“THE GREATEST YESHIVAH FACULTY OF ALL TIME?”
| FOR THE RECORD | ALL CREDIT GOES TO DOVI SAFIER, YEHUDA GEBERER & THE MISHPACHA By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer | JULY 1, 2020 His dream was to build a living monument to the litvish Torah world decimated in the Holocaust Title: “The Greatest Yeshivah Faculty of All Time?” Location: Ponevezh Yeshivah, Bnei Brak, Israel Document: Ponevezh Yeshivah Fundraising Brochure Time: 1957 T he vision of the great Ponevezher Rav, Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, was to rebuild a lost world. He assembled an unparalleled staff of Torah greats under one roof: Rav Shmuel Rozovsky brought the distinct learning style of Rav Shimon Shkop; Rav Dovid Povarsky came with the legacy of the Mir in Poland; Rav Chatzkel Levenstein supplied the towering mussar of Kelm; and Rav Shach added his experience from Kletzk. And that’s just the senior staff! The junior rebbeim could hold their own, with Rav Chaim Friedlander eventually becoming mashgiach , and th...