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Yechezkel Sarna
Yechezkel Sarna (Hebrew: יחזקאל סרנה; 1890–1969) was a disciple of Nosson Tzvi Finkel, spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva. He was sent by Finkel to move the yeshiva from Europe to Hebron in 1925, and following the 1929 Hebron massacre, to Jerusalem. In 1934, he became rosh yeshiva (dean).
Sarna was born in Horodok, Russia, on 28 Shevat in 1890. His father, Yaakov Chaim, was the city's shochet (kosher slaughterer) and melamed, (schoolteacher and later its maggid (preacher). Sarna's mother, Aidel, was the daughter of Shlomo Zalman Buxenbaum, a hassid of the Chiddushei Harim, and author of Rechovos Ir, a commentary on Midrash Rabba.
When he was 11 he was sent to the Ohr Hachaim yeshiva in Slabodka, headed by Tzvi Levitan, a student of l Simcha Zissel Ziv. In 1902, he went to Maltsch to study under the Chief Rabbi there, Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro. Later he returned to Slabodka to study under Chaim Rabinowitz in Knesses Beis Yitzchok.
In 1904 Sarna was one of the students who went with Rabinowitz when he moved to the Telz Yeshiva. When the yeshiva temporarily closed in 1906, Sarna returned to Maltsch, studying under Shimon Shkop. A year later he returned to Knesses Yisroel Yeshiva in Slabodka.
With the outbreak of World War I, the entire Slabodka yeshiva fled to Minsk. Like all of the yeshiva's students, Sarna secured forged affidavits in order to avoid being drafted. He was caught and imprisoned, escaped, and fled to the home of a relative, Yehoshua Zimbalist. Soon after, he escaped to Smilowitz where the Chofetz Chaim and his students had taken refuge.
Shortly after the Slabodka yeshiva had arrived in Minsk, which was near the battlefront, it was forced to flee to a safer city, Kremenchuk. Sarna did not rejoin the yeshiva and remained in Smilowitz, studying for a year and a half in an inn with the students of the Raduń Yeshiva. During this period, he developed close relationships with the Chofetz Chaim and Raduń's rosh yeshiva, Naftoli Trop.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 Sarna returned to the Knesses Yisroel yeshiva in Kremenchuk. Two years later he married Pesha Miriam Epstein, the daughter of Moshe Mordechai Epstein, one of the roshei yeshiva (deans).
Shortly after World War I the yeshiva left Russia and returned to Slabodka, which after the war was re-annexed to Lithuania. He held no official position in the yeshiva there.
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Yechezkel Sarna
Yechezkel Sarna (Hebrew: יחזקאל סרנה; 1890–1969) was a disciple of Nosson Tzvi Finkel, spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva. He was sent by Finkel to move the yeshiva from Europe to Hebron in 1925, and following the 1929 Hebron massacre, to Jerusalem. In 1934, he became rosh yeshiva (dean).
Sarna was born in Horodok, Russia, on 28 Shevat in 1890. His father, Yaakov Chaim, was the city's shochet (kosher slaughterer) and melamed, (schoolteacher and later its maggid (preacher). Sarna's mother, Aidel, was the daughter of Shlomo Zalman Buxenbaum, a hassid of the Chiddushei Harim, and author of Rechovos Ir, a commentary on Midrash Rabba.
When he was 11 he was sent to the Ohr Hachaim yeshiva in Slabodka, headed by Tzvi Levitan, a student of l Simcha Zissel Ziv. In 1902, he went to Maltsch to study under the Chief Rabbi there, Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro. Later he returned to Slabodka to study under Chaim Rabinowitz in Knesses Beis Yitzchok.
In 1904 Sarna was one of the students who went with Rabinowitz when he moved to the Telz Yeshiva. When the yeshiva temporarily closed in 1906, Sarna returned to Maltsch, studying under Shimon Shkop. A year later he returned to Knesses Yisroel Yeshiva in Slabodka.
With the outbreak of World War I, the entire Slabodka yeshiva fled to Minsk. Like all of the yeshiva's students, Sarna secured forged affidavits in order to avoid being drafted. He was caught and imprisoned, escaped, and fled to the home of a relative, Yehoshua Zimbalist. Soon after, he escaped to Smilowitz where the Chofetz Chaim and his students had taken refuge.
Shortly after the Slabodka yeshiva had arrived in Minsk, which was near the battlefront, it was forced to flee to a safer city, Kremenchuk. Sarna did not rejoin the yeshiva and remained in Smilowitz, studying for a year and a half in an inn with the students of the Raduń Yeshiva. During this period, he developed close relationships with the Chofetz Chaim and Raduń's rosh yeshiva, Naftoli Trop.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 Sarna returned to the Knesses Yisroel yeshiva in Kremenchuk. Two years later he married Pesha Miriam Epstein, the daughter of Moshe Mordechai Epstein, one of the roshei yeshiva (deans).
Shortly after World War I the yeshiva left Russia and returned to Slabodka, which after the war was re-annexed to Lithuania. He held no official position in the yeshiva there.
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