[2] His mother Sara Pearl was the daughter of Avraham Gelburd, the previous rabbi of Grodno.

[3] He studied at the local Sha’ar Hatorah Yeshiva and was student of Shimon Shkop.

[2] In 1935, after the death of his father, to escape being drafted into the Polish army, Rozovsky fled to British-ruled Palestine, where he studied in the Lomzha Yeshivah in Petach Tikvah, married the daughter of Tzvi Pesach Frank (Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem) and taught in the Lomzha Yeshiva.

[4] In 1944, he became Rosh Yeshiva of the newly opened Ponovezh Yeshivah in Bnei Barak.

[2] Rozovsky placed a strong emphasis on Talmudic skills, and also stressed personal perfection[5] and Mussar,[1] as well as the need to study other facets of Torah including Chumash with the commentaries of Rashi and Nachmanides.