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'' of the

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alongside Rabbis

Dov Landau Dov Lando (; born 5 April 1930) is the ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Slabodka yeshiva (Bnei Brak), Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak along with Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, a rabbi of Chug Chazon Ish, and a member of the directorate of the Board of Yeshivas ...

and

Moshe Hillel Hirsch Moshe Hillel Hirsch (; born Milton Hirsch October 26, 1936) is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Slabodka in Bnei Brak, Israel. He is a native of the United States who studied at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood under the Talmudic tutelage of Rabbi Ah ...

.''Hamodia''. Dec 5, 2012. p. D40.

Biography

Rabbi Zaks was born on October 30, 1926, in Jerusalem to Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Zalman and Esther Leah Zaks. His mother was the daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Friedman and the sister of Rabbi Mendel Friedman, son-in-law of Rabbi

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. Rabbi Zaks was a student of Rabbi

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. In 1947, he traveled to Bnei Brak where he studied at the Slabodka yeshiva under Rabbi Isaac Sher. In 1952 he was engaged to be married with Rabbi Sher's eldest granddaughter, the daughter of his son-in-law, Rabbi Mordechai Shulman, ''rosh yeshiva'' of Slabodka. The wedding took place in March 1952, shortly after the death of Rabbi Sher (who died in February 1952). Several years after his marriage, his father-in-law appointed him to deliver ''

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im'' at Slabodka. More than 20 years before Rabbi Amram died, he suffered a

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from which he never fully recovered.''Hamodia''. Dec 5, 2012. p. D41. Rabbi Zaks died on December 30, 2012. Tens of thousands attended his funeral, where he was eulogized by Rabbis Landau and Hirsch of the Slabodka yeshiva as well as by the

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Baruch Dov Povarsky Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky (born August 17, 1931), often referred to as Rabbi Berel Povarsky, is rosh yeshiva of one of the two divisions of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel. He served alongside Rabbi Gershon Edelstein in this role until ...

, by Rabbi

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(a student of Rabbi Amram), and by Rabbi Amram's son, Rabbi Simchah Shmuel Zaks.

References

1926 births 2012 deaths Israeli rosh yeshivas Academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva Etz Chaim Yeshiva (Jerusalem) alumni {{Israel-rabbi-stub