Relka Soloveitchik Shapiro

Read about her in a book by

Shulamit Soloveitchik Meiselman, author of the widely acclaimed "The Soloveitchik Heritage: A Daughter's Memoir".

She had two sons with her first husband (Rav Yosef Soloveitchik) who passed away at a young age; Yitzchak Zev and Eliyahu Zvi.

She then married Moshe Hakohen Shapiro whose wife also passed away at a young age after giving birth to a daughter Rivka. Rivka married her step brother;Yitzchak Zev, the son of Relka from her first husband.

RAV YOSEF DOV SOLOVEITCHIK ZT"L

by D. Sofer

This article originally appeared in Yated Neeman, Monsey NY.

For Rav Yosef Dov (Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik, baking matzos was no simple matter. The night before the matza baking was scheduled to take place, he would go to the bakery and stoke the oven with large logs of wood so that its heat would be strong enough. Throughout the night, he would review the laws of matza baking, stopping every half hour to throw another log into the scorching oven.

Despite all of these efforts, each year he baked only eight matzos, which he used at the Seder and on Shabbos and Yom Tov for lechem mishna. Aside from this, he ate no other matzos, concerned that, after all his supervision, he still hadn't been careful enough with their preparation.

In fact, Rav Yosef Dov, the founder of the Brisk dynasty, had 42 requirements when it came to matza baking. The Brisker legacy and approach is generally associated with strict and zealous devotion to Torah principles, and matza baking was no exception.

The Beis Haleivi exercised stringency and zeal not only in the observance of the practical halachos, but also in his middos and interpersonal relationships. Thus, the very same Bais Haleivi who was known for his personal strictness was also famed for his remarkable acts of chessed, and particularly for his incredible efforts to elicit lenient rulings when the wellbeing of the poor or unfortunate was at stake.

Thus, the life and times of Rav Yosef Dov is not only marked by his great Torah genius - and his famed Beis Haleivi - but it is also replete with inspiring accounts of his chessed, humility and sensitivity toward others.

ILLUSTRIOUS BEGINNINGS

Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik was born in 5580/1820 in Niesvizh, a city just outside of Minsk. He descended from an illustrious family, headed by Rav Yitzchok Soloveitchik, his great-great grandfather.

Rav Yitzchok Zev lived in Brisk, but moved to Kovno in 5511/1751, and then to Villiampol. In 5533/1773, his son Rav Moshe became rav of Villiampol and the head of its community. When Rav Moshe was niftar, he was replaced by his son Rav Yosef, the son-in-law of Rav Chaim of Volozhin. Rav Yosef's son, Rav Yitzchok Zev, married Rivka, the daughter of Rav Moshe Hacohen Shapiro of Niesvizh, and the family settled in that city, where Rav Yitzchok Zev's father-in-law supported them.

Rav Yitzchok Zev and Rivka were the parents of Rav Yosef Dov, who in his final years became rav of Brisk. Rav Yosef Dov's father was an outstanding Torah scholar who was very active in strengthening Torah in Russia. He was truly worthy of producing generations of great geonim and Torah giants, and he had a profound impact on his son.As a child Rav Yosef Dov studied in the cheder in Niesvizh, and there not only his brilliance, but also his rare sensitivity toward others, surfaced.

Upset by the plight of his poorer classmates, he would share his lunches with them. When his mother got wind of this, she asked him to explain his behavior. Earnestly, he asserted, "I ate a good breakfast, and in the evening I'll have a good supper. But my friends barely ate breakfast, won't have a sufficient supper, and didn't bring anything for lunch."

"But you also can't go from early morning until supper time without food," she protested.

"When a hungry child eats my meal, I feel as full as if I had eaten it myself," he quietly replied.

From then on, his mother gave him two lunches: one for himself and one to divide among his poorer classmates.

The integrity and honesty that were the hallmarks of Rav Yosef Dov's personality as an adult were also evident at a young age. Once, while his melamed was taking a break, a fight broke out between two students. One of the boys, the son of a wealthy resident of Niesvizh, blamed his poorer counterpart - an orphan - for instigating the fight. Upon his return the melamed, without investigating the facts, slapped the orphan in the face so severely that he began to bleed.

That afternoon, 7-year-old old Yosef Dov returned home and promptly announced that he would no longer study under such an unjust melamed. His father insisted that Yosef Dov not denigrate the melamed, but Yosef Dov would not be deterred. The next day, instead of returning to cheder, he began to study in the local beis medrash, along with his father and grandfather.

