Bidspirit auction | Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (1877-1965)

Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (1877-1965) was the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir for many years. When he was a boy he studied under Gedolei Hador including Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, the Chafetz Chaim of Radin and Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamai, whose daughter he married. After his father-in-law’s passing he served as the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir through its journey across Europe and to Jerusalem after the war, until his passing in 1965.