Avrohom Elyashiv

Avrohom Elyashiv was the Av Beis Din of the city of Gomel

Biography

Avrohom Levinson was the son-in-law of the kabbalist, Shlomo Elyashiv, author of the Leshem Shevo V’Achlamah. He was also the father of Yosef Shalom Eliashiv. He studied under Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, known as the Chofetz Chaim, in Raduń Yeshiva and later in Dvinsk.
In 1924, he immigrated to Jerusalem along with his father-in-law, his wife Chaya Musha, and young son Yosef Shalom. Following advice from Kagan, he changed his family name from Levinson to that of his father-in-law so the family would have a uniform immigration certificate.

Rabbinic career

In Jerusalem, Elyashiv was granted semicha by Rabbi Avraham Isaac Kook.
Elyashiv founded and headed the yeshiva Tiferes Bochurim for working students, which was later headed by his son.
Elyashiv was the author of Bikkurei Avrohom.