Yeruchom Levovitz
Yeruchom Levovitz, was a mashgiach ruchani and baal mussar at the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus.
Early life
R' Yeruchom Levovitz was born in 1875 in Lyuban, in Minsk Region, Belarus to Avraham and Chasya Levovitz. He received his education in the yeshivas of Slobodka and Kelm.He was a disciple of rabbis Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and RSimcha Zissel Ziv of Kelm.
Mir Yeshiva
Levoviz was the spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus from 1910 until the outbreak of World War I and then again from 1924 until his death in 1936.After World War II, much of orthodox Jewry in Europe was wiped out, along with their many yeshivas. One of the only yeshivas to survive as a whole body was the Mir Yeshiva, which escapex to Shanghai, China, and then on to America.
Disciples
Some of his better known disciples include Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz, Chaim Shmulevitz, Dovid Povarsky, Aryeh Leib Malin, Abba Berman, Zelik Epstein, Shimon Schwab, Shlomo Wolbe, Binyomin Zeilberger, Nachum Partzovitz.He died on the 18th of Sivan in 1936 at the age of sixty-three. He is buried in the town of Mir, Belarus.
Works
His shmuessen were published posthumously by his students - mainly by his son Rav Simcha Zissel, in Daas Chochma U’mussar,and Daas Torah. After Rav Simcha Zissel's passing, his son Rav Yisroel continued his father's work and published Sifsei Da'as and Da'as Zekanim on Avos, Shivivei Da'as on Mo'adim, and just this year Da'as Binah on the Haggadah.