
- Rabbi Moshe Hakohen Lessin
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Rabbi Lessin was born in Kapoli, Minsk. He received his rabbinical training in Yeshivat Knesset Yisroel from 1905 until 1912, and was a prominent talmid of the Sabah, the famed Rabbi Finkel of Slobodka. He attended to the personal needs of the Sabah and absorbed his teachings. He received semikhah from Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein zt’l, the noted Slobodka rosh yeshiva, and Rabbi Boruch Dov Leibowitz zt’l, rosh yeshiva of Kaminetz. He served as a rabbi in Lithuania, specifically in the cities of Gertigoli and Neishtat-Sugind. In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, he came to America and served for three years as a rabbi in Boston. He founded yeshivot in Chelsea and Dorchester. In 1942, he was appointed mashgiach ruchani of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary by its president, Rabbi Samuel Belkin zt’l. Rabbi Lessin had great impact upon the lives of many students who acquired an appreciation of the fear and service of Heaven from him. He authored three works of mussar: Derech Chaim; Orach Chaim; and Hamaor Shebatorah.
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Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Miriam & Alan Goldberg and Ruth Peyser Kestenbaum to mark the twelfth yahrtzeit of their father, Irwin Peyser, Harav Yisroel Chaim ben R' Dovid V' Fraidah Raizel Peyser and by Francine Lashinsky and Dr. Alexander and Meryl Weingarten in memory of Mary Wininger, Matel bat Ephraim, z"l on the occasion of her yahrzeit on the 29th of Shevat and in honor of their children, Mark, Michael, Julie, Marnie and Michelle, and in gratitude to Hashem for the release of Agam bat Meirav Berger and for the zechut of the other hostages and the chayalim