"Where he’s unknown I am here to introduce the value of…the esteemed and distinguished Mr. Yehuda Kravetz of Rutka, a student of our Holy yeshiva. This young man has been studying in this Holy yeshiva for six years…and his virtues are destined, God willing, to make him one of the great scholars in Torah and piety."
Radin, 1930. 28 Cm.
The Gaon Rabbi Baruch Yosef Feivelson (1895-1933), son of Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Feivelson and son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Trop was renowned from a young age as one of the foremost Torah scholars of Lithuanian yeshivas and leading alumnus of the Slobodka Yeshiva and close disciple of Rabbi Yitzchak Ya’akov Rabinowitz Rabbi of Ponovezh (Rabbi Itze’le of Ponovezh). In 1929, he was appointed teacher in the Radin Yeshiva succeeding his father-in-law, and was very successful in this capacity. His deep scholarly discourses invigorated the learning atmosphere of the yeshiva and many anticipated great success for the yeshiva with R. Feivelson part of the staff. Sadly, he died at the age of 38 after only four years of delivering his Torah discourses.
During WWII, his wife and children exiled to Siberia, some survived the war and immigrated to Eretz Israel (one son established a kollel and yeshiva in Safed and his brother established Kollel Radin in Kadima). About 50 years after his death, the Sefer Birkat Yosef was published (Bnei Brak, 1983). The approbations of the Sefer indicate the high regard Lithuanian yeshiva scholars had for Rabbi Feivelson and the bright future they anticipated for him. Rabbi Ya’akov Kamenetsky writes that "…he lights the eyes of those who study at the Radin Yeshiva and he was famous in the entire yeshiva world as a great Torah scholar and amazing author of novellae, and although he died so young he was considered one of the leading heads of yeshivas in his days. I remember his youthful days in the Slobodka Yeshiva, he startled the yeshiva students with his sharpness and he excelled more than any other student in his time…". Harav Shach wrote: "…he was well-known and famous in the generation preceding the war…I knew him from his youth, already from 1911 at the time he studied in Ponovezh in the kibbutz (gathering of yeshiva students) of…Rabbi Itze’le Ponovezher and his name was legendary and now after I studied his writings, I see that all his words were said with depth and sharpness alike…".
The Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Kravetz of Rutka studied in Radin Yeshiva for 6 years & was later Roshe Yeshiva of Yeshivas Tiferet Tzvi in Jerusalem
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