Rabbi
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel
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Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (December 2015)
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| Title | Rosh Yeshivas Mir |
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| Born | Eliezer Yehuda Finkel September 16, 1965 |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Parent(s) | Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel Rachel Leah Finkel |
| Denomination | Haredi |
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| Predecessor | Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel |
| Position | Rav |
| Synagogue | Mir Yeshiva Jerusalem |
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) |
| Position | Rosh Yeshiva |
| Organisation | Mir Yeshiva Jerusalem |
| Began | 2011 |
| Residence | Jerusalem, Israel |
Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (also called Leizer Yudel Finkel) [1] is a Haredi Jewish rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir YeshivainJerusalem,[2][3] which is considered to be the largest yeshiva in Israel with a student body of 6,000 students.[4] He acceded to the position of rosh yeshiva after his father, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, died suddenly on 8 November 2011.[5]
Finkel was named after his maternal great-grandfather, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, who became rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir yeshiva in Poland in 1917 and re-established the yeshiva in Jerusalem during World War II while the main body of the yeshiva was in exile in the Far East. His great-great-grandfather was the Mussar movement leader Nosson Tzvi Finkel.
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Mir Yeshiva
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| Faculty in Mir, Belarus |
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| Faculty in Jerusalem, Israel |
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| Faculty in Modi'in Illit, Israel |
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