Ahron Soloveichik

Ahron (Aaron) Soloveichik[1] (Hebrew: אהרן סולובייצ'יק; 1918[2] – October 4, 2001) was an Orthodox Jewish rosh yeshiva (seminary dean) and scholar of Talmud and halakha.

[4] Soloveichik celebrated his bar mitzvah in Warsaw and then immigrated with his family to join his father in the United States in 1930.

Soloveichik's first teaching position was in Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem then headed by Moshe Feinstein, from whom he received his semikhah (rabbinic ordination).

Shortly thereafter Soloveichik was appointed by Hutner to give the highest daily lecture in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin.

Although a stroke in 1983 left him partially paralyzed he continued his duties at Yeshivas Brisk in Chicago and flew to New York every week to deliver a Talmudic lecture at Yeshiva University (a position he accepted after his older brother Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik became ill and was unable to continue lecturing).