Avraham_Yoffen

Avraham Yoffen

Avraham Yoffen

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Avraham Yoffen (or Jofen; 1887 - April 19, 1970), also known as "Avraham Pinsker"[1][2] was a rabbi, son-in-law to Yosef Yozel Horowitz, the Alter of Novardok and director of Novardok Yeshiva. He fled to the U.S. at the outbreak of World War II and opened a yeshiva in Borough Park. In 1962 he moved to and founded a kollel in Jerusalem.[3]

Bais Yosef yeshiva

Yoffen supervised a network of satellite yeshivas in pre-World War II Poland and Ukraine, all named Yeshiva Bais Yosef. He used this name for the yeshiva he founded in Borough Park.[4]

In Europe, for a while, Yoffen had the assistance of Rabbi Gershon Liebman.

Biography

Yoffen was arrested by the Russian government[5] in 1921, along with some of his students. Two years later he went back to Poland.[1]

He was buried on Har HaMenuchot among numerous famous rabbis.

Notable students

References

  1. [1]
    "Rabbi Avraham Yoffen - The Director of the Novardok Yeshivot".
  2. [2]
    meaning of Pinsk: born near Pinsk, studied a while in Pinsk
  3. [3]
    "What Is Wisdom?". Torah.org. 31 March 2017. rosh yeshiva of the Novardok Yeshiva in Bialystok, Poland; New York and Yerushalayim
  4. [4]
    "Rabbi Nachman of Breslov z"tl". ..Avraham Yoffen, dean of the Bais Yosef yeshiva in Europe and America.
  5. [5]
    Shmuel Himelstein (2003). Wisdom & Wit: A Sparkling Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes and Advice. ISBN 1578193869. ... they arrested R' Avraham Yoffen, ...
  6. [6]
    "Letters from Rabbis". July 9, 2018. Rabbi Avraham Yoffen Rosh Yeshiva of Novardok and rabbi of the 'Steipler'.
  7. [7]
    Gelbach, Sharon (November 14, 2018). "Like His Own Children". Mishpacha (735). Retrieved February 16, 2019.[permanent dead link]


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