Yechiel Michel Feinstein
| Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein | |
|---|---|
| Rosh Yeshiva, Beis Yehuda | |
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Beis Yehuda |
| Began | 1952 |
| Ended | 2003 |
| Predecessor | none |
| Successor | Rabbi Chaim Feinstein |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Yechiel Michel Feinstein |
| Born | 27 June 1906 Uzda, Lithuania |
| Died | 15 May 2003 Bnei Brak, Israel |
| Buried | Har HaMenuchos |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Residence | Bnei Brak, Israel |
| Parents | Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Feinstein |
| Spouse | Lifsha Soloveitchik |
| Children | Chaim Dovid Avrohom daughters |
| Alma mater | Mir yeshiva (Poland) |
Yechiel Michel Feinstein (27 June 1906 – 17 May 2003) was a Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Israel and the United States.
He was born to Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Feinstein in the town of Uzda, Lithuania, a town near Minsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian empire. He was orphaned of his father at the age of seven and went to live with and learn from his grandfather, Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, the Rav of Stravin, Byelorussia. It was there that Yechiel Michel developed a close relationship with his uncles, Rabbi Mordechai Feinstein and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
From a young age, he was recognized as a prodigy. He was sent to Slutsk after his bar mitzvah to study under Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer.
When the Bolsheviks revolted, the yeshiva was forced to flee from Lithuania to Kletsk, Poland. During his three years in Kletsk, Yechiel Michel attended the famed Talmudic lectures of Rabbi Meltzer and his son-in-law, Rabbi Aharon Kotler. Then he transferred to the Mir yeshiva, where he became a leading student of Rabbi Yeruchom Lebovitz and learned together with Rabbi Yechiel Michel Schlesinger, future rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Kol Torah in Jerusalem, and Rabbi Yonah Karpilow of Minsk, who was killed in the Holocaust and whose Yonas Eilem was published posthumously. At this time, Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz and Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin also studied in the Mir yeshiva. Despite being surrounding by such luminaries in Torah, R' Yechiel Michel was nonetheless thought of as "the genius of the yeshiva".
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