Avrohom Gurwicz

Avrohom Gurwicz is an English-born Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar.

Since 1982 he has been the rosh yeshivah of Gateshead Talmudical College, a yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he has been giving the largest shiur (Torah lecture) in Europe with approximately 400 students attending, for approximately half a century.

Additionally, he is the president of Gateshead Community Kollel,[1] established 2021.

[3] He is a brother-in-law (through his sister Sarah) and cousin to Rabbi Tzvi Kushelevsky, head of the Heichal Hatorah beTzion yeshiva in Jerusalem.

[2] Among his sons-in-law is Rabbi Nissan Kaplan, the rosh yeshiva of Daas Ahron and former maggid shiur in the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem.