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Yerucham Olshin

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Yerucham Olshin is an Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages). He is one of the four roshei yeshiva (deans) of Beth Medrash Govoha , an Orthodox yeshiva located in Lakewood , New Jersey . The other rosh yeshivas are Rabbis Malkiel Kotler , Yisroel Neuman , and Dovid Schustal ; they divide up the times they present shiurim (Torah lectures) to students on the Lakewood campus.1 Olshin's works about Jewish holidays have been published under the title Yareach L'Moadim . Olshin was a student of Rabbis Eliyahu Moshe Shisgal (son in law of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ), Abba Berman , and Shneur Kotler . He is married to Shalva, the daughter of Rabbi Dov Schwartzman , who is a granddaughter of the founder of the yeshiva, Rabbi Aharon Kotler .2 By: The “Hamodia Staff” (September 14, 2020). The World of the Yeshiva: An intimate portrait of Orthodox Jewry .

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one of the roshei yeshiva of beth medrash govoha in lakewood

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orthodox rabbi and a member of the moetzes gedolei hatorah

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