Leibel Tropper

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Rabbi Leibel Tropper was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn where his parents sent him to a number of yeshivas. After finishing high school he spent a few years getting smicha and then spent a few years travelling the globe getting smicha again from other types of rabbis. Finally he got a job at Shema Yisrael Yeshiva and then at Ohr Somayach Yeshiva in Jerusalem. In 1980 he moved to Monsey, NY and helped found a branch of Ohr Somayach Monsey there before they asked him to leave and he started his own yeshiva, Kol Yaakov Torah Center.