A BRILLIANT STUDENT

Four years later, Rav Yitzchok Zev asked his uncle, Rav Itzele Volozhiner, to accept the brilliant Yosef Dov into the Volozhin Yeshiva. Rav Itzele was so impressed by Yosef Dov's knowledge and potential that he accepted him immediately. By the time Yosef Dov was 13, he was studying with the yeshiva's top scholars.

When Yosef Dov was 16, Rav Itzele sent him to Blumke's yeshiva in Minsk to substitute for its rosh yeshiva, Rav Gershon Tanchum. Upon Rav Tanchum's return, he invited Rav Yosef Dov to serve as his assistant.

In time, one of the wealthy landowners of Bobruisk took Rav Yosef Dov as a son-in-law. This match was arranged at the behest of the bride's mother, who stemmed from an illustrious family of talmidei chachamim and immediately recognized Rav Yosef Dov's greatness.

Rav Yosef Dov and his wife were very happy together. However, their marriage was shattered after a jealous townsman spread a false rumor that since Rav Yosef Dov was not familiar with some of the Yom Tov Piyutim recited in Bobruisk, he was not a genuine Torah scholar. This poison seeped into the mind of Rav Yosef Dov's father-in-law, who then convinced his daughter to divorce Rav Yosef Dov. Seeing the mastery of halacha and the character refinement Rav Yosef Dov displayed while in the beis din, the father-in-law realized his mistake in breaking up the marriage and fainted. But it was too late.

Rav Yosef Dov's mother-in-law was very upset by this sorry turn of events and did everything in her power to prevent the divorce, but to no avail. Rav Yosef Dov appreciated her valiant efforts on his behalf, and before leaving Bobruisk, thanked her and asked her to take special care of his 1-year-old daughter. Instead of returning to Volozhin, where Czarist decrees restricted Torah learning, the brokenhearted Rav Yosef Dov went to Brody. When the decrees were revoked, he returned to Volozhin where, in 5598/1838, he married Tzirel, the daughter of Rav Yitzchok Efron, a prominent talmid chacham from Volozhin.

IN THE NETZIV'S YESHIVA

In 5613/1853, Rav Yosef Dov was offered the position of rav of Telshe. However, at the same time, he was invited to serve as rosh yeshiva of Volozhin, alongside the Netziv, Rav Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin, and he accepted that position.

Although Rav Yosef Dov was highly respected and loved by his students, his years in Volozhin were fraught with strife and turmoil. This strife, though, wasn't cause by the two roshei yeshivos - they held each other in high esteem - but rather by the students themselves.

Eventually, things reached the point where two warring camps were formed: one consisting of adherents to the Netziv's clear and tranquil approach to learning, and the other of adherents to Rav Yosef Dov's incisive and highly animated style.

On one occasion, a group of students demanded that the majority of the shiurim in the yeshiva be delivered by Rav Yosef Dov. At the time, Rav Yosef Dov was suffering from pneumonia accompanied by a high fever. Nonetheless, he went to the beis medrash and tearfully entreated the students to put a stop to their defiant behavior.

The following day, Rav Yosef Dov's fever rose and his life seemed to be in danger. The Netziv burst into tears and began to recite Tehillim. Later, he made a "Mi'sheberach" for Rav Yosef Dov's full recovery and visited him in his home, where the two spoke at length.

Eventually, three prominent rabbanim were summoned to the yeshiva in order to effect a compromise among the students. After reaching the compromise, it was decided to hold a general shiur attended by all of the "camps." However, an argument broke out between the two roshei yeshiva, the Netziv and Rav Yosef Dov, each insisting that the other deserved the honor of delivering the shiur. In the end it was agreed that one would speak during the first hour, and the other during the second hour. Despite the relative peace that prevailed in the yeshiva after the compromise, Rav Yosef Dov feared that things might once again come to a head and that the learning atmosphere in the yeshiva might be disrupted if he remained as rosh yeshiva. As a result, he left Volozhin, and accepted the position as Rav of Slutzk, after the illustrious Rav Yosef Feimer passed away. The Netziv pleaded with him not to leave Volozhin, and while Rav Yosef Dov was in Slutzk he often sent messengers to ask him to return to the yeshiva. But Rav Yosef Dov refused. Prior to accepting the position in Slutzk, Rav Yosef Dov was asked to head a Yeshiva in Minsk that would prepare students to study in Volozhin. However, he refused this offer, fearing the Yeshiva's supporters might then decrease their support of Volozhin.

