Dov Schwartzman

Who was Dov Schwartzman?

Dov Schwartzman, also called Berel Schwartzman, was a Haredi Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Bais Hatalmud, which he founded in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem and led for over 40 years. He also founded and led the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia together with Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky, and co-founded the first yeshiva in Israel for baalei teshuva. He taught and influenced tens of thousands of students, many of whom received semicha from him and went on to lead their own communities. He was renowned as a Talmudic genius and was conversant in all areas of Torah and Kabbalah.