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Moshe Mordechai Epstein
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “talmudist and the rosh yeshiva of the slabodka yeshiva”. Today it says “rosh yeshiva of yeshiva knesseth yisrael in slabodka”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “talmudist and the rosh yeshiva of the slabodka yeshiva”. Today it says “rosh yeshiva of yeshiva knesseth yisrael in slabodka”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
He authored the Levush Mordechai . His friendship with Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel , the Yeshiva's mashgiach ruchani (spiritual counsellor) was well known. v t e1
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Then
talmudist and the rosh yeshiva of the slabodka yeshiva
Now
rosh yeshiva of yeshiva knesseth yisrael in slabodka
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