Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Hurwitz, was born in Vilna in 1863. He began his studies at the Rameilles Yeshiva of Vilna and continued under the tutelage of Rabbi Moshe Danishevsky, Abd Slabodka. He then went on to study at the kibbutz of Eishishok (Located approximately 35 miles south-southwest of Vilna, Lithuania). He was ordained by Rav Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira and Rabbi Meir Yona Baranzki-Shatz.
At the age of 21 he was appointed Rabbi at Yesna, Lithuania.
After occupying a second post, at Koshodara (Casadora/Kaišiadorių), Rabbi Hurwitz accepted a call to the Sunderland Community in 1903, a post with which he remained for eight years until 1911. In 1911 he organised a Rabbinical Conference in Leeds. He was elected as Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues there, a post he held for 35 years until his death in 1946.
He served as the Av Beth Din of Leeds and was a member of the Chief Rabbi’s Rabbinical Commission, he became famous as gifted lecturer and took great care of the education of the youths of that generation. There in Leeds he became embroiled in an halachic dispute about the validity of a Mikvah in Leeds which did not have a receptacle of rain water. This dispute was decided in favour of Rabbi Hurwitz’s view by R’ Meir Simcha Ha-Kohen of Dvinsk "Or Sameyach" who agreed with him.
26.5 Cm.
Share this lot: