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Line 1: {{Short description\|Belarusian-Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi}} {{About\|the rabbi in New York\|the rabbi in Switzerland\|Moshe Soloveitchik (~~Zurich~~Zürich)}} {{Infobox rabbi '''Moshe Soloveichik''' (1879 in [[Valozhyn]] – January 31, 1941) was an [[Orthodox Judaism\|Orthodox]] [[rabbi]]. He was the middle son of renowned Rabbi [[Chaim Soloveitchik]] and grandson of the [[Beis HaLevi]]. He married Pesya Feinstein, daughter of the renowned Rabbi of [[Pruzany]], Rabbi [[Eliyahu Feinstein]], and first cousins with Rabbi [[Moshe Feinstein]].▼ \| honorific-prefix = Rabbi \| name = Moshe Soloveichik \| image = Moshe_Soloveichik.jpg \| caption = Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik \| birth_date = 1879 \| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1941\|01\|21\|1879\|01\|01}} \| yeshiva = Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary \| yeshiva_position = Rosh Yeshiva \| denomination = Orthodox Judaism }} '''Moshe Soloveichik''' (1879 – January 21, 1941) was an [[Orthodox Judaism\|Orthodox]] [[rabbi]]. He was [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] of [[Yeshiva University]]. ==Biography== ▲~~'''Moshe~~He ~~Soloveichik'''~~was ~~(1879~~born in [[Valozhyn]] ~~– January 31~~, ~~1941) was an [[Orthodox Judaism\|Orthodox]] [[rabbi]]. He was~~ the middle son of ~~renowned~~ Rabbi [[Chaim Soloveitchik]] and grandson of the [[Beis HaLevi]]. He married Pesya Feinstein, daughter of the ~~renowned~~ Rabbi of [[Pruzany]], Rabbi [[Eliyahu Feinstein]], and first cousins with Rabbi [[Moshe Feinstein]]. At the age of 31, he was appointed rabbi of the town of [[Raseiniai]], a position he held for three years. He also was the dean of a yeshiva in the town that [[Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)\|Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel]] of Slabodka was instrumental in founding. In 1913, he took the position of rabbi of [[Khislavichi]]. Line 8 ⟶ 23: After [[World War I]], he went to [[Poland]] in 1920, and served as the director of Talmud studies at [[:he: תחכמוני (בית ספר)\|Tachkemoni Rabbinical Seminary]] in [[Warsaw]]. From there he immigrated to New York in 1929, ~~answering the call of Rabbi Dr. [[Bernard Revel]] to join~~joining the faculty as a [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] of [[Yeshiva University]]. While Soloveichik was in New York City, his eldest son, Rabbi [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik\|]] (known as Yosef Dov]]) was working on his PhD in philosophy at the [[University of Berlin]], which he completed in 1931. The following year, Yosef Dov ~~(often referred to by his students as "The Rav" or Rav Yoshe Ber)~~ moved to [[Boston]] and became head of the Orthodox Jewish community there. When Soloveichik died in 1941 at the age of 62, Yosef Dov was asked to fill his father's place. Line 30 ⟶ 45: Rabbi [[Sam Genauer]] Rabbi [[Mordechai Gifter]] ~~Rabb~~Rabbi [[Bernard Lander]] Rabbi [[Mordechai Kirshblum]] *Rabbi Sydney Kleiman