Shlomo Wolbe

Shlomo Wolbe was born in 1914 in Berlin

Shlomo Wolbe was born in Berlin in 1914 to Eugen and Rosa Wolbe. He grew up in a secular Jewish home. His father wrote books on Jewish and general history.

He studied at the University of Berlin from 1930 to 1933 and became religiously observant during those years. He then studied at yeshivas in Frankfurt and Montreux. In 1934 he moved to the Mir yeshiva in Poland and became a student of Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz.

In 1938 he went to Stockholm and taught Torah there. During World War II he worked for the Vaad Hahazalah rescue committee. After the war he helped set up a school for refugee girls in Lidingö.

He moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1946 and married Rivka, daughter of Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski. He served as mashgiach of the Be'er Yaakov Yeshiva, with Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro as rosh yeshiva. There he published the first part of Alei Shur.

After 1967 he lectured on kibbutzim and army bases. In 1982 he moved to Jerusalem, where he founded the Beit Mussar and later the Givat Shaul Yeshiva. He died on April 25, 2005, and was buried at Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem.