Eliezer Manoach Palchinsky (Hebrew: אליעזר מנוח פלצינסקי; November 18, 1912 – October 6, 2007),[1] also spelled Paltzinsky, Platchinsky and Platinsky, was a rosh yeshiva in Jerusalem for nearly 60 years.
He was born on 28 Cheshvan 5673 (November 18, 1912) in the town of Vishki, Vitebsk Governorate, at the time in the Russian Empire, today in Latvia.
His father, Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Palchinsky, was the av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of Vishki.
Palchinsky would spend every Pesach break in Dvinsk, where he maintained a regular study session with Joseph Rosen.
In 1937, he was selected by the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, to join an elite group of Mir students sent to learn under Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik in Brisk.
[1] Palchinsky survived the Holocaust through the efforts of Rabbi Mordecai Dubin, an Agudath Israel activist.
[citation needed] During the 1948 War of Independence, Palchinsky delivered shiurim at Yeshivas Heichal HaTalmud in Tel Aviv.