Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman
Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman (Shushan Purim 1900,[1] Daŭhinava - July 11, 1987)[2] was a prominent Talmudic scholar and rabbi who founded and served as rosh yeshiva (yeshiva head) of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore.
Early life[edit]
Ruderman was born to a Hasidic family of the Chabad denomination in Daŭhinava, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), where his father, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ruderman,[3] was the rabbi. He studied in Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in Slabodke,[1] under the "Alter", Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, receiving semicha from the latter in 1926.