Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik


Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik is a Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva of one of the branches of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, Israel, attended by select young Talmudists, mainly from the United States.

Early life

Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik is the fifth of twelve children and the third son born to Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik and Alte Hindl, daughter of Chaim Auerbach. His exact date of his birth is unknown, but it is known that his older brother Chaim was born in January 1920 and his younger brother Refoel Yehoshua was born in spring 1924. He was named Meshulam after his maternal great grandfather, Meshulam Auerbach, who proposed the shidduch between his granddaughter and the son of Chaim Soloveitchik. Soloveitchik emigrated to Mandatory Palestine with his father during World War II, and they settled in Jerusalem. He married the daughter of Asher Sternbuch of London. He is the brother-in-law of Moishe Sternbuch and Chanoch Ehrentreu.

Rosh yeshiva

In the late 1970s, Soloveitchik opened his yeshiva in the Gush Shemonim section of the Givat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem.
One of his students was Mosheh Twersky. He has yet to personally publish any works on the Talmud, but many of his works have been published by his students, especially in the latest Mishor prints of his father's works. He rarely gives approbations to new books.
Soloveitchik is considered by Briskers to be one of the last authentic remnants of a pre-World War II Jewish Lithuania, and is often quoted for his memories of his father's and grandfather's lives and teachings.
Soloveitchik's son, Velvel, who is the son in-law of Berel Povarsky is a maggid shiur in his father's yeshiva. His daughter is married to Nechemya Kaplan, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar HaTalmud in Jerusalem.

Works