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Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz (1906〔–20 October 1982〔) was an influential Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he taught for over 30 years. He studied at various yeshivas in Lithuania and Poland before marrying and moving to England in 1932. This move saved him from the Holocaust under the Nazis. ==Early life and education== He was born Aryeh Ze'ev Kushelevsky in the small town of Molėtai, Russian empire (nowadays Lithuania), where his father, Rabbi Moshe Aharon Kushelevsky served as rabbi. His mother was a direct descendant of the Vilna Gaon.〔 His brother was Rabbi Eliyahu (Elya) Kushelevksy (1910–1992), who later served as ''av beis din'' (head of the rabbinical court) of Beersheba.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Prof. Avraham Kushelevsky )〕 At the age of thirteen he left home to learn in yeshiva. He sneaked across the border into Lithuania and went to learn at the Vilkomir yeshiva ketana, where he proved himself to be a diligent and capable student. After a year and a half in Vilkomir, he traveled to Vilna in the hopes of seeing his family, who had moved there. But his father had been called back to Malat. In the meantime, Vilna was the new home of the Mir yeshiva, which had relocated deep in Russian territory during World War I. Leib decided to join the Mir yeshiva in Vilna, becoming one of its youngest students.〔 After studying for a few years at the Mir yeshiva, he was forced to change his Polish passport. Due to political tensions between Lithuania and Poland, Polish nationals were liable to be expelled from the country. The nearest passport office was in Baranovitch, where a student of the Baranovitch yeshiva arranged the forgeries. Forced to choose a new surname, he selected his mother's maiden name, Gurwicz, which he kept for the rest of his life.〔 He stayed on in the Baranovitch yeshiva and paid off his debt to the student who had forged his passport by agreeing to learn the ''Ketzos Hachoshen'' with him for a year.〔 Altogether, Rabbi Gurwicz learned in the Mir for 8 years, after which he traveled to study under Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik (known as "the Brisker Rov"). The Brisker Rav valued his student highly and said of him: "Reb Leib knows how to learn".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leib Gurwicz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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