Zvi Yosef Resnick

Rabbi Zvi (Hirsh) Yosef HaKohen Resnick (1841–1912) was a well-known orthodox Russian rabbi and Rosh yeshivah (Dean of a Talmudic Academy), also known as Rebbe Hirsch Meitsheter (reportedly because Meitshet—the Yiddish term for Molczad—was the birthplace of his wife).

Resnick lived in Zhetel (Dziatlava), a town in Belarus, and at least one of his children was born there, but it is not clear where he himself was born. He taught in Slonim for many years, where his reputation grew to such an extent that he was often referred to as The Slonimer. He was widely respected as one of the great Torah sages of his time, able to quote from the entire Talmud and its commentaries from memory. In 1894, he was appointed Dean of the famous yeshivah in Suwałki, Poland, Ohel Yitzhak, established by Rabbi Isaac Wildmann. He held this position during increasingly violent times, as evidenced by the story recorded in Yizkor-Book Suwalk, relating how he narrowly averted a severe beating by local Jews who suspected he was a Czarist spy because—as a result of poor eyesight in his later years—he would peer at them in a way that was interpreted as spying. According to this story, Hona, the local baker, recognized him as the yeshiva dean, and dispersed the gang gathering to attack him.

He remained Rosh Yeshivah until his death. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery of Suvalk alongside the great sages of the time, but in World War II the Nazis vandalized the cemetery, stealing most of the gravestones for construction projects, including a swimming pool.

The son of Yitzchak Yaakov Resnick, Resnick was a Kohen—a descendent of Aaron, the brother of Moses—and at his funeral, the eulogy delivered by Rabbi Moshe Bezalel Luria, of Suvalk, stated that if the Temple in Jerusalem were still standing, Resnick would have been worthy of serving as the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest of the Jewish people.

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