Religionצבי קושלבסקי

Tzvi Kushelevsky

Tzvi Kushelevsky is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi who founded and heads the Heichal HaTorah BeZion yeshiva in Jerusalem.

born 1936Founding Heichal HaTorah BeZionTeaching English-speaking yeshiva studentsTalmudic scholarship

Occupation: rosh yeshiva

Tzvi Kushelevsky was born in 1936

Tzvi Kushelevsky was born in 1936 in Mandatory Palestine. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Kushelevsky, was the rabbi of Be'er Sheva. As a child he moved with his family to the United States, and his parents returned to Israel