1. Yechezkel Sarna was a disciple of Nosson Tzvi Finkel, spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva.
13 Facts About Yechezkel Sarna
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Yechezkel Sarna was sent by Finkel to move the yeshiva from Europe to Hebron in 1925, and following the 1929 Hebron massacre, to Jerusalem.
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In 1904 Yechezkel Sarna was one of the students who went with Rabinowitz when he moved to the Telz Yeshiva.
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Yechezkel Sarna was caught and imprisoned, escaped, and fled to the home of a relative, Yehoshua Zimbalist.
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Yechezkel 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 Radun Yeshiva.
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Yechezkel Sarna held no official position in the yeshiva there.
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Yechezkel Sarna was sent to Eretz Yisroel to choose a site for the yeshiva and to coordinate its establishment there.
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At that period, Yechezkel Sarna assumed a significant role in the yeshiva's leadership, delivering shiurim and coordinating study schedules.
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Yechezkel Sarna renamed it "Hebron", in memory of those who were massacred in that city.
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When his father-in-law, Moshe Mordechai, died in 1933, four years after the Hebron Massacre, Rav Yechezkel Sarna was officially appointed rosh yeshiva of Hebron.
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Yechezkel Sarna was among the founders of the Vaad Yeshivos, and was active in the Vaad Hatzalah.
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Yechezkel Sarna was a member of Agudas Yisroel's Council of Torah Sages.
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Yechezkel Sarna died on 6 Elul and was buried beside his father-in-law, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, on the Mount of Olives.