Shmuel Rozovsky

Shmuel Rozovsky (; 1913–1979) was Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel.

Biography Early life Rozovsky was born in Grodno, where his father Michel Dovid Rozovsky was the chief rabbi. His mother Sara Pearl was the daughter of Avraham Gelburd, the previous rabbi of Grodno.

He studied at the local Sha’ar Hatorah Yeshiva and was student of Shimon Shkop. He also studied with Yisroel Zev Gustman.

Ponevezh Yeshiva In 1944, he became Rosh Yeshiva of the newly opened Ponovezh Yeshivah in Bnei Barak. and Mussar, as well as the need to study other facets of Torah including Chumash with the commentaries of Rashi and Nachmanides.

His students included: Gershon Edelstein of Ponevezh yeshiva (Bnei Brak) Asher Arieli of Yeshivas Mir Aharon Pfeuffer, Rosh Yeshiva in London and Johannesburg, and authority on kashrut Binyomin Moskowitz of Midrash Shmuel (Jerusalem) (Yeshiva named after R' Shmuel Rozovsky)

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