Honorific-Prefix: | Rabbi |
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel | |
Rosh Yeshivas Mir | |
Synagogue: | Mir Yeshiva Jerusalem |
Synagogueposition: | Rav |
Yeshiva: | Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) |
Yeshivaposition: | Rosh yeshiva |
Organisation: | Mir Yeshiva Jerusalem |
Organisationposition: | Rosh Yeshiva |
Began: | 2011 |
Predecessor: | Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel |
Birth Name: | Eliezer Yehuda Finkel |
Birth Date: | September 16, 1965 |
Nationality: | Israeli |
Denomination: | Haredi |
Residence: | Jerusalem, Israel |
Parents: | Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel Rachel Leah Finkel |
Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (also called Leizer Yudel Finkel) [1] is a Haredi Jewish rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem,[2] [3] which is considered to be the largest yeshiva in Israel with a student body of 6,000 students.[4] He acceded to the position of rosh yeshiva after his father, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, died suddenly on 8 November 2011.[5]
Finkel was named after his maternal great-grandfather, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, who became rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir yeshiva in Poland in 1917 and re-established the yeshiva in Jerusalem during World War II while the main body of the yeshiva was in exile in the Far East. His great-great-grandfather was the Mussar movement leader Nosson Tzvi Finkel.