Professor Saul Lieberman
    Saul Lieberman

    Saul Lieberman , also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or The Gra"sh , was a rabbi and a scholar of Talmud. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over 40 years, and was for many years, head of the Harry Fischel Institute in Israel and also president of the American Academy for Jewish Research....
  • Rabbi Avigdor Miller
    Avigdor Miller

    Avigdor Miller was a Haredi Judaism rabbi, author and lecturer in the United States. He served simultaneously as a communal rabbi and as the mashgiach ruchani of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and as a teacher in Bais Yaakov for many years....
  • Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman
  • Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna
    Yechezkel Sarna

    Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna was the successor to Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel , the Alter of Slabodka yeshiva, as the spiritual mentor of that Yeshiva. He moved it from Europe to Hebron in 1925 and, following the Riots in Palestine of 1929 of 1929 to Jerusalem, later assuming the position of Rosh Yeshiva....
  • Rabbi Elazar Shach
    Elazar Shach

    Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach , was a leading Eastern European-born and educated Haredi Judaism rabbi who settled and lived in modern Israel....
  • 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....
  • Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin
    Zalman Sorotzkin

    Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin was a famous Orthodox Rabbi. He is also known as the "Lutzker Rav", as he served as the Rabbi of Lutsk, Poland....
  • Rabbi Selig Starr
    Selig Starr

    Rabbi Selig Starr born Zelig Starobinski was a 20th century talmudic scholar in Poland, Chicago and Jerusalem. As the instructor of the highest-level Shiur at Skokie, Illinois's Hebrew Theological College, he was responsible for most of Orthodox rabbinical students in the Chicago area over several decades....
  • Rabbi Naftoli Trop
    Naftoli Trop

    Rabbi Naftoli Trop was the Rosh yeshiva of Radun Yeshiva in Radun, Poland. He was a renowned Talmudist and Talmid Chacham.Early years...
  • Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg
    Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg

    Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg was a noted European Orthodox Judaism rabbi, posek and rosh yeshiva. He is best known as author of the work of History of Responsa Seridei Eish....
  • Professor Harry Austryn Wolfson
    Harry Austryn Wolfson

    Harry Austryn Wolfson was a scholar, philosopher, and historian at Harvard University, the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Department in the United States....
  • Rabbi Meyer Juzint
    Meyer Juzint

    Meyer Juzint, . Rabbi Meyer Juzint was a talmudic scholar and faculty member of the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, and the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, IL....
     of Ida Crown Jewish Academy
    Ida Crown Jewish Academy

    The Ida Crown Jewish Academy is an Orthodox Jewish high school in West Ridge, Chicago, Illinois overseen by the Associated Talmud Torahs. Its current Dean is Rabbi Dr....
  • Rabbi Nissan Yablonsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Hebrew Theological College
    Hebrew Theological College

    The Hebrew Theological College, also known as Beit HaMidrash LaTorah, also colloquially known as "Skokie Yeshiva," is a private university located in Skokie, Illinois, Illinois....
  • Rabbi Alter Polack
  • Rabbi Moshe Yakkov Mendelowitz
  • Elozor Reich


    • See also

    • 1929 Hebron massacre
      1929 Hebron massacre

      The Hebron Massacre refers to the mass murder of sixty-seven Jews on 23 and 24 August, 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim holy places....
    • Kovno Kollel
      Kovno kollel

      The Kovno Kollel also known as Kollel Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was a kollel located in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was founded in 1877 by Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter when the latter was 67....