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Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rosh yeshiva”. Today it says “russian orthodox rabbi”.
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Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin ( 1817 - 10 August 1893 ) was a rosh yeshiva (dean of a yeshiva ) and author if several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania . His name is commonly abbreviated by its consonants as Netziv (נציב), which can also mean "pillar".1
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rosh yeshiva
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russian orthodox rabbi
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