13 Facts About Eliezer Gordon

Eliezer Gordon was born in 1841 in the village of Chernyaty, Belarus, near Svir.

Eliezer Gordon's father, Avrohom Shmuel Gordon, was a student of Chaim of Volozhin.

Salanter realized that Gordon had great potential and appointed him as a maggid shiur in the yeshiva at a young age.

On Tuesday, 24 March 1874, Eliezer Gordon took over the position of Chief Rabbi at Kelm, where he remained for nine years and founded a Yeshiva.

Eliezer Gordon finally relocated to Telz in 1884, to serve as Rabbi.

In 1883 Eliezer Gordon became the rabbi of Telz; in 1884 he was appointed head of the fledgling institution.

Eliezer Gordon instituted numerous innovative ideas in the yeshiva which have since become accepted as standard practice in many contemporary yeshivas:.

Eliezer Gordon felt that important to the success of the yeshiva was employing the highest standard of teachers.

Eliezer Gordon tried, unsuccessfully to hire Yitzchok Yaakov Rabinowitz to teach at the yeshiva.

Eliezer Gordon was very vocal in his opposition to Zionism and wrote and spoke much on the subject.

Eliezer Gordon warned those Jews who were not yet wary of what he perceived as the evils of Zionism to just look at what Herzl himself said and wrote about the Jewish people, and they would understand what the movement was really about.

Eliezer Gordon said that those that join together with the Zionists are transgressing the sin of "V'Lo Sasim damim bveisecha" -.

Eliezer Gordon's funeral attracted one of the largest crowds London had ever seen; 50,000 mourners at its height.