Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

Rabbi
Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
TitleRabbi
Personal life
Born(1816-11-20)November 20, 1816
Mir, Russian Empire
DiedAugust 10, 1893(1893-08-10) (aged 76)
Warsaw, Russian Empire
NationalityRussian
ChildrenChaim Berlin, Meir Bar-Ilan
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaVolozhin Yeshiva
Yahrtzeit28 Av 5653
BuriedJewish Cemetery, Warsaw

Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (20 November 1816 – 10 August 1893), also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv, was a Russian Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.

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