After he became Rav of Slutzk, a group of students from Volozhin asked him to teach them. But once again he refused, fearing that this group might attract other students from Volozhin, and thus harm the yeshiva.

MANY OFFERS

Slutzk was just one of the many prestigious cities that offered Rav Yosef Dov a rabbinical position. Rav Yosef Dov, however, was unwilling to accept any offer without consulting his mentor, Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin, rav of Kovno at that time. Rav Yehoshua Leib, who was about to resign from his position, suggested that Rav Yosef Dov replace him as of Rav of Kovno, but he refused, saying that he could not occupy the seat of "the gaon and tzaddik of the generation."

He did not easily accept his appointment as rav of Slutzk, either. On the 15th of Av, 5624/1864, a contingent from Slutzk appeared in Volozhin to present Rav Yosef Dov with a writ of appointment as rav. Rav Yosef Dov was stunned by their offer and insisted that he wasn't deserving of such a prominent position. When he asked why they had chosen him when so many other illustrious talmidei chachamim had applied for the post, they replied that Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spector, who had become Kovno's rav in place of Rav Yehoshua Leib, had recommended him.

As Rav Yosef Dov examined the writ of appointment, he said, "Rav Yosef Feimer has a son, Rav Meir, who is worthy of succeeding him. Why not appoint him?"

"He's too young," the delegates replied. "Besides, he also refuses to accept the position, a fact mentioned in Rav Yosef's will."

"But the great gaon Rav Mendele Epstein lives in Slutzk. Why have you overlooked that great lion in favor of a fox in Volozhin?" Rav Yosef Dov persisted.

"He does not involve himself in communal affairs," the delegates asserted.

Seeing that he had no choice, Rav Yosef Dov accepted the position as Rav of Slutzk, but on three conditions: The first was that he be permitted to remain in Volozhin for three more months, until after Succos, in order to absorb more yiras Shamayim. The second was that Rav Epstein confirms his consent to the appointment in writing. The third was that he be shown a copy of Rav Yosef Feimer's will in order to verify that Rav Meir had indeed refused the position.

IN SLUTSK

Unexpectedly, Rav Yosef Dov's life in Slutzk was far from a bed of roses. As the city's rav, he had to contend with highhanded parnassim and powerful landowners. But true to his character, he refused to kowtow to them, and he championed the rights of the poor when he felt that the parnassim had treated them unjustly. Throughout his strife-filled tenure in Slutzk he not only displayed dignity and strength, but he was also a paradigm of chessed and humility at all times.

He first demonstrated his powerful leadership abilities at his inauguration ceremony. This ceremony, which was held in the parnass' shul, was attended by the trustees of all of the prominent shuls in the city. Conspicuously absent were the trustees of the tradesmen's and laborers' shuls.

Rav Yosef Dov noticed this intentional oversight immediately and cleverly inquired as to whether the tradesmen would sign his writ of appointment, or if they instead had their own separate kehilla and might thus not feel obligated to submit to his leadership.

Upon receiving negative answers to these questions, he then asked that the trustees of the workmen's shuls be invited to the ceremony, and personally saw to it that this request was duly implemented.

When these trustees arrived at the parnass' shul, Rav Yosef Dov greeted them warmly and with great honor, much to the annoyance of the wealthy and prominent trustees already there. The following day, he toured the city's chadorim, spending much time in the cheder where the city's poorer children studied. In particular, he examined the children's lunch bags and was astounded by their meager content and, in certain cases, by their emptiness. Then and there, he gave the melamed money to buy the children bread and cookies, as well as a large sum to be used on a long-term basis for lunches and dinners for them. His kindness once again came to the fore on his first Erev Pesach in Slutzk, when he provided the city's poor with generous Maos Chittim stipends. Many of these people claimed that the city's Maos Chittim trustees had spurned them.

Surprisingly, instead of appreciating the rav's chessed, the city's parnassim felt that he was undermining their authority. They took him to task for distributing Maos Chittim to the poor without ascertaining whether their claims against the Maos Chittim trustees were correct.

