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HaRav Aharon Soloveitchik, zt"l
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

HaRav Aharon Soloveitchik, rosh yeshiva and founder of Chicago's Yeshivas Brisk and senior rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchonon Theological Seminary, passed away in Chicago on chol hamoed Succos. Previously he served as a ram in Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn under HaRav Yitzchok Hutner zt"l.

Rav Aharon was known as a boki in rishonim and a lamdan in the Brisker derech he received from his father. He was the zkan horabbonim in Chicago and served as chairman of the Halachic Committee of the Merkaz HaRabbonim, the Chicago Orthodox Rabbinate.

HaRav Aharon HaLevi Soloveitchik was the youngest of HaRav Moshe and Pesha Soloveitchik's children. Born in Khaslavichy, Russia on May 1, 1917 (5677), he came to America as a youth when his father was rosh yeshiva at Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchok Elchonon. His main learning was from his father HaRav Moshe, zt"l, oldest son of HaRav Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk. He was also an honors graduate of New York University School of Law.

"It is not just that Rav Aharon is the only rosh yeshiva that speaks about Biafra", his lifelong friend Rav Mordechai Gifter, zt"l, once explained. "It's that he is the only rosh yeshiva who ever heard of Biafra."

The burial took place on Har Hazeisim in Yerushalayim. He is survived by four sons and two daughters and their families, who follow in his footsteps.

 

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