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3 unusual facts about Yechezkel Sarna


Yechezkel Sarna

In 1902, he journeyed to Maltsch to study under Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro, who also presided as the Chief Rabbi of the city.

Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna (1890–1969) was a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, (known as the "Alter (elder) of Slabodka"), spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva.

When he was 11, he was sent to the Ohr Hachaim yeshiva in Slabodka, headed by Rabbi Tzvi Levitan, a student of the Alter of Kelm.



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