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unusual facts about Brisk yeshivas



Aryeh Levin

He was tutored by local teachers until the age of 12, and then left home to attend the great yeshivas of Slonim, Slutsk, Volozhin and Brisk.

Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik

Rabbi Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik (sometimes Avraham) (born 1949) is the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Brisk, one of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, Israel that admits only a select few elite Talmudic students from the United States.


see also

Berel

Berel Soloveitchik, a leading Rosh Yeshiva ("head of the yeshiva") of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, Israel