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Valozhyn or
Volozhin (Belarusian: Валожын, romanized: Valožyn, IPA: [vaˈɫoʐɨn]; Russian: Воложин; Lithuanian: Valažinas; Polish: Wołożyn; Yiddish: וואָלאָזשין)...
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Chaim of
Volozhin (also
known as
Chaim ben
Yitzchok of
Volozhin or
Chaim Ickovits; 21
January 1749 – 14 June 1821) was a rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist...
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Volozhin Yeshiva (Yiddish: וואלאזשינער ישיבה, romanized: Volozhiner Yeshiva), was a
prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of
Volozhin, Russian...
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Yitzhak of
Volozhin (also
known as
Rabbi Yitzhak ben
Chaim of
Volozhin,
Rabbi Itsele Volozhiner, and HagRIts; 1780 – 16 June 1849) was a rosh yeshiva...
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Chaim of
Volozhin, to
found a
yeshiva (rabbinic academy) in
which rabbinic literature should be taught.
Rabbi Chaim Volozhin opened the
Volozhin yeshiva...
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acronym Netziv, was an
Orthodox rabbi, Rosh
yeshiva (dean) of the
Volozhin Yeshiva and
author of
several works of
rabbinic literature in Lithuania...
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Berlin will rise."
According to the
Volozhin tradition, the
custom of
Purim Rabbi was
introduced by
Rabbi Chaim of
Volozhin, the
founder of the yeshiva, with...
- to
change when the
rabbi Chaim of
Volozhin began a sort of national-level yeshiva. In 1803, he
founded the
Volozhin Yeshiva and
began to
attract large...
- himself,
while criticising Medieval Jewish Rationalism. His disciple,
Chaim Volozhin, the main
theoretician of
Mitnagdic Judaism,
differed from
Hasidism over...
- his
teachings encoded and
publicised by his disciples, such as
Chaim Volozhin's posthumously published the mystical-ethical work
Nefesh HaChaim. He staunchly...