Description: Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein 27 June 1906 17 May 2003 was a Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Israel and the United States. Feinstein,the son of Avrohom Yitzchok Feinstein, was born in Uzda, Lithuania, then part of the Russian empire. His father died when he was seven and he went to live with his grandfather, Dovid Feinstein, the rabbi of Starobin, Belarus. His uncle was reb Moshe Feinstein. He went to Slutsk after his bar mitzvah to study under reb Isser Zalman Meltzer. When the Bolsheviks seized power Meltzer's yeshiva fled to Kletsk, Poland. During his three years in Kletsk,Feinstein attended the Talmudic lectures of Meltzer and his son-in-law, reb Aharon Kotler. Then he transferred to the Mir Yeshiva where hestudied with reb Yeruchom Lebovitz Rabbi Feinstein studied in Brisk under reb Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik. While there he became subject to conscription into the army, so he traveled to Grodno to obtain fake medical forms from a doctor and enroute, consulted with reb Yisrael Meir Kagan (the Chofetz Chaim) in Radin about evading the draft.Feinstein stayed in Grodno for half a year, where he studied under reb Shimon Shkop. He then returned to Brisk to continue studying under the brisker rov, spending the summer months at the Mir Yeshiva. When WorldWar II broke out, he traveled to Vilna with other students from the Mir. From Vilna rabbi Feinstein joined the Mir Yeshiva in exile in Japan.He arrived in the United States in 1941 with Aharon Kotler. Feinstein was mashgiach for reb Joseph B. Soloveitchik in Boston. Less than a year later he joined his uncle, reb Moshe Feinstein, as the head of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. He was appointed a member of the Agudas HaRabbonim and assisted the Vaad Hatzolah in rescuing Jews and aiding the war refugees in Europe. Israel In 1946, rabbi Feinstein visited Palestine and in August married Lifsha, the daughter of his former teacher Soloveitchik,in Jerusalem. He returned to America and continued as rosh yeshiva until 1952, when he and his family immigrated to Israel and he established Yeshivas Beis Yehuda in Tel Aviv. In 1973 after the death of one of his daughters Feinstein moved to Bnei Brak. He died on the night of 17 May 2003 (16 Iyar 5763).
Price: 499 USD
Location: Brooklyn, New York
End Time: 2025-01-07T18:20:17.000Z
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Written to: Reb Moshe Feinstein
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Signed: Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein
Religion: Judaism
