Dov Yaffe (; 1928–2017) was a

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-born Israeli

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, and leader of the Musar movement.

Youth

He was born at

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in June 1928. In 1935, at age 7, he moved with his parents to the

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and settled in

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where he studied at and afterward at the

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, Ponevezh, and Slabodka yeshivos.

Career

He became the assistant to Rabbi

Elyah Lopian Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian (; 1876 – 21 September 1970), known as Reb Elyah, was a rabbi of the Mussar Movement. Biography Lopian was born in Grajewo, Poland in 1876 and studied at the yeshiva in Łomża and at the Kelm Talmud Torah of Rabbi Si ...

at the

Knesses Chizkiyahu Knesses Chizkiyahu was one of the first Litvak yeshivas founded after the establishment of the State of Israel and one of the first Torah institutions in the northern part of the country. Founded in Zikhron Ya'akov in 1949, it relocated to Kfar ...

yeshiva which relocated to

Rekhasim Rekhasim ()Marks, Yehudah. "The Torah Empire of the North", ''Hamodia'' Israel News, 19 March 2015, pp. 21-23. is a Haredi town in the Haifa District of Israel. It is located between Kiryat Tiv'on, Kiryat Ata, and Nesher, next to roads 70, 7 ...

in Northern Israel in 1955. While based in Rekhasim, he taught Musar to thousands of students in Knesses Chizkiyahu, in

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, and in in

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Family

He was married to Rivka and had six children.

Final illness and death

Prior to his death, he was hospitalized at Laniado Hospital in

Kiryat Sanz, Netanya Kiryat Sanz (, also spelled Kiriat Tzanz) is a Haredi neighborhood located at the northwestern end of Netanya, Israel. Founded in 1956 by the previous Klausenburger Rebbe, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, who established his court there in 1960 ...

. He died on November 8, 2017, at age 89.

Works

His writings were published in ''Divrei Chachamim'' and other '' s'farim''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yaffe, Dov 1928 births 2017 deaths Haredi rabbis in Israel Haredi writers Hebrew-language writers Israeli writers Lithuanian Haredi rabbis Mashgiach ruchani Ponevezh Yeshiva alumni Jewish writers from Vilnius Writers of Musar literature Israeli people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine