Roshei Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan (Yeshiva University)

This project seeks to collect the profiles of all past and present Roshei Yeshiva of RIETS.

From the RIETS Website (links below are to Geni profiles, for links to the bios go to the RIETS website https://www.yu.edu/riets/about/mission-history/historic-roshei-yeshiva): Historic Roshei Yeshiva Since its inception, RIETS has pursued the high standards of scholarship exemplified by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor. At no other school have so many great roshei yeshiva shared their wisdom.

Among them were Rabbi Shlomo Polachek - The Ilui (prodigy) of Maytchet (Molchadz), a preeminent prodigy of his time, known as the Meitscheter Ilui, who taught here 1921–28; Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Rosh Yeshivas Grodno, the famous rosh yeshiva of Grodno, who taught here 1928–29; and Rabbi Moses Soloveichik who brought the heralded Brisker approach developed by his sainted father Rabbi Chaim of Brisk (Brest-Litovsk) to the United States.

Rav Dovid Lifshitz, a warmly revered teacher and world-renowned authority on Halacha, served as a rosh yeshiva at RIETS—the I. Meier and Henrietta Segals Professor of Talmud—for nearly a half century.

Learn about these and other eminent RIETS Torah scholars ztl from the earliest days to recent decades.

R. David Abramowitz ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Avraham Eliezer Alperstein ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Rabbi Nisson Alpert ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Yoseph Leib Arnest ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Binyomin Aronowitz ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Rabbi Dr. Samuel Belkin ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Yehuda Dovid Bernstein ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Noah Borenstein ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Rabbi Aaron David Burack ztl

Rabbi Zevulun Charlop

HaRav Hagaon R. Avigdor Cyperstein ztl

HaRav Hagaon Shlomo Elimelech Drillman ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Chanoch Henoch Fishman ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Rabbi Shmuel Gerstenfeld ztl

Rabbi Ozer Yeshaya Anthony Scott Glickman

HaRav Hagaon Rabbi Yeruchem Gorelick ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Chaim Heller ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Yechiel Michel Hacohen Katz ztl

HaRav Hagaon Harav Hagaon Shlomo Nosson Kotler ztl

Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm zt"l

HaRav Hagaon Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Lessin ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Yosef Dov Halevi Levine ztl

Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshiva Har Etzion

HaRav Hagaon R. Zvulun Lieberman ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rav Dovid Lifshitz ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rabbi Moses Zevulun Margolies (The RaMaZ) ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Shmuel Aryeh Olishevsky ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Shraga Feivel Paretzky ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rabbi Shlomo Polachek - The Ilui (prodigy) of Maytchet (Molchadz) ztl

HaRav Hagaon Harav Moshe Aharon Poleyeff ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rav Elazor Meir Preil ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Rabbi David Rackman ztl

Harav Hagaon R. Shalom Rackovsky zt"l

HaRav Hagaon R. Rabbi Dov Bernard Revel ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Simon Romm ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Yisroel Rosenberg ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Rabbi Melech Schachter ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Zerubavel Schussheim ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rav Avraham Aharon Shatzkes ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rav Moshe Shatzkes ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Rosh Yeshivas Grodno ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Chaim Shunfenthal ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rabbi Aaron Soloveichik ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rabbi Moses Soloveichik ztl

HaRav Hagaon Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Ephraim Mordechai Steinberg ztl

HaRav HaGaon Rabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler zt"l

Rabbi Samuel Volk

HaRav Hagaon R. Yehuda Weil ztl

Rabbi Avrohom Yosef Weiss

HaRav Hagaon R. Shalom Elchanan Halevi Yaffe ztl

R. Gershon Yankelewitz

HaRav Hagaon R. Avraham Aharon Yudelowitz ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. R' Menachem Mendel Yosef Zaks ztl

HaRav Hagaon R. Avraham Yitzchik Zalmanowitz ztl (on him see http://moreshesamerica.blogspot.com/2014/09/2.html)