Letter Fully Written By Mashgiach Mir & Ponevezh Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein for Sale

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Letter Fully Written By Mashgiach Mir & Ponevezh Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein:
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Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein (RavYechezkel HaLevi Levenstein),known as Reb Chatzkel, (1885 – 18 Adar 1974), was the mashgiach ruchani of the Mir yeshiva, in Mir, Belarus and during the yeshiva\'s flight to Lithuania and on to Shanghai due to the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II. He was a leader of several yeshivas in Europe, America, and Israel, and raised several generations of Torah-observant Jewry.He was a disciple of R\' Nachum ZevZiv son of R\' Simcha Zissel Ziv.

Biography Rabbi Levenstein was born in Warsaw (5656) His mother, Zlota, died when he was just five yearsold; his father, Reb Yehuda, subsequently remarried.He studied for 2+1⁄2 years in the yeshiva in Łomża, where he was imbued with mussar, then in Raduń Yeshiva under the Chofetz Chaim and thefamous mashgiach Rav Yeruchom Levovitz, and finally in Kelm. His rebbetzin, Chaya, was an orphan.He had \"rejected glowing offers made to him by wealthy men who wanted himfor their daughters\" saying they would \"be unable to share a life ofprivation and restraint and of subsisting on the bare essentials.\"From 5695 (1935), for about 2 yearshe served as mashgiach of Yeshivas Lomza in PetachTikvah, \"despite the very difficult, poverty stricken life he led inPetach Tikvah.\" His impact was not only on the yeshivabut on some students who became \"well known roshei yeshiva.\"[5][7][8] Shanghai News reached Shanghai Adar 5703 (1943), where the Mir spentthe war years, of the murders of so many of Lithuanian Jewry. The eulogy of themartyrs by the mashgiach waspublished in a book, Mimizrach Shemesh.[9] Yeshivos The Yeshivos that he founded or strongly influenced include:[10] · Before World War II · Mir Yeshiva (Poland), as MashgiachRuchani · After the War · Mir Yeshivah (Yerushalayim) · Ponovezh Yeshivah (B\'nei Brak) Works · Or Yechezkel, a seven volume[10] work of musar