Moshe Hillel Hirsch

Moshe Hillel Hirsch is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Slabodka in Bnei Brak, Israel.

Rabbinic career

In 1982, after the death of his father-in-law Mordechai Shulman, he was appointed head of the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, alongside his brother-in-law Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Shulman and Rabbi Amram Zaks. Other heads of the yeshiva appointed include Rabbi Dov Landau and Rabbi Baruch Rosenberg.
Hirsch is very involved in the halakhic leadership of Haredi Judaism. Despite living in Israel, Hirsch is quite well known on the haredi rabbinical speaking circuit in America Hirsch eulogized Noach Weinberg, well known for founding Aish Hatorah, for an English-speaking audience.
Hirsch leads the 'HaMeshivim' organization, supporting hundreds of avrechim in Lithuanian yeshivas across Israel, and guides the Lev Shomea organization for struggling youth.
Close to Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, he was appointed to the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah in 2012 and is increasingly involved in public and educational matters, including the establishment of yeshivas and issues of yeshiva students' engagement with society.

Early life and education

Hirsch was born October 26, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York City, to Romanian immigrants David and Malvina Hirsch and was raised in the Borough Park neighborhood in Brooklyn together with his brother Elias and twin sisters Judith and Lila. He studied at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood under the Talmudic tutelage of Rabbi Aharon Kotler.
Hirsch married Avigail Shulman in 1963, and permanently moved to Israel where he had two children.