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The of the lust de mir (or Yeshiva De Mir ) (Hebrew : Mir Yeshiva , Yeshivas Mir ), known as the Mirrer Yeshiva or To me , is an Orthodox Yechiva of Lithuanian Rite of Jerusalem in Israel. With 6,000 students, it is the largest Yechiva in Israel ^{[ first ]} . Many students come from the United States and Canada. It is the largest Yechiva in the world ^{[ 2 ]} . The Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel is Rosh Yeshiva of Yechiva in Jerusalem until his disappearance, the November 8, 2011 . His son, Rabbi Eliézer Yehouda Finkel succeeds him.

Yeshiva de Mir, built in 1817 in current Belarus, c. 1931

The Yechiva de Mir was founded in 1814 by the Rabbi Shmouel Tiktinsky in the small town of Mir, in current Belarus. After his disappearance, his younger son, Haim Leib Tiktinsky, was named Rosh Yeshiva, then it will be his grandson, Avrohom Tiktinsky. It was under his direction that Eliyahu Boruch Kamai comes to teach the Yechiva. In 1903, the daughter of the Rabbi Kamai married the Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (Reb Leizer Yudel), the son of the Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, who took the direction of the Yechiva after the death of her stepfather.

During the First World War, the Yechiva moved to Poltava in Ukraine. The Yeshiva returned, in 1921, to Mir, where it remains until the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939.

Many students start from Yechiva when the Red Army of the Soviet Union invaded by the East, but the Yechiva continues to operate, with a reduction in staff, to the approach of the German army which obliges Yechiva leaders to move the whole community to Keidan in Lithuania.

Of de mir, par anatail and Livaev /, 1956

About that time, the Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel travels in Palestine agent to obtain visas for his students and to restore the Yechiva in the land of Israel, but his plans were interrupted by the triggering of the Second World War. In 1944, Rabbi Finkel opened a Yechiva branch in Jerusalem with a dozen students, among them the Rabbi Yudel Shapiro (later Rosh Kollel Chazon Ish), the Rabbi Haïm Brim (Rosh Yeshiva Rizhn-Boyan, and Rabbi Haïm Greineman ^{[ 3 ]} .

As the German armies continued to push to the east, the students of the Yechiva fled to Shanghai in China, thanks to the transit visas for Japan delivered by Chune Sugihara, Consul General of Japan in Lithuania, then breaking the orders of His hierarchy, recognized just among nations in 1985 ^{[ 4 ]} . The students of Mir Refugees in Shanghai stayed there until the end of the war.

The history of the escape to the Far East of the Yeshiva of Mir, with thousands of other Jewish refugees during the Second World War, was the subject of several books and films, including the documentary of PBS Conspiracy of Kindness ^{[ 5 ]} .

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After the war, most of the Jewish refugees from the Shanghai ghetto leave for Palestine and the United States. Among them are the survivors of the Yeshiva de Mir, many of whom joined the Yechiva in Jerusalem.

When Rabbi Finkel dies the July 19, 1965 (19 Tammouz 5725), his son, the Rabbi Beinish Finkel and his brother-in-law, the Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz become the Rosh Yeshiva. Reb Chaim is considered the main Rosh Yeshiva and when he dies, his nephew, the Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, replaces him. The Rabbi Beinish Finkel becomes Rosh Yeshiva after the death of the Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz. On the death of the Rabbi Beinish in 1990, his nephew and son -in -law, the Rabbi Nathan Tsvi Finkel became Rosh Yeshiva. After the sudden death of the latter, the November 8, 2011 , his eldest son, Rabbi Eliézer Yehouda Finkel, is appointed as successor to his father ^{[ 6 ]} .

Holy Ark of the Synagogue of the Yeshiva of Mir, Jerusalem

There are different courses offered to students in the Yechiva. Currently, the Rabbi Asher Arieli, gives a course (shiour) In Yiddish, around 600 students in its course ^{[ first ]} , in fact the largest audience for a daily course in a Yechiva, in the world.

The Yechiva has a recent branch in Modi’in is mainly for the Israelis, including a Kollel. Mir Brachfeld is led by Rabbi Aryeh Finkel, grandson of the Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel.

• Eliezer Yehuda Finkel – Rosh Yeshiva
• Refoel Shmuelevitz
• Yitzchok Ezrachi  (in)
• Aharon Chodosh –Mashgia’h Rou’hani
• Aryeh Finkel – Rosh Yeshiva, Mir Brachfeld
• Binyomin Carlebach
• Nachman Levovitz
• Yisroel Glustein

Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Toldot Yeshivat Mir , Zinowitz, M., Tel Aviv, 1981.