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 Solomon Polachek (top left), a preeminent prodigy of his time, known as the Meitscheter Ilui, who taught here 1921–28; Rabbi Shimon Shkop (top center), the famous rosh yeshiva of Grodno, who taught here 1928–29; and Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik (top right) who brought the heralded Brisker approach developed by his sainted father Rabbi Chaim of Brisk (Brest-Litovsk) to the United States.
Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz (Suvalker Rav), 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 zt''l from the earliest days to recent decades.
HaRav Hagaon R. Dov Ber Abramowitz zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Avraham Eliezer Alperstein zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Nisson Lippa Alpert zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yoseph Leib Arnest zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Binyomin Aronowitz zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shmuel Belkin zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yehuda Dovid Bernstein zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Noah Borenstein zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Dovid Burack zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Avigdor Cyperstein zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shlomo Elimelech Drillman zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Chanoch Henoch Fishman zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shmuel Gerstenfeld zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yeruchim Gorelik zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Chaim Heller zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yechiel Michel Hacohen Katz zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shlomo Nosson Kotler zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yaakov Moshe Hacohen Lessin zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yosef Dov Halevi Levine zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Zvulun Lieberman zt''l HaRav Hagaon R. Dovid Lifschitz zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Moshe Zevulun Margolies zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shmuel Aryeh Olishevsky zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shraga Feivel Paretzky zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shlomo Polacheck zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Moshe Aaron Poleyeff zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Elazar Meir Preil zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. David Rackman zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Dov Revel zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Simon Romm zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yisroel Rosenberg zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Melech Shachter zt''l HaRav Hagaon R. Zerubavel Schussheim zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Avraham Aharon Shatzkes zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Moshe Shatzkes zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shimon Yehudah Hacohen Shkop zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Chaim Shufenthal zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Ahron Halevi Soloveichik zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Moshe Halevi Soloveitchik zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Ephraim Mordechai Steinberg zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Yehuda Weil zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Shalom Elchanan Halevi Yaffe zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Avraham Aharon Yudelowitz zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Menachem Mendel Yosef Zaks zt''lHaRav Hagaon R. Avraham Yitzchik Zalmanowitz zt''l
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