Moshe Mordechai Epstein

Legacy

Rabbi Epstein was known to share a warm relationship with Rabbi Finkel. The Alter later became Rabbi Epstein's mechutan, when the latter's daughter married the Alter's son, Moshe Finkel. Rabbi Epstein's other daughter married Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna, who succeeded Rabbi Epstein as Rosh yeshiva of Chevron after his death. Rabbi Epstein had only one son, Rabbi Chaim Shraga Feivel, whom he named after his father-in-law. Rabbi Epstein authored the Levush Mordechai, which contains his chiddushim, or novellae, on the entire Talmud.

Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein died in Jerusalem in 1933, corresponding to the Hebrew date 10 of Kislev 5694. He is buried on the Mount of Olives.

Volozhin Yeshiva

Location: Valozhyn, Belarus

Faculty: Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin; Eliezer Fried; Refael Shapiro; Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi); Chaim Soloveitchik; Chaim Volozhin; Yitzchak Volozhin

Alumni: Shmuel Alexandrov; Meir Bar-Ilan; Zelig Reuven Bengis; Micha Josef Berdyczewski; Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin; Hayim Nahman Bialik; David Cohen; Israel Davidson; Alter Asher Droyanov; Baruch Epstein; Moshe Mordechai Epstein; Chaim Ozer Grodzinski; Abraham Harkavy; Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman; Jacob Joseph; Chaim Mordechai Katz; Abraham Isaac Kook; Moyshe Kulbak; Moshe Landyski; Boruch Ber Leibowitz; Aryeh Levin; Isser Zalman Meltzer; Samuel Mohilever; Shlomo Polachek; Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz; Yitzchak Yaacov Reines; Mnachem Risikoff; Zundel Salant; Refael Shapiro; Shimon Shkop; Chaim Soloveitchik; Zalman Sorotzkin; Elchonon Wasserman; Kalman Zev Wissotzky

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Persondata
Name	Epstein, Moshe Mordechai
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Date of birth	1866-03-07
Place of birth	Bakst, Lithuania
Date of death	1933-11-28
Place of death	Jerusalem, Palestine (now Israel)