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Epstein, Aharon Zelig, 1914-2009

‏עפשטיין, אהרן זליג, הלוי


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    • Epstein, Zelik, 1914-2009
    • Epstein, Zelig, 1914-2009
    • Epshṭain, Aharon Zelig, ha-Leṿi
    • Epshṭain, Zelig, 1914-2009
    • ‏עפשטיין, אהרן זליג, הלוי
    • אפשטיין, אהרן זליג
    • ‏עפשטיין, זעליג

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    • Birth Date

        1914-07-10

    • Death Date

        2009-08-03

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Epshṭain, Aharon Zelig, ha-Leṿi

  • Sources

    • found: Ḳovets ḥidushe Torah, 2010:t.p. (הרב אהרן זליג הלוי עפשטיין, זצוק"ל, ראש ישיבת שער התורה -- גרודנה = ha-Rav Aharon Zelig ha-Leṿi Epshṭain, z. ts. ṿe-ḳ.l., rosh Yeshivat Shaʻar ha-Torah -- Grodnoh)
    • found: Sefer Zekher Shelomoh, 2007:t.p. (מרן הגאון רבי זעליג עפשטיין, שליט"א = maran ha-gaʼon Rabi Zelig ʻEpshṭain, sheliṭa)
    • found: English Wikipedia, viewed September 20, 2022(Zelik Epstein, also known as Zelig Epstein (full name Aharon Zelig Epstein) (July 10, 1914 - August 3, 2009), was a prominent Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno, a private Talmudical institution in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, containing a high school, Beis Midrash, and Kollel. Epstein was considered by many to be the last of the Gedolim of his generation. He was born in Slonim, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, on July 10, 1912. He studied in Mir, and escaped with the yeshiva to Shanghai during World War II. After the war, he and other refugees traveled to Canada, and en route to Montreal, stopped in Toronto, where he met Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, then a rabbi in Toronto. Rabbi Kamenetsky was impressed by him and later called him back to Toronto where he was given a teaching position in the Talmud Torah and yeshiva. When Rabbi Kamenetsky moved to New York and was appointed rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Rabbi Epstein followed and became a teacher there as well. After leaving Torah Vodaath, he was appointed rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah- Grodno in Queens, named for the yeshiva in Grodno of his wife's grandfather, Rabbi Shimon Shkop)
    • found: Hebrew Wikipedia, viewed September 20, 2022(אהרו זליג אפשטיין = Aharon Zelig Epshṭain; הרב אהרן זליג הלוי אפשטיין = ha-Rav Aharon Zelig Haleṿi Epshṭain; born: ט"ז בתמוז ה'תרע"ד = July 10, 1914 ; died: י"ב באב ה'תשס"ט = August 03, 2009 (age 95) and is buried in Har ha-zetim; Rosh Yeshivah of American--Liṭaʼi; Rosh Yeshivah of "Shaʻar ha-Torah" in Queens)
    • found: BillionGraves WWW, viewed September 20, 2022(Zelik Epstein: July 10, 1914 - August 03, 2009)

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  • Change Notes

    • 2013-05-13: new
    • 2022-09-20: revised

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