Shmuel Rozovsky

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Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky
Rozovsky and Avrohom Karelitz
Title	Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh Yeshiva
Personal
Born	1913 Grodno, Russian Empire
Died	1979
Religion	Judaism
Alma mater	Lomzha Yeshivah, Petach Tikvah
Position	Rosh yeshiva
Yeshiva	Ponovezh Yeshiva
Began	1944
Ended	1979

Shmuel Rozovsky (1913–1979) was Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel.^[1]

Rozovsky was born in Grodno, where his father Michel Dovid Rozovsky was the chief rabbi.^[2] His mother Sara Pearl was the daughter of Avraham Gelburd, the previous rabbi of Grodno.^[3]

He studied at the local Sha’ar Hatorah Yeshiva and was student of Shimon Shkop. He also studied with Yisroel Zev Gustman.^[2]

In 1935, after the death of his father, to escape being drafted into the Soviet Red 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.^[4]

In 1944, he became Rosh Yeshiva of the newly opened Ponovezh Yeshivah in Bnei Barak.^[2] Rozovsky placed a strong emphasis on Talmudic skills, and also stressed personal perfection^[5] and Mussar,^[1] 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

• Chiddushei Rabbi Shmuel
• Shiurei Rabbi Shmuel
• Zichron Shmuel