Eliezer Palczynski

Eliezer Manoach Palchinsky (; November 18, 1912 – October 6, 2007), also spelled Paltzinsky, Platchinsky and Platinsky, was a rosh yeshiva in Jerusalem for nearly 60 years.

Biography He was born on 28 Cheshvan 5673 (November 18, 1912) in the town of Vishki, Vitebsk Governorate, at the time in the Russian Empire, today in Latvia. His father, Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Palchinsky, was the av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of Vishki. Palchinsky's maternal grandfather was Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the Alter of Slabodka). During his teens, he learned for three years at Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1940. In addition to teaching in the yeshiva, Palchinsky delivered mussar (ethics) talks to students from Hebron Yeshiva and Mir Yeshiva. These students included Rabbi Aviezer Piltz, Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi,

He died on October 6, 2007, at the age of 94. He was buried on the Mount of Olives.

Works Palchinsky published two Talmudic works, one on Seder Nashim and one on Seder Moed, each entitled Shalom Yehuda in memory of his father. He also left unpublished writings.