Refael Shapiro
Rabbi Refael Shapiro
Rabbi Refael Shapiro (1837–1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netziv). After the Volozhin yeshiva was closed down in 1892 by order of the Russian government, he reopened it, albeit on a smaller scale in 1899. He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk and is known as the Toras Refael after his primary work.
Rabbi Shapiro ordained Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman (who would eventually become one of Israel's chief rabbis) who studied in the Kollel of the Volozhin yeshiva before opening his own yeshiva in the neighboring town of vishnyeva(vishnevo,Belarus). Additionally, Rabbi Shapiro gave Semicha (rabbinical ordination) to Rabbi Moshe Shatzkes, known as the Łomża Rov, and Rabbi Meir Joshua Rosenberg.
Rabbi Shapiro died on the 23rd of the Jewish month of Adar in 1921.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Rabbi Yosef Dov (Reb Berel) Soloveitchik | | | Rabbi Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik | | | | Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, Co-Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Rabbi Meshulam Dovid (Reb Dovid) Soloveitchik | | | Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik | | | | Rabbi Mayer Lichtenstein, Rabbi ohel menachem Bet Shemesh | | | | | | | | | | |
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Rabbi Yosef Dov (HaLevi) Soloveitchik author of Beis HaLevi | | Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik "Reb Chaim Brisker" | | | Rabbi Yitzchak Zev (Reb Velvel) Soloveitchik "The GRIZ" The Brisker Rov | | | Lifsha Soloveitchik Feinstein | | | | Dr. Tovah Soloveitchik Lichtenstein | | | | | Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt | | | | | | | | | |
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Rabbi Refael Shapiro, Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin yeshiva | | Lifsha Shapiro
| | | | | | | | Rabbi Refoel Soloveitchik | | | | Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein | | | | Tzipporah Rosenblatt | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik | | | | Dr. Atarah Soloveitchik Twersky | | | | Rabbi Mosheh Twersky, Maggid Shiur at Yeshiva Toras Moshe | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. (Yosef Dov) Soloveitchik "The Rav" | | | | Rabbi Dr. Isadore Twersky, Talner Rebbe of Boston | | | | Rabbi Mayer Twersky, Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik | | | Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik | | | | | Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik | | | | Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik, Rosh Yeshivas Brisk (Chicago); Rav of Kehilas Beth Sholom Ahavas Achim | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | Peshka Feinstein Soloveichik | | | Dr. Samuel Soloveichik | | | | | | | | | | Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveichik, Maggid Shiur at Lander College's Beis Medrash L'Talmud | | Rabbi Meir Yaakov Soloveichik | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Shulamit Soloveitchik Meiselman | | | Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Moshe | | | | Rabbi Yosef Soloveichik | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anne Soloveitchik Gerber | | | | | | | | | Rabbi Chayim Soloveichik, Maggid Shiur at Yeshivat Reishit; Morah D’Asrah of Kehillat Ohr Sholom, Ramat Beit Shemesh | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | Rabbi Yisroel Gershon Soloveitchik | | | Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik | | | | Rabbi Boruch Soloveitchik | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Daughter Soloveitchik, Wife of Rabbi Shlomo Zev Karlibach | | | | | | |
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