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Yechezkel Levenstein



Rabbi Yechezkel (Chatzkel) Levenstein (1895 - 18 Adar 5734/1974) was the Mashgiach of the Mir yeshiva in Mir, Belarus and during the yeshiva's flight to Lithuania and on to Shanghai due to the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II. He was a leader of several yeshivas in Europe, America, and Israel, and raised several generations of Torah-observant Jewry.



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