Ahron Soloveichik

Ahron (Aaron) Soloveichik;(Hebrew: אהרן סולובייצ'יק‎‎; May 1, 1917 - October 4, 2001) was a renowned scholar of Talmud, Halakha and a Rosh Yeshiva; known especially within circles of Orthodox Judaism.

The youngest of five children, Soloveichik was born to Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik in Khislavichi, Russia, at which time his father was the rabbi of that town. Rabbi Dr. Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (referred to, in Modern Orthodox circles, as "The Rav") and Dr. Samuel Soloveichik were his older brothers.

His family first moved to Poland in 1920. Before his father moved to New York in 1929, Rav Moshe engaged his student Rav Yitzchok Hutner to become Ahron's rebbe. Rav Ahron was Rav Hutner's first student. Ahron celebrated his Bar-Mitzvah in Warsaw, and then immigrated with his family to join his father in the United States in 1930. After he graduated from Yeshiva College, he went to law school at New York University (NYU) and graduated with a law degree in 1946. He then spent the next 20 years teaching at yeshivas in New York City.

Rabbi Soloveichik's first teaching position was in Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem then headed by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, from whom he received his Semicha (Rabbinic Ordination). Shortly thereafter Soloveichik was appointed by Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner to give the highest daily lecture in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Soloveichik's final position in New York was at Yeshiva University, where he instituted a popular weekly hashkafa class in addition to giving one of the advanced daily Talmud classes. It was during this time that Soloveichik was honored as Lecturer of the Year at YU, the first Rabbi to be so honored.

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