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Encyclopedia > Dovid Leibowitz

Dovid Leibowitz (1889-1941) was a leading rabbi and disciple of prewar Europe's Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania who went on to found the Rabbinical Seminary of America as its first Rosh yeshiva (dean) in Brooklyn, New York. His son, Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz, heads the yeshiva today.


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Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim: Rabbinical Seminary of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1042 words)
The yeshiva was established in 1933 by Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel ("The Alter of Slabodka").
Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz founded the Chofetz Chaim yeshiva in the footsteps of his rebbe, the Alter of Slabodka, and Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the founder of the Mussar movement.
Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz, the current Rosh Yeshiva, continually reminds his students that as important as it is to become a lamden ("analytical scholar") and a great pedagogue, it is even more important to become a mentch ("a good human being").
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