Moshe Aharon Poleyeff


Moshe Aharon Poleyeff was an American rabbi, teaching at Yeshiva University in New York over 45 years, training generations of rabbis, including Rav Mordechai Gifter.

Biography

Moshe Aharon Poleyeff was born in 1888, in Timkovitz, near Slutsk, 98 km south of Minsk, Belarus.
He was a student of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, from whom he received his smicha in 1910.
Poleyeff arrived in the United States in 1920, and immediately began a teaching career at Yeshiva University in New York, where for about 46 years he was one of the most revered YU/RIETS Roshei Yeshiva. His Talmidim numbered in the thousands.
He also served as a synagogue rabbi in the Bronx.
Rav Poleyeff died 2 Kislev; on his 25th Yartzeit, a former student with whom he had ongoing correspondence, Rabbi Mordechai Gifter, spoke in the NYC shul of son Rabbi Yisroel Poleyeff.
For the 50th Yartzeit, YU/RIETS made a special gathering.

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