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The Mir Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת מיר, Yeshivat Mir), known also as The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem.With over 9,000 single and married students, [1] it is the largest yeshiva in the world.
Category: Orthodox yeshivas in Jerusalem. ... Midrash Shmuel Yeshiva; Mir Yeshiva (Jerusalem) O. Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem; P. Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok; Porat Yosef Yeshiva;
This is a list of yeshivas, midrashas, and Hebrew schools in Israel and the West Bank. In Orthodox Judaism a yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבה) is an educational institution where men can study the Torah, the Talmud, and develop their character. A yeshiva usually is led by a rabbi called a rosh yeshiva (head of the yeshiva).
Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel (12 March 1943 – 8 November 2011) was an American-born Haredi Litvish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel.During his tenure from 1990 until his death in 2011, the Mir Yeshiva grew into the largest yeshiva in Israel with nearly 6,000 undergraduate students [2] and over 1,600 avreichim (married students).
Finkel (left) and Rabbi Refoel Partzovitz. Finkel was named after his maternal great-grandfather, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, who became rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir yeshiva in Poland in 1917 and re-established the yeshiva in Jerusalem during World War II while the main body of the yeshiva was in exile in the Far East.
In 2000, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the rosh yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, founded a branch of his yeshiva in the Brachfeld neighborhood of Modi'in Illit. Rabbi Aryeh Finkel, a grandson of Mir rosh yeshiva Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, who had been giving a shiur in Mir Yerushalayim until then, was appointed rosh yeshiva. [1]
Later Shmuelevitz came to Jerusalem to be Rosh Yeshiva under his father-in-law. One of Finkel's sons, Rabbi Beinish Finkel succeeded his brother-in-law Shmuelevitz as Rosh Yeshiva upon the latter's death in the 1979. He founded other yeshivas, including the original yeshiva of Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik, to whom he sent some of his top students.
He then taught at his alma mater, the Mir Yeshiva, for five years. [5] [8] In 1994, the headmaster of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Yitzchok Merkin, reached out to Lopiansky, who was then serving as a maggid shiur at Mir Yerushalayim, with an offer to become the Rosh HaYeshiva of the Yeshiva Gedolah in Silver Spring, Maryland. [2]