Eliyahu Boruch Finkel
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Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Finkel | |
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Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) | |
Ended | 2008 |
Eliyahu Boruch Finkel (25 December 1947 – March 31, 2008) was an influential maggid shiur (lecturer) at the
Biography
He was born in
He grew up under the tutelage of his grandfather, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda, and studied in Talmud Torah Yavneh. At the age of 10 he went to learn in Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi, a school named after his grandfather Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel. Half a year after his
While learning at the Mir, he became close with Rabbi
In recognition of Finkel's tremendous abilities, the roshei yeshiva appointed him to be a maggid shiur at a young age.
In the summer of 1967 he went to learn in the
After his tenure in Ponevezh, he returned to the Mir until his marriage to Chana Gelman, daughter of Rabbi Shlomo Gelman of Queens, New York.
Maggid shiur
His shiurim were characterized by profundity on the one hand and clarity on the other, even in the most complicated sugyos. He would analyze the words of the Rishonim intently and give over his shiur with excitement.[1] His students recall his simchas ha-chaim (positive, happy attitude) and the personal relationship he built with each of them.[2] His shiurim influenced the way of learning in the Mir specifically and in other yeshivos as well. Many of his students now say shiurim of their own and give over Rabbi Finkel's way of learning to the next generation of students and Torah scholars.
Before his death, Rabbi Finkel was delivering the second-largest shiur in the Mir, teaching hundreds of students.[3]
Rabbi Finkel died suddenly on 31 March 2008. His funeral took place the following morning in the main building of the yeshiva. Tens of thousands of mourners accompanied his bier to
References
- ^ Cohen, Rabbi Chaim (9 April 2008). "A Shabbos With Rav Finkel, A'H". Five Towns Jewish Times. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- ^ "Rav Eliyahu Boruch Finkel Zt"l – The Talmidim Unite". Five Towns Jewish Times. 25 February 2009. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- ^ Heimowitz, Rabbi Yehuda (9 November 2011). "Special Tribute Edition: One Father, Myriads of Orphans". Mishpacha. Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.