Yechezkel Sarna

Yechezkel Sarna (; 1890–1969) was a disciple of Nosson Tzvi Finkel, spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva. He was sent by Finkel to move the yeshiva from Europe to Hebron in 1925, and following the 1929 Hebron massacre, to Jerusalem. In 1934, he became rosh yeshiva (dean).

Early years Sarna was born in Horodok, Russia, on 28 Shevat in 1890. His father, Yaakov Chaim, was the city's shochet (kosher slaughterer) and melamed, (schoolteacher and later its maggid (preacher). Sarna's mother, Aidel, was the daughter of Shlomo Zalman Buxenbaum, a hassid of the Chiddushei Harim, and author of Rechovos Ir, a commentary on Midrash Rabba.

When he was 11 he was sent to the Ohr Hachaim yeshiva in Slabodka, headed by Tzvi Levitan, a student of l Simcha Zissel Ziv. In the beginning of 1927, the Alter fell seriously ill, and Sarna began to deliver musar discourses in the yeshiva.

Works Rearrangement of the Kuzari by Rav. Sarna, Transl. Rabbi Avraham Davis; Metsudah 1986 Iyunim on Mesilat Yesharim available at http://hebrewbooks.org/41769 Daliot Yechezkel