"You are absolutely right," Rav Yosef Dov told them. "I really should have heard your side, too. But they came to me on Erev Pesach in the afternoon, and I couldn't let them usher in the holiday without food. Besides, it was too late to contact you. "However, as a resident of Slutzk, I am also obligated to contribute to the Maos Chittim fund. Because I am the town's rav, you apparently didn't approach me for such a contribution. And so, I used this opportunity to contribute my own money to the fund, and that is what I gave them."

News of the rav's amazing chessed spread like wildfire throughout the town, while the parnassim gritted their teeth.

FIRST SHABBOS HAGADOL DRASHA

Yet another matter involving Rav Yosef Dov and the parnassim resulted in an uproar in certain circles. It involved the evergrowing tendency of wealthy families to send their children to the local gymnasium, or non-Jewish high school. Although the children did not write in class on Shabbos, they still went to school on Shabbos.

When Rav Yosef Dov saw that he could not persuade the parents to withdraw their children from the gymnasium, he pleaded with them to at least make arrangements to exempt them from school on Shabbos, stressing that their going to school on Shabbos in their uniforms and with their satchels, while the rest of the Jews went to shul to pray, was a chillul Hashem.

Seeking to bring special attention to this issue, he raised it in his first Shabbos Hagadol drasha in Slutzk.

This drasha had a tremendous impact on the listeners. In it, he pleaded with parents to pity their children and to take them out of the gymnasium. As Rav Meir Feimer later described it, as Rav Yosef Dov spoke, much weeping was heard in the shul, especially from the women's section. During the drasha, a num- ber of women cried out that they would take their children out of the gymnasium altogether and return them to cheder.

According to Rav Feimer, after that drasha, nearly half of the Jewish student body of the gymnasium stopped attending school until its principal promised to release them from their studies on Shabbos and Yom Tov.

Not everyone, however, was happy with this sudden turn of events. Certain elements informed on Rav Yosef Dov to the Czarist governor, and he was summoned to a trial. At that trial, Rav Yosef Dov defended himself so eloquently that he not only escaped punishment, but also managed to secure an arrangement for exempting Jewish students from school on Shabbos. A number of years later, however, the governor canceled this arrangement.

KIDNAPPING IN SLUTSK

Later on, in an even more dramatic affair, Rav Yosef Dov's courageous mettle and dauntlessness once again were readily apparent. This affair involved yet another fierce clash with the parnassim.

During Rav Yosef Dov's tenure in Slutzk, every community and town was obligated to provide the Czarist army with a certain number of new recruits. This quota was determined by the number of residents in each town.

According to the law, the conscription was performed by the parnassim of the community, as they saw fit. Most of these parnassim first took the lawbreakers. When they still lacked recruits, they snatched them from the poorer class, sometimes even kidnapping young married men in broad daylight. These recruits were then held in a community building under heavy guard until the day of their actual draft.

In those days, a unique way existed of presenting one's gripes or complaints against a fellow townsman. On Shabbos morning, before the Torah reading, the claimant would stand on the steps leading to the Aron Kodesh and forestall the Torah reading until he had stated his complaint. Then and there the rav and the other prominent members of the community would promise to review the case immediately after Shabbos . One Shabbos morning in the winter of 5628/1868 a woman burst into Rav Yosef Dov's shul in Slutzk and made her way to the stairs leading to the Aron Kodesh. In her arms she held an infant, while two toddlers trailed behind her.

Tearfully she cried out, "I am delaying the Torah reading until my husband is released."

Some people tried to chase her out of the shul, while others demanded that she be given a hearing.

When quiet resumed, she went over to Rav Yosef Dov and told him that her husband, a hardworking and honest tailor, had been kidnapped on his way to shul by the parnassim's henchmen. Rav Yosef Dov told her to go home and feed her children, promising that her husband would return that afternoon. Then he turned to the congregation and said that he himself would detain the Torah reading until the tailor was released.

Having no choice, the parnassim released the tailor and brought him to the shul, where he was invited to the recite the blessings over the Torah reading and say Birkas Hagomel. Of course, the parnassim seethed at this slight to their honor and authority, and a number of days later, they avenged Rav Yosef Dov's actions by kidnapping one of his students, who wasn't even a resident of Slutzk.

Rav Yosef Dov reacted by organizing a "troop" of local firemen, instructing them to break down the jail's door with their axes, and thus release the student. Fearing that if the jail's door were broken down the other prisoners would escape, too, the parnassim met the firemen at the jail and freed the student.

