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   Yeshivas Etz Ḥayyim (Hebrew: ישיבת עץ חיים), commonly called the Volozhin Yeshiva (Yiddish: וואלאזשינער ישיבה, romanized: Volozhiner Yeshiva), was a prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russian Empire (now Valozhyn, Belarus).

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   Oct 12, 2020 · Yeshiva Volozhin, located in the town of the same name in Lithuania, Russia —today Belarus— was founded in 1806 by Rabbi Hayyim ben Yitzhock —known as Hayyim of Volozhin—, a disciple of the...

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   Volozhin is probably the most famous, because the yeshiva movement took root most strongly in Lithuanian Russia. Its influence and ideals, and in fact its curriculum, to a great extent, govern the operation of yeshivas today.

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   Dec 18, 2022 · How Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin created the first model of a yeshiva. During the years I studied in yeshiva, friends and visitors were surprised by the striking spectacle of hundreds of pairs of learners sitting opposite each other, vigorously fighting over a page of the Talmud.

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7. www.jewishhistory.org › legendary-court-case-whoLegendary Court Case: Who Would Lead The Volozhin Yeshiva?

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   Rabbi Eliezar Fried died less than two years after his father-in-law, Rabbi Chaim Volozhiner, which left open the question of who would lead the rabbinate and become the head of the yeshiva: the Netziv or Rabbi Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik.

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   Before Volozhin, a yeshiva (or beis midrash) was established by the community in which it existed. They built it, they hired the rosh yeshiva, they paid any teachers and they, more or less, supplied the students.

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   Rabbi Dunner charts the meteoric rise and stunning collapse of Volozhin Yeshiva, modern Jewish history‘s premier institution of learning.Discover the backsto...

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    What happened to the Volozhin yeshiva?

    • The pressure got so intense that in 1892, with Volozhin yeshiva in the hands of Reb Chaim’s distinguished son-in-law, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netziv), the yeshiva was forced to close.

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    How did Volozhin affect Judaism?

    • The closure of Volozhin led to the opening of a number of Lithuanian yeshivas that became, in the late 1900s and early 1900s, the fountainhead of knowledge and scholarship in traditional Judaism. Nevertheless, the closing of the yeshiva broke the heart of the Netziv and of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik.

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    Was the Volozhin yeshiva a bastion of the Russian Empire?

    • But back in 19th century Lithuania, as the Volozhin yeshiva grew in scale and influence, it drew the ire of the Russian empire who saw it, perhaps correctly, as a bastion against the regime’s objective of assimilating Jews into the greater population, and especially, of bringing them into the fold of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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    Why is Yeshiva Volozhin important?

    • Yeshiva Volozhin is often romanticized as the womb that bore and nurtured the greatest dynasties of Talmidei Chachamim such as Rabbanim Abraham Kook, Yosef Dov Halevi Soltoveitchik, and the Hafez Hayyim, who among others, started religious movements that changed the Jewish world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Eastern Europe.

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    Why was Volozhin founded?

    • Volozhin was founded to bring about an esprit de corps among the student body that made the best even better; that developed really superior people. A third point that Rabbi Chaim include in his blueprint for the Yeshiva Movement was that Torah had to be learned as community, not as individuals.

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    Who founded a yeshiva?

    • Its influence and ideals, and in fact its curriculum, to a great extent, govern the operation of yeshivas today. The founder of the yeshiva, Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin (popularly known as “Reb Chaim Volozhiner” or simply as “Reb Chaim”), was the main disciple of the Gaon of Vilna.

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