14 Comments

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   curios on February 22, 2011 at 2:11 am

   Interesting that there’s no last nmae.

   Ohr Hachaim Yeshiva was known as Reb Hershel Slabodkerer’s Yeshiva. His name was Reb Hershel Levitan. The Yeshiva was founded by the Alter of Slabodka for younger boys.

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   curios on February 22, 2011 at 2:16 am

   His last name was Dzikansky. See here: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=22906&st=&pgnum=63&hilite=.

   His wife was a granddaughter of the above mentioned Reb Hershel.
   His father-in-law Reb Avigdor Menkovitz had other choshuver sons-in-law, among them Reb Yisroel Isser Shapiro, the son of Reb Refoel from Volozhin.

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   curios on February 22, 2011 at 2:20 am

   See also here: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=28680&st=&pgnum=10&hilite=.

   (On the right side, there is about Rabbi Shochatowitz).

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   YD Miller on February 22, 2011 at 12:04 pm

   There is a famous retired NYPD Detective Mordechai Zev Dzikansky who was the 3rd Orthodox jeww to join the NYPD in 1983,

   He ended up traveling the world in the fight against terror and authored the book “Terrorist Cop: The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists”

   I would assume that he is a Einikel and namesake of this Rosh Yeshiva

   http://www.police-writers.com/mordecai_dzikansky.html

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   Farshlufen on February 22, 2011 at 2:11 pm

   http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=28531&st=&pgnum=106

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   Adina Kutnicki,Israel on February 23, 2011 at 10:28 am

   Shalom,

   You all are good detectives, just like his namesake, NYPD(ret)Homicide Detective, First Grade,Mordecai Zev Dzikansky.
   I never knew my grandfather because he died before I was born, but suffice it to say, I got used to ‘special’ treatment in my schools when the Rabbis found out I was ‘that’ Dzikansky.
   I do know that his last years were spent as a Rosh Yeshiva at MTJ on the lower east side of NYC. He was so beloved that when he suffered a stroke his talmidim insisted on learning at his home, sitting alongside him to glean any wisdom they could.
   The revered Rabbi Moshe Feinstein took my grandfather’s place when he became too ill.

   It is very special that people posted it.Our family will be delighted.

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   curios on February 23, 2011 at 6:59 pm

   Adina, see here too: http://www.otzar.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4055.

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   Adina Kutnicki, Israel on February 24, 2011 at 6:07 am

   Curios, thanks for the additional link. By the way, the picture my son Chaim posted above is one that my sister Navah, and our father, Rabbi Jekuthiel Dzikansky z”l, kept hung on their walls.It is a family favorite.His grandchildren always noted the ‘twinkle’ in his eye from that picture, most likely he would have been a very kind grandfather/saba.We always felt we missed something by not having him in our lives.

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   YD Miller on February 24, 2011 at 3:35 pm

   Adinah,
   Where was your father a Rabbi and where is he burried?
   I saw your son had the date of your Grandfather’s passing wrong on his website, is this the first time you see his Matzeive/Tombstone?
   Is the above mentioned detective Mordy Dzikansky your brother?

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    Adina Kutnicki, Israel on February 24, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    YD Miller, my father was a Rabbi at YU for 45 years, when he first came from Europe he was teaching the smicha students at REITS.Even though he did not speak any English they were thrilled to have a Rabbi from Telz Yeshiva in Europe, a son of Rabbi Mordecai Zev Dzikansky on board.
    My father, Rabbi Jekuthiel Dzikansky, z”l, is buried at Beth Moses Cemetery in Pine Lawn, Long Island.
    My grandfather ‘s yarzheit is the 14th of Cheshvan.
    Yes, ‘Morty’ Dzikansky is my brother, the famous anti-terror cop, a worldwide expert(of all things!) in suicide bombings.

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    curios on November 22, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Adina,
    The correct Yohrzeit date is definitely on 15th of Cheshvan, and not the 14th – check up a calendar and you will see that Shabbos is on the 15th.

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    archivesmls on April 10, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    curios,

    Was the Ohr HaChaim Yeshiva located in the same building as Kloyz Po’alei-Tsedek (the Tailor’s Shul) in Slobodka?

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    curios on April 14, 2013 at 1:43 am

    All I know is that it was situated in the Chevra Halvayas Hames, possible that that is the same as the one you mention. See for example here towards the bottom of the first column: http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=25152&st=&pgnum=13&hilite=.

    There is a whole story why the Yeshiva was named Ohr Hachaim.

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    curios on April 14, 2013 at 1:48 am

    Seems it was only partly in the above mentioned shul, the Yeshiva itself had it’s own building.