After this incident, the tempers of the parnassim and of some of the other upper-class residents of Slutzk flared and a rebellion against Rav Yosef Dov ensued. The parnassim were soon joined by certain meat retailers, who resented Rav Yosef Dov's amendments to promote free competition in the meat trade. One of the wealthy citizens even threatened to form a separate kehilla headed by Rav Meir Feimer. However, Rav Yosef Dov knew that Rav Feimer wasn't involved in the instigation, especially since he had been away from Slutzk a number of years, serving as rav of the community of Barzen. In addition, when Rav Meir returned to Slutzk, he sided with Rav Yosef Dov and reproved the parnassim.

Feeling he had no alternative, Rav Yosef Dov left the city. A short while later, many calamities befell the residents. The children of a number of Rav Yosef Dov's opponents fell ill and died, and one of the parnassim who had been particularly impudent toward Rav Yosef Dov became paralyzed.

Feeling that Hashem was punishing them for their behavior, Rav Yosef Dov's opponents in Slutzk begged his forgiveness. Deeply pained by their sorrow, he consoled them and readily forgave them. They then asked him to return as Rav of Slutzk, but he refused, recommending that that they appoint Rav Meir Feimer. But Rav Meir refused their offer, asserting that he wasn't worthy of such a position.

The parnassim argued that they would heed his every decision. At the prodding of his brother-in-law and Rav Yosef Dov, Rav Meir finally acquiesced, saying, "I will accept the position on condition that as long as Rav Yosef Dov hasn't received another official appointment, he will still retain the title of Rav of Slutzk, as well as the right to return to that position whenever he wishes. In the meantime, I will settle in Slutzk, but not as its rav, rather as a simple baal habayis who is substituting for its real rav, Rav Yosef Dov."

In 5633/1873, while Rav Yosef Dov was still in Slutzk, his wife, the righteous Tzirel, passed away.

TO WARSAW

From Slutzk, Rav Yosef Dov traveled to Warsaw in order to publish the second volume of Beis Haleivi. In Warsaw, he married a widow, who had a number of children whom he raised as his very own.

At that time, Rav Yaakov Gezundheit had been forced from his position as Rav of Warsaw due to the machinations of the city's parnassim. Upon his arrival in Warsaw, Rav Yosef Dov visited Rav Yaakov, and the two commiserated over their bitter experiences with local parnassim. Rav Yaakov and Rav Yosef Dov soon grew very close, and Rav Yaakov helped him publish the Beis Haleivi.

When Rav Yaakov later suffered from a contagious illness, Rav Yosef Dov paid him daily visits. These visits cheered the despondent Rav Yaakov who had suffered so much from various elements in his city and contributed vastly to the improvement of his condition.

Shortly afterward, the Sefas Emes visited Rav Yosef Dov and tried to convince him to accept the position of the city's rav. Rav Yaakov Gezundheit, who was by then seriously ill, also urged Rav Yosef Dov to accept the position. Although Rav Yosef Dov wanted a respite from rabbinical positions, he could not ignore Rav Yaakov's pleas or the Sefas Emes' request.

To solve his dilemma, he suggested that he be appointed av beis din of Warsaw, a position that came with much authority, but exempted him from dealing with the government. However, the maskilim, who realized that as av beis din Rav Yosef Dov's influence in the city would be equally as strong as that of its chief rabbi, thwarted that appointment.

While he was in Warsaw, Rav Yosef Dov was instrumental in freeing his mentor, Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin, then the rav of Brisk, from jail in Horodna, where he had been imprisoned as a result of slander. From the time of Rav Yehoshua Leib's incarceration until his total vindication from the false charges against him, Rav Yosef Dov remained in Horodna, studying with him every day in a special cell activists had managed to secure for him.

At a later date, Rav Yosef Dov said that if he had come to this world only in order to release Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin from prison, his entire life was worthwhile.

DEJECTION

Despite his total vindication, Rav Yehoshua Leib was forced to flee Russia and decided to move to Eretz Yisroel. However, he had to make many stops in Europe before reaching his destination. He and his family were accompanied on these treks by Rav Yosef Dov's brother, Rav Simcha, who assisted them in every manner possible.

