Nosson Tzvi Finkel was an influential Lithuanian Jewish leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe and founder of the Slabodka yeshiva, in the town of Sloboda Vilyampolskaya. He is also known by the
Alter of Slabodka
Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, tended by his yeshiva students, in the British Mandate of Palestine in his last years.
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, also known as Reb Leizer Yudel Finkel, was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in both its Polish and Jerusalemic incarnations.
Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)
…dandies. He would send teams of his trained prized pupils to places that needed a boost in religious observance and learning of Torah. His own son, Eliezer Yehudah (Leizer Yudel) Finkel eventually became the head of the far older Mir yeshiva, eventually leading it all the way to Jerusalem where it is today the…
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel
The Mir yeshiva in the Beth Aharon Synagogue, Shanghai