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{{Short description|Belarusian-Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi}}
{{About|the rabbi in New York|the rabbi in Switzerland|Moshe Soloveitchik (Zürich)}}

{{Infobox rabbi
| honorific-prefix = 
| name = Moshe Soloveichik
| image = Moshe_Soloveichik.jpg
| caption = Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik
| birth_date = 1879
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|01|21|1879|01|01}}
| yeshiva = Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
| yeshivaposition = Rosh Yeshiva
| denomination = Orthodox Judaism
}}

'''Moshe Soloveichik''' (1879 – January 21, 1941) was an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[rabbi]]. He was [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] of [[Yeshiva University]].

==Biography==
He was born in [[Valozhyn]], the middle son of [[Chaim Soloveitchik]] and grandson of the [[Beis HaLevi]]. He married Pesya Feinstein, daughter of the Rabbi of [[Pruzany]], [[Eliyahu Feinstein]], and first cousins with Rabbi [[Moshe Feinstein]].

At the age of 31, he was appointed rabbi of the town of [[Raseiniai]], a position he held for three years. He also was the dean of a yeshiva in the town that [[Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)|Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel]] of Slabodka was instrumental in founding. In 1913, he took the position of rabbi of [[Khislavichi]]. 

After [[World War I]], he went to [[Poland]] in 1920, and served as the director of Talmud studies at  [[:he: תחכמוני (בית ספר)|Tachkemoni Rabbinical Seminary]] in [[Warsaw]]. 

From there he immigrated to New York in 1929, joining the faculty as a [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] of [[Yeshiva University]].

While Soloveichik was in New York City, his eldest son, [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]] (known as Yosef Dov) was working on his PhD in philosophy at the [[University of Berlin]], which he completed in 1931. The following year, Yosef Dov moved to [[Boston]] and became head of the Orthodox Jewish community there.
When Soloveichik died in 1941 at the age of 62, Yosef Dov was asked to fill his father's place.

His funeral at RIETS was attended by more than 4,000 mourners and he was eulogized by [[Moshe Rosen (Nezer HaKodesh)|Rabbi Moshe Rosen]] on behalf of the [[Union of Orthodox Rabbis]] as well as his wife's cousin [[Moshe Feinstein]] and other rabbinic leaders.

Soloveichik's two younger sons were [[Ahron Soloveichik]] (1917–2001), who also taught at [[RIETS]], and [[Samuel Soloveichik]] (1909–1967) who taught [[chemistry]] at [[Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)|Yeshiva College]]. He also had two daughters: Shulamit Soloveitchik Meiselman (1912–2009), and Anne Soloveitchik Gerber (1913-2011).

==Notable students==

===In Europe===
* [[Dovid Leibowitz]]

===In America===
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*[[Jacob B. Agus]]
* Abraham Avrutick<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rabbi Abraham AvRutick · Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection · JHSGH|url=https://jhsgh.org/omeka-s/s/oral-histories/item/155|access-date=2021-06-07|website=jhsgh.org}}</ref>
*[[Mordechai Gifter]]
*[[Bernard Lander]]
*[[Moses Mescheloff]]
</div>

<div style="float:left; width:33%;">
* [[Avigdor Miller]]
*[[Emanuel Rackman]]
*[[Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg]]
*[[Melech Schachter]]
</div>

<div style="float:right; width:33%;">
*[[Nosson Meir Wachtfogel]]
*[[Louis Werfel|Louis (Eliezer) Werfel]]
*[[Chaim Zimmerman]]
</div>{{clear}}

==Brisk family tree==
{{Brisker family tree}}

==See also==
* [[Brisk yeshivas and methods]]

==Publications==
* [http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=12106&pgnum=11] HaPardes, No. 14 Vol. 2 1940 May: לכבוד חג הסמיכה (Address To Rabbinic Graduates)
* [http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=25186] HaNe'eman, Vol. 28 No. 53 Elul 5739 (1939): בדין רודף והבא במחתרת

==External links and references==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311140010/http://us.geocities.com/shl_gur/Soloveicthik.html  geocities]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060509130212/http://www2.bartleby.com/65/so/Soloveit.html bartleby]
* [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/asoloveitchik.html jewishvirtuallibrary]
* "The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik" By Rabbi Dr. [[Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff]] ({{ISBN|0-88125-614-5}} & {{ISBN|0-88125-615-3}})
*https://mishpacha.com/a-shtikel-brisk-on-the-hudson/
* [http://www.jhi.pl/psj/Seminarium_Rabiniczne_(Rabinackie)_Tachkemoni] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022095954/http://www.jhi.pl/psj/Seminarium_Rabiniczne_(Rabinackie)_Tachkemoni |date=2019-10-22 }}

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