Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 22, Parshas Pekudei
- Sefas Tamim
- Apr 6
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March 29, 2025; 29 Adar, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara
Rav Laizer Yudel Finkel ZT”L was the last Rosh Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Poland. The vast majority of the students of the Mirrer Yeshiva escaped Nazi-occupied Europe to Kobe, Japan and then to Shanghai. The Rosh Yeshiva eventually re-established the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem and a large percentage of the students that were in Shanghai rejoined him, including his son-in-law, Rav Chaim Shmulevitz ZT”L, who eventually succeeded him.
Since the founding of the State of Israel, fixed-term military service has been compulsory for its citizens...