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Upon the outbreak of [[World War I]], Rabbi Greenspan immigrated to [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and became rosh yeshiva in [[Glasgow]] and then [[Leeds]], having lived in [[Liverpool]] in the interim. He finally moved to the [[East End]] of London, where he assumed leadership of the Etz Chaim yeshiva. Rabbi Greenspan remained at Etz Chaim for the rest of his life, where he produced many hundreds of learned students and pupils alongside distinguished colleagues such as Rabbis [[Elya Lopian]], [[Leib Gurwicz]] and [[Nosson Ordman]]. Among his more well-known students
Rabbi Greenspan died at the age of eighty-three, and with his death Europe lost one of its primary and most exceptional Torah scholars. A large number of people attended his funeral, where he was eulogised by [[Chief Rabbi]] [[Israel Brodie]], Rabbi Leib Gurwicz, [[Leib Grossnass|Dayan Grosnass]] of the [[London Beth Din]] and Rabbi Eliezer Lopian, rosh yeshiva of Toras Emes in London.
Writing of Rabbi Greenspan in the [[Jewish Chronicle]], Rabbi Nosson Ordman described his deceased colleague as the "humblest and most well-mannered of men" despite his "scholarship and intellectual" abilities. He noted that Rabbi Greenspan's death was "a great and irreplaceable loss both to the yeshiva and Anglo-Jewry. He was... one of the outstanding... Talmudists of this generation". Rabbi Jakobovits, in deep reveration of Rabbi Greenspan, commented, "he may have been the greatest Torah scholar in England" and also noted his teacher's great modesty and knowledge of secular disciplines.
Rabbi Greenspan was survived by his wife and two daughters. Although he left many [[Halachic]] and Talmudic writings, a lage number of his written manuscripts were destroyed in the [[World War I|First World War]].
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