Yitzhak from Volozhin (Known as Rabbi Itzele , 1780 , Volozhin - 1849 in Ivenets , Minsk Province ) - 2nd head of the Volozhin Yeshiva , leader of the Jewishness of Lithuania and Belarus. Son r. Chaim from Volozhin .
| Yitzhak from Valozhyn | |
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| Yitzhak bin Chaim Volozhiner | |
| Date of Birth | 1780 |
| Place of Birth | Volozhin |
| Date of death | 1849 |
| Place of death | Ivenets , Minsk Province , Russian Empire |
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Biography
At the age of 10, he was honored to see Vilensky Gaon during one of his father’s visits to him, despite his father’s attempts to dissuade his son. He began to teach in yeshiva during his father’s life. After his death in 1821 he headed the yeshiva. In 1824, by government decree, the yeshiva was closed, however p. Yitzhak continued to teach in it. In 1843 he took part in a government-imposed conference on education along with r. Menachem Mendel Schneerson from Lubavitchi ( Tzemakh Zedek ) and Israel Halperin from Berdichev , where he sharply opposed the opening of public schools for Jews. In 1849, Rabbi Izele went to Minsk for treatment, but died on the way back to the town of Ivenets , without having reached Volozhin. After his death, his son-in-law Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin and Yosef Dov Soloveichik stood at the head of the yeshiva.
Most famous students
- Rav Shmuel Salant is the chief rabbi of Jerusalem .
Interesting Facts
Rabbi Yitzhak from Volozhin was extremely pedantic in matters of speech purity, carefully monitored himself not to say a bad word about anyone. And then one day he was forced to call one person a liar. Protecting himself from uttering an “unclean” word, the rabbi said:
“This man has an amazing memory. There are people who can recall the events of a decade ago; there are owners of such a wonderful memory that they can easily reproduce what happened twenty or even fifty years ago. But this man has a truly amazing memory: he remembers that which never happened! ” [1]
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Links
- Yitzhak from Volozhin - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
- JewishGen-Jewish Genealogy