Shimon Shkop

Shimon Yehuda Shkop (; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of Grodno. Having innovated a style of Torah study, Shkop also joined the chaburah of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik, "Chaim Brisker",

In 1903, he became rabbi of Malech (Малеч) (present day Belarus), and in 1907 of Bransk.

Death As the Russian army was about to enter Grodno during World War II, Shkop ordered his students to flee to Vilna. He himself died two days later, on the 9th of Cheshvan 5700 (1939) in Grodno. Shkop is buried in the Jewish cemetery in the Zaniemanski Forshtat section of Grodno.

Works His Sha'arei Yosher (1925), his most important work, is largely concerned with the intellectual principles by which the law is established, rather than with concrete laws, and is stylistically similar to the Shev Shema'tata of Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller, on which it was partly based.

Other major works include: Ma'arekhet ha-Kinyanim (1936) Novellae on tractates Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, and Bava Basra (1947) Novellae on Nedarim, Gittin, and Kiddushin (1952) Novellae on Yevamos and Ketuvot (1957)

Students Yitzchok Dov Koppelman Michoel Fisher Yisrael Zev Gustman Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman Shmuel Rozovsky Yechezkel Sarna Isser Yehuda Unterman Elchonon Wasserman