Although Rav Yosef Dov was ecstatic over Rav Yehoshua Leib's release, his many efforts on the latter's behalf in Horodna took their toll. In addition, he was very depressed over the fact that Rav Yehoshua Leib had been forced to leave his home. On Rav Yosef Dov's first Shabbos back from Horodna, he fainted in shul. When he was taken home, he barely spoke or ate for a number of days, because he was so worried over the fate of Rav Yehoshua Leib, from whom he hadn't heard a word. His despondency and ailments were alleviated in a surprising manner by the Or Sameach, Rav Meir Simcha Hacohen, who came all the way from Bialystock to visit him.

The medicine Rav Meir Simcha gave him did not consist of herbs or special teas, but rather of doses of Rav Yehoshua Leib's divrei Torah. Thanks to Rav Meir Simcha's treatment, Rav Yosef Dov snapped out of his recovered from his illness. Shortly after Rav Meir Simcha's visit, Rav Yosef Dov received news that Rav Yehoshua Leib was in Paris and was feeling well, and would soon continue on to Eretz Yisroel.

TO BRISK

In 5638/1878, Rav Yosef Dov was offered the position as Rav of Brisk, an appointment prompted by Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin before his flight from Russia. At first Rav Yosef Dov insisted that he did not want to accept any more rabbinical posts. However, when the delegation from Brisk declared that he could not disappoint the 25,000 Jews awaiting him, he relented. Shortly afterward, Rav Yosef Dov's brother, Rav Simcha, came to Brisk to help him organize the city's rabbinical affairs. At Rav Yosef Dov's urging, his son Rav Chaim, who had been residing in Volozhin, moved there, too, and became his father's right hand.

Since Rav Yosef Dov's family had actually originated from Brisk, its residents were especially excited by this appointment, which they felt was a Heaven-sent match.

As rav of Brisk, Rav Yosef Dov's renown as one of Torah Jewry's greatest rabbanim and leaders became widespread, and his home became a focal point for Klal Yisroel.

Only a few months after he assumed the position of Rav of Brisk, new blood streamed into its religious and public facilities, and Brisk began to blossom once again. In Brisk, he published the third volume of Beis Haleivi and spread Torah to many budding talmidei chachamim.

GREATNESS IN TORAH

In Shevat of 5652/1892, the Volozhin Yeshiva was forcibly closed by the Russian government because of its refusal to introduce secular studies into the curriculum. At a meeting called by the Netziv, some maintained that the yeshiva should accept the government's demands so that it would be able to remain open. A weeping Rav Yosef Dov, however, opposed this view, maintaining that such a decision lay out of the bounds of those present at the meeting, and that their sole responsibility was to ensure that Torah be transmitted to future generations by means of the form used since time immemorial - which did not include the introduction of secular subjects.

The yeshiva's closing left Rav Yosef Dov heartbroken, and on Motza'ei Shabbos, the 4th of Iyar of that very year, he suffered a heart attack and returned his pure soul to its Maker. He was succeeded by his son, Rav Chaim, who continued his father's legacy in a glorious manner.

There is only one way to assess Rav Yosef Dov's true greatness in Torah, and that is by studying his works. His monumental Beis Haleivi, which consists of three volumes, is one of the classic Acharonim, and it speaks for itself.

Many of his halachic rulings and chiddushim have never been published. Some of them, however, have appeared in various pamphlets over the years, or are cited in other works of our Acharonim. Others have been transmitted by word of mouth. All are awaiting collection.

Today, the illustrious Torah dynasty Rav Yosef Dov founded continues to flourish, and is the backbone of Torah true Jewry.

Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik

Rabbi Berel Soloveitchik

Rabbi Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik

Rabbi Yosef Dov (HaLevi) Soloveitchik

author of Beis HaLevi

Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik

"Reb Chaim Brisker"

Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik

"The GRIZ"

The Brisker Rov

Lifsha Soloveitchik Feinstein

Dr. Tovah Soloveitchik Lichtenstein

Lifsha Shapiro

daughter of Rav Refoel Shapiro

Rabbi Refoel Soloveitchik

Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein

Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik

Atarah Soloveitchik Twersky

Rabbi Mosheh Twersky

Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. (Yosef Dov) Soloveitchik

"The Rav"

Rabbi Dr. Isadore Twersky

Rabbi Mayer Twersky

Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik

Rabbi Dr. Ahron Soloveichik

Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik

Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik

Peshka Feinstein Soloveichik

Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Soloveitchik

Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveitchik

Shulamit Soloveitchik Meiselman

Rabbi Moshe Meiselman

Rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik

Anne Soloveitchik Gerber

Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik