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Yerucham Olshin

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Rabbi
Yerucham Olshin
Shlitah
Rabbi Olshin (right) with Rabbi Markowitz, rosh yeshiva of Ponovezh
TitleRav
Personal life
BornYerucham Olshin
SpouseShalva Schwartzman[1]
ChildrenReb Isser Zalman Olshin
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
Jewish leader
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaBeth Medrash Govoha

Yerucham Olshin is an Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages).[2][3] He is one of the four roshei yeshiva (deans) of Beth Medrash Govoha,[4][5] an Orthodox yeshiva located in Lakewood, New Jersey.[6]

Olshin's works about Jewish holidays have been published under the title Yareach L'Moadim. Olshin was a student of Rabbis Eliyahu Moshe Shisgal (son in law of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein), Abba Berman, and Shneur Kotler. He is married to Shalva, who is the daughter of Rabbi Dov Schwartzman,[1] and granddaughter of the founder of the yeshiva, Rabbi Aharon Kotler.

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  1. 1 2 "Rav Dov Schwartzman, zt"l". matzav.com. November 7, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Six Gedolim Added To Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah Of Agudas Yisroel". TheYeshivaWorld.com. September 14, 2020. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ By: The “Hamodia Staff” (September 14, 2020). "Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah Call on Community to Achieve Improvements; New Chavrei HaMoetzes Welcomed". Hamodia. Archived from the original on December 11, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
  4. ↑ Davidson, Aryeh (March 24, 2007). "Breaking the Barriers". Ohr Somayach International. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ Goldberg, Rabbi Hillel. "The Traffic is Edgy, Rav Olshin Is Not". Yated Ne'eman, 12 October 2011, pp. 70–71.
  6. ↑ Helmreich, William B. (2000). The World of the Yeshiva: An intimate portrait of Orthodox Jewry. Ktav Publishing House. p. 40. ISBN 0-88125-642-0.
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