Students
The legacy of Rabbi Meltzer was carried on by his numerous students:
- His son, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Meltzer, Chief Rabbi of Rehovot, and the father-in-law of Rabbi Yehuda Amital
- His son, Rabbi Professor Feivel Meltzer is a noted linguist of Biblical Hebrew in Israel
- His son-in-law, Rabbi Yitzchack Ben Menachem, Chief Rabbi of Petah Tikva
- His son-in-law, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, founder of Bais Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, New Jersey
- His granddaughter's husband, Rabbi Yehuda Amital, Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion.
- Rabbi Elazar Shach, Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh Yeshiva in Israel, and leader of Lithuanian Jews
- Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rosh Yeshiva of Kol Torah and leading posek of his time.
- Rabbi Moshe Aharon Poleyeff, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University.
- Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Zelaznik, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Etz Chaim.
- Rabbi Shimon Zelaznik, (the above's brother) Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshivat Shaalvim
- Rabbi Shlomo Goren, former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel.
- Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, founder of Ezras Torah
- Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov Fisher
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