Shmuel Rozovsky
{{short description|Israeli rabbi}}
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| name = Shmuel Rozovsky
שמואל רוזובסקי
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| birth_date = 1913
| birth_place = Grodno, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death year and age|1979|1913}}
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| alma_mater = Lomzha Yeshivah, Petach Tikvah
| title = Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh Yeshiva
| began = 1944
| ended = 1979
| yeshiva = Ponovezh Yeshiva
| yeshivaposition = Rosh yeshiva
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Shmuel Rozovsky ({{Langx|he|שמואל רוזובסקי}}; 1913–1979) was Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel.{{cite web |url=http://www.hamodia.com/inthepaper.cfm?ArticleID=288 |title=Hamodia - the Daily Newspaper of Torah Jewry |website=www.hamodia.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721144108/http://www.hamodia.com/inthepaper.cfm?ArticleID=288 |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}
Biography
= Early life =
Rozovsky was born in Grodno, where his father Michel Dovid Rozovsky was the chief rabbi.{{Cite web |last=Safier |first=Dovi |date=11 May 2021 |title=Everyone's Rosh Yeshiva: The Life of Rav Shmuel Rozovsky |url=https://mishpacha.com/everyones-rosh-yeshivah/ |website=Mishpacha Magazine}}
His mother Sara Pearl was the daughter of Avraham Gelburd, the previous rabbi of Grodno.{{Cite web|url=http://matzav.com/todays-yahrtzeits-history-27-tammuz/|title=Today's Yahrtzeits & History – 27 Tammuz | Matzav.com|date=July 20, 2009}}
He studied at the local Sha’ar Hatorah Yeshiva and was student of Shimon Shkop. He also studied with Yisroel Zev Gustman.
In 1935, after the death of his father, to escape being drafted into the Polish army, Rozovsky fled to British-ruled Palestine, where he studied in the Lomzha Yeshivah in Petach Tikvah, married the daughter of Tzvi Pesach Frank (Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem) and taught in the Lomzha Yeshiva.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pages/shapiro.html|title=Shapiro Family|website=www.eilatgordinlevitan.com}}
= Ponevezh Yeshiva =
In 1944, he became Rosh Yeshiva of the newly opened Ponovezh Yeshivah in Bnei Barak.
Rozovsky placed a strong emphasis on Talmudic skills, and also stressed personal perfection{{Cite web|url=http://dafyomireview.com/article.php?docid=233|title = Daf Yomi Review - for dafyomi, amud yomi, mishnayos, Torah, rambam}} and Mussar, as well as the need to study other facets of Torah including Chumash with the commentaries of Rashi and Nachmanides.
His students included:
- Gershon Edelstein of Ponevezh yeshiva (Bnei Brak)
- Asher Arieli of Yeshivas Mir
- Aharon Pfeuffer, Rosh Yeshiva in London and Johannesburg, and authority on kashrut
Works
- Chiddushei Rabbi Shmuel
- Shiurei Rabbi Shmuel
- Zichron Shmuel
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Category:Haredi rabbis in Israel