Aryeh Levin (Hebrew: אריה לוין; March 22, 1885 - March 28, 1969) was an Orthodox rabbi dubbed the "Father of Prisoners" for his visits to members of the Jewish underground imprisoned in the Central Prison of Jerusalem in the Russian Compound during the British Mandate.

He was tutored by local teachers until the age of 12, and then left home to attend the great yeshivas of Slonim, Slutsk, Volozhin and Brisk.

In 1931, at the request of the British Mandate authorities, Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook appointed Reb Aryeh Levin the official Jewish Prison Chaplain, a position he informally had filled since 1927.

He would walk from his home in Nachlaot to visit the Jewish prisoners held in the Russian Compound on charges of arms possession or smuggling.

Mattityahu Shmuelevitz, whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, wrote to a friend: “Yet there is one person in particular to whom I remain grateful first and foremost; a dear, precious Jew about whom you told me nothing; but it was he who stormed heaven and earth for me; and more important — it was he who brought me closer to my Maker in those fateful days...

All I ask of you is this: Tell your children: There was an old Jew in Jerusalem who loved us so very much!” With that, he burst into tears, and among the thousands of people there, not a dry eye was to be found.

At the beds of these forgotten souls whom no relatives came to see, he would linger, caressing each one's hand and giving him words of encouragement and cheer.

Reb Aryeh began this holy practice after he had found a woman weeping bitterly by the Western Wall.

"[4] After the 1947–1949 Palestine war, Rabbi Levin invoked a ritual known as Goral Hagra in order to identify the mutilated remains of 12 Jewish fighters of the Convoy of 35.

So for me the adjustment will be easier, my room isn't much bigger.”[9] "Reb Aryeh fulfilled the Talmudic law that 'One must love his wife like himself, and honor and respect her more than himself'.

He answered that "most couples with marital problems are worried about their reputations, so they all want to come here (discreetly) in the late hours of the night.

"[15] In 1925, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer was appointed to head the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and Levin was made the Mashgiach (spiritual advisor).

One day chocolate pudding was served and the boy wolfed it down and got back in line asking for another portion.