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    Yosef Chaim Shneur Kotler (1918 – 24 June 1982) was an Ashkenazi Orthodox rabbi from the Lithuanian movement and rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha (also...
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    succeeded by his son, Shneur Kotler, as rosh yeshiva (dean). As of 2011, Beth Medrash Govoha is run by his grandson, Malkiel Kotler, and three of his grandsons-in-law...
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  • surgeon Shlomo Nosson Kotler (1856–c. 1920), Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva, Talmudic scholar, Torah author, and posek Shneur Kotler (1918–1982), Orthodox...
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  • Aryeh Malkiel Kotler was born to Shneur Kotler and his wife, Rischel (née Friedman). He is the second of 9 children. The elder Kotler was the rosh yeshiva...
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    Moshe Shisgal (son in law of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein), Abba Berman, and Shneur Kotler. He is married to Shalva, who is the daughter of Rabbi Dov Schwartzman...
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    Haredi Jews Malkiel Kotler (born 1951), current rosh yeshiva of BMG Shneur Kotler (1918–1982), rosh yeshiva (dean) of BMG Cliff Kresge (born 1968), professional...
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    or twenty and I will pay for them!” Beyond Rabbi Aharon Kotler and his son Rabbi Shneur Kotler, Wolfson maintained a close relationship with other important...
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    Orthodox Jewish pioneer in America Semyon Kosberg – Jewish Soviet engineer Shneur Kotler – rosh yeshiva, Lakewood yeshiva Harry Lefrak – father of Samuel J....
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    Kollel established by the Lakewood Yeshiva under the direction of Rabbi Shneur Kotler and Rabbi Nosson Wachtfogel. The Kollel consists of a core group of...
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  • Kamenetsky Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook Rabbi Aharon Kotler Rabbi Shneur Kotler Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein Rabbi Dov...
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    Kotler served as the academic and spiritual leader of the institution, from 1943 until his passing in 1962. He was succeeded by Rabbi Shneur Kotler,...
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  • Medrash Govoha. He received his rabbinic ordination in 1979 from Rabbi Shneur Kotler. His brother, Rabbi Binyomin Luban is the rosh yeshiva in Yeshiva Chafetz...
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    yeshiva: Rabbis Aharon Kotler, Shneur Kotler, and Malkiel Kotler. Even as mashgiach, he acted more like a student of Rabbi Kotler, attending the rosh yeshiva's...
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  • yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha, Rabbi Shneur Kotler, who was the son of the founding rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Aharon Kotler. Donn, Yochonon. "Hagaon Harav Eliyahu...
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  • in Jerusalem, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein of Bnei Brak, and Rabbi Shneur Kotler at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he was a study partner...
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    Hutner, rosh yeshiva, Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin (Brooklyn, New York) Shneur Kotler, rosh yeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha (Lakewood, New Jersey) Dov Landau...
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    Israel of America, Rabbi Herman Neuberger, Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Shneur Kotler, Rav Boruch Sorotzkin, Rav Gedalia Schorr, Rav Aaron Schechter, and...
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    yeshiva of Telz-Cleveland Aharon Kotler, founder and rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, New Jersey Shneur Kotler, rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash...
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  • systems. Aryeh Leib Baron Shmuel Berenbaum Henoch Fishman Tovia Goldstein Shneur Kotler Aryeh Leib Malin Nochum Partzovitz Dovid Povarsky Moshe Schwab Moshe...
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    Finkel. He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Aharon Kotler and maternal grandfather of Rabbi Shneur Kotler. He and Rav Aharon fled from Russia to Poland at...
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    generation, including Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, the Satmar Rebbe, and Rabbi Shneur Kotler. His casket was then flown to London, where his students in England...
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    Yitzchak Hutner Yaakov Kamenetsky Chaim Mordechai Katz Aharon Kotler (Chairman) Shneur Kotler Avrohom Chaim Levine Avraham Yaakov Pam Nochum Mordechai Perlow...
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  • Yechezkel Landau (1713–1793), Noda Bihudah Vilna Gaon (1720–1797), Gra Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), Shulchan Aruch HaRav Avraham Danzig (1748–1820)...
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  • the tutelage of Rabbi Berel Soloveitchik. He also studied under Rabbi Shneur Kotler and Rabbi Nosson Wachtfogel, and received smicha (rabbinic ordination)...
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    at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ under the tutelage of Rabbi Shneur Kotler. He married a daughter of the Mohel of Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef Dovid...
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  • early 1940s he studied together with other scholars such as rabbis Shneur Kotler, Chaim Kreiswirth, and Elazar Goldschmidt. In 1944 he married Ettel...
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  • revitalized the small Orthodox community of Passaic. In 1973 Rabbi Shneur Kotler, rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha, Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel,...
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  • prize for Music. 1955 Ephraim Urbach Jewish studies Isaac Heinemann Zalman Shneur Literature Yitzhak Lamdan Michael Fekete Exact sciences Israel Reichert...
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    Kalmanowitz and Aaron Kotler of the Vaad Hatzalah. In return, Schneersohn was critical of the efforts of rabbis Kalmanowitz and Kotler based on the suspicion...
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    to other great mekubalim (mystics) such as the Baal Shem Tov, the Ari, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbitz and many other great Hasidic...
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