Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel | |
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Title | Rosh Yeshivas Mir |
Personal | |
Born | Eliezer Yehuda Finkel September 16, 1965 |
Religion | Judaism |
Nationality | Israeli |
Parent(s) | Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel Rachel Leah Finkel |
Denomination | Haredi |
Jewish leader | |
Predecessor | Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel |
Position | Rav |
Synagogue | Mir Yeshiva Jerusalem |
Position | Rosh yeshiva |
Yeshiva | Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) |
Position | Rosh Yeshiva |
Organisation | Mir Yeshiva Jerusalem |
Began | 2011 |
Residence | Jerusalem, Israel |
Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (also called Leizer Yudel Finkel) [1] is a Haredi Jewish rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, [2] [3] which is considered to be the largest yeshiva in Israel with a student body of 6,000 students. [4] He acceded to the position of rosh yeshiva after his father, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, died suddenly on 8 November 2011. [5]
Finkel was named after his maternal great-grandfather, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, who became rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir yeshiva in Poland in 1917 and re-established the yeshiva in Jerusalem during World War II while the main body of the yeshiva was in exile in the Far East. His great-great-grandfather was the Mussar movement leader Nosson Tzvi Finkel.