Aharon Leib Shteinman

Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman
Position	Rabbi
Position	Rosh Yeshiva
Yeshiva	Ponevezh Yeshiva L'Tzi'irim
Began	1955
Personal details
Birth name	Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman
Born	c. 1913 Brest,
Nationality	Israeli
Denomination	Haredi Judaism
Residence	Bnei Brak
Spouse	Tamar Kornfeld
Children	Rochel 3 other children
Occupation	Rabbi, Rosh yeshiva
Alma mater	Yeshivas Etz Chaim

Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (Hebrew: אהרן יהודה לייב שטינמן‎‎), also Shtainman or Steinman (born 1912-1914) is a prominent Haredi rabbi and posek (halakhic authority) in Bnei Brak, Israel. Following the death of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in 2012, he is widely regarded as the Gadol Hador (Leader of the Generation), the leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian world.

Shteinman was born and raised in Brest (Brisk), then part of the Russian Empire. He studied in Yeshivas Imrei Moshe, headed by Rabbi Moshe Skolovsky, in Brest, and attended shiurim (Torah lectures) given by Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav. He also studied in Kletzk under Rabbi Aharon Kotler.

Upon reaching draft age in 1937, he was subject to the Polish draft, as Brest had come under the control of the newly established Polish state in the aftermath of the First World War. He and his close friend, Rabbi Moische Soloveitchik (a grandson of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik) tried to evade the draft by starving themselves, but they were declared fit to serve by the draft officer. The two then fled with other Brisk students to Montreux, Switzerland, where they returned to Torah study in Yeshivas Etz Chaim. With the outbreak of World War II, the two became war refugees and were incarcerated in the Schonenberg labor camp near Basel, where nearly all the inmates were Torah-observant. Shteinman and his friend were put to work laying roads, but due to his thin frame and short stature, Shteinman was soon released from manual labor and assigned to a desk job.

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