Mir Yeshiva (Jerusalem)

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Mir Yeshiva
ישיבת מיר‎
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel
Enrollment9,600

The Mir Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת מיר, Yeshivat Mir), known also as The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem. With over 9,000 single and married students,[1] it is the largest yeshiva in the world.[2][3][4] Most students are from the United States, United Kingdom and Israel, with many from other parts of the world such as Belgium, France, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, Australia, Russia, Canada and Panama.

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History

The yeshiva was founded in the small town of

Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, son of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel
of Slabodka, who in time became the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir. The yeshiva remained in that location until 1914.

With the outbreak of

invaded Poland
in 1939.

Although many of the foreign-born students left when the Soviet army invaded from the east, the yeshiva continued to operate—albeit on a reduced scale—until the approaching German armies caused the leaders of the yeshiva to move the entire community to Keidan, Lithuania. The yeshiva moved en masse on October 15 to Vilna in order to get out from under Russian rule and into then-free Lithuania. Russia had announced that it was returning Vilna to Lithuania. Until that was completed, they could go to Vilna by crossing a border.

Establishment in Jerusalem

Simchat Beit HaShoeivah celebration, 2006

Around this time, Rabbi

Eretz Yisrael, but these plans were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. In 1944, Rabbi Finkel opened a branch of the yeshiva in Jerusalem with ten students, among them Rabbi Yudel Shapiro (later Rosh Kollel Chazon Ish), Rabbi Chaim Brim (later Rosh Yeshiva of Rizhn-Boyan), and Rabbi Chaim Greineman.[11]

In Europe, as the Nazi armies continued to push to the east, the yeshiva students fled to (

Japanese-controlled) Shanghai, China
, where they remained until the end of the war.

The story of the escape to the Far East of Mir Yeshiva, along with thousands of other

Shanghai ghetto left for Palestine and the United States. Among them were survivors from the Mir Yeshiva, many of whom rejoined the yeshiva in Jerusalem. Rabbi Finkel's son, Rabbi Chaim Zev Finkel (commonly called Chazap), served as mashgiach.[13][circular reference
]

When Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel died on July 19, 1965, his son, Rabbi

Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, was named as his successor.[14]

Chaburas

Under Rabbi

Yiddish to over 1000 students.[citation needed
]

Mir Brachfeld

Main article: Mir Brachfeld

The yeshiva has a branch in

Eliezer Yehuda Finkel and son of Rabbi Chaim Zev Finkel[13][circular reference
]) until his passing on Aug. 9, 2016. His oldest son, Rabbi Binyomin Finkel, took over as Rosh Yeshiva.

Leadership

Past leadership

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ Beyda, Rabbi Yehuda (2012). "Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel z.s.l." Community Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 December 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Jerusalem – Torah Chigri Sak! Hagaon Harav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Zt"l". Vos Iz Neias?. 8 November 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  3. ^
    Ami
    , October 23, 2013, pp. 44-53.
  4. ^ Ettinger, Yair (9 November 2011). "Some 100,000 attend funeral of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel". Haaretz. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  5. ^ חוברת של קרן התורה, וינה, תרפ"ה, עמ' 6
  6. ^ משה יהודה ליב גאלדבערג, תולדות הגאון ר' חיים יהודה ליב ז"ל, ווארשא, תרס"ב, עמ' 7. Rabbi Goldberg was a grandson of Mir's 2nd rosh yeshiva, R. Avraham Tiktinsky and a great-grandson of the yeshiva founder, R. Shmuel Tiktinsky.
  7. ^ ר' יוסף ד. עפשטיין, "ישיבת מיר" בתוך ר' ד"ר שמואל ק. מירסקי (עורך), מוסדות תורה באירופה בבנינם ובחורבנם, ניו יורק, תשט"ז, עמ' 87
  8. ^ ר' משה צינוביץ, "לתולדות ישיבת מיר" בתוך נ. בלומנטל (עורך), ספר מיר, ירושלים, תשכ"ג, עמ' 99
  9. ^ ר' משה צינוביץ, תולדות ישיבת מיר, תל אביב, תשמ"א, עמ' 1
  10. ^ Receipt from the yeshiva dated 1931 that lists the year established as 1817 Archived 2017-04-04 at the Wayback Machine (also see a full discussion re: the year founded at פורום אוצר החכמה: בקשת עזרה: שנת ייסוד ישיבת מיר)
  11. ^ Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmulevitz: by Eliahu Meir Klugman
  12. ^ Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness
  13. ^ a b Aryeh Finkel
  14. ^ Ben Gedalyahu, Tzvi (8 November 2011). "Mir Yeshiva Rabbi Finkel Passes Away". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  15. ^ "Beyond Space and Time". Mishpacha Magazine. 2020-09-16. Retrieved 2021-01-05.

Bibliography

  • Toldot Yeshivat Mir, Zinowitz, M., Tel Aviv, 1981.

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