April 30, 2023
Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky
• Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky was born in Tytuvėnai, Lithuania, to Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, the town's rabbi.
•The family emigrated in 1937, and he attended Eitz Chaim Day Schools in Toronto.
•He studied at Ner Israel Rabbinical College under his father's cousin, Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman.
•Kamenetsky then studied at Lakewood Yeshiva and received rabbinic ordination from Aharon Kotler.
•In the mid-1950s, he and Dov Schwartzman were sent to found the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia.
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