Rabbi Yitzchok Leib Epstein
יצחק ליב ב"ר עזיאל זעליג
Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivas Rabbeinu Mordechai RosenblatDate of Death:
Fri. August 5, 1938 -
Av 8 5698
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Directions to Kever: Mount Judah Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Society: MORD ROSENBLATT, Section: 2 (office side), Block: 14, Gate: 2, Path: L02, At the entrance of the cemetery, third section to the right
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: EPSTEIN, ISAAC LIEB
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Announcing Rav Epstein appointment to the Anshei Slutsk Shul, Credit: MCA
Photo Caption: Rav Epstein’s letterhead from the Knesseth HaRabonim, Credit: MCA
In Memorial:
Rabbi Mordechai Veitzel Rosenblatt, Chief Rabbi of Ashmina (d. 1916)
Credit: MCA
Credit: Needed
Bio Information:
Rabbi Mordechai Veitzel Rosenblatt, or better known as Rabbi Mottele Oshminer was one of the greatest and most famous sages in the 19th and early twentieth century. It was said that three pictures hung on the wall of every Jewish home in Lithuania; the photo of Rabbi Nochum of Horodna, Rabbi Yitzchok Elchonon Spector, and Rabbi Mottele Oshminer.
Source: RABBI MEIR BAAL HANEIS SALANT
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Rabbi Epstien served as the Rabbinic Secretary of the Kneset Harabanim under the presidency of Rabbi Gavriel Zev (Velvel) Margulis Z”l in New York.
What or where was Yeshivas Rabbeinu Mordechai Rosenblatt?
Rav Epstein was the Moreh D’Asra of the Bialistock Shul in NY.
Here is a haskama of his: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=2129&st=&pgnum=3&hilite=.
Any relation to Rav Zeidel Epstein? His father’s name was Reb Yitzchok Aryeh, and arrived in the US sometime in the ’30s.
This is from דער מארגען זשורנאל of November 1, 1918 p.10 to announce the selection of R. Epstein as the new rav of the Slutzker shul (קהילת אנשי סלוצק) on 34 Pike Street in the Lower East Side.
http://www.jpress.nli.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=e11Y%2BoHvLt9GXpZJPDsWSiPzGZdA0fktJnY49dpO9CdN15y1wrV0RmcSDpkEuffrYw%3D%3D&mode=image&href=TJM%2F1918%2F11%2F01&page=10&rtl=true
Does anyone have information about the 13th Rebbe of Slonim, Mordechai Rosenblatt and his children?
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he was also a rav in khal beis avrohom in toledo ohio