Sholom Mordechai Hakohen Schwadron (Hebrew: הרב שלום מרדכי הכהן שבדרון‎) (1912–21 December 1997) was a Haredi rabbi and orator.

He was the son of Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Schwadron, a leading halachic authority known by the Hebrew acronym Maharsham.

[10] In the seven years that he studied at Hebron yeshiva, he became the talmid muvhak (close student) of the mashgiach ruchani, Rabbi Leib Chasman.

[15] A story from the early days of Rabbi Schwadron's marriage illustrates the dire poverty found in the Auerbach household.

He and his family lived in a small, two-room apartment in the Sha'arei Hesed neighborhood of Jerusalem, which lacked a refrigerator, a bathtub, a washing machine or running water.

[13] He was the brother-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Kol Torah in Bayit Vegan, with whom he enjoyed a long and productive relationship as learning partners and friends, and Rabbi Simcha Bunim Leizerson, founding president of the Chinuch Atzmai school system.

He also taught an evening Gemara class to residents of Shaarei Chesed, the neighborhood in which he now lived, and learned each night with his brother-in-law, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.

In 1937, he was asked to deliver a more advanced evening Gemara shiur in Shaarei Chesed, a class he taught for the next 25 years.

The talks he gave to the students, as well as his personal example of total concentration in his own learning, made a lasting impression on these boys.

[21] At the urging of the Brisker Rav, Rabbi Schwadron became a spokesman for the Peylim organization, which promoted the spiritual rescue of Jewish children who had emigrated from Yemen and Morocco and were being housed in absorption camps.

[22] In 1952, Rabbi Schwadron began giving a Friday-night lecture to the public at the Zikhron Moshe shtiebel near the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem.

[23] A master at storytelling, Rabbi Schwadron was able to draw out his audience's emotions using sing-song, witty remarks, and exaggerated mannerisms before delivering the "punch line" of his call to change.

Often he punctuated the irony of human foibles with a booming laugh and the words, "Pilei ployim, hafla vafelle!

)"[8] Following is the description of one speech delivered in the Hebrew month of Elul, as Rabbi Schwadron prepared his listeners to undertake serious contemplation and teshuvah before Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur: "Imagine that the inhabitants of the local cemetery were given the opportunity by the Heavenly Court to return to this world for just one hour.

The vivid descriptions portrayed by the orator transported the crowded shul members into a dizzying whirl as they pictured the town filled up by the departed.

From the time of his marriage until into his eighties, he made a ta’anit dibbur (תענית דבור‎, abstention from speaking) every Monday and Thursday, as well as during the 40-day period from the first day of the month of Elul until Yom Kippur.

When Rabbi Schwadron announced that he was leaving after Passover 1965 to travel back to Israel by boat, the entire family saw him off at the pier.

[27] He showed great sensitivity towards Rabbi Krohn's widow, remembering his own mother's struggles to raise her orphaned children.

During the entire month of Elul, R. Shalom would undertake a Taanis Dibur, refraining from talking except for Divray Torah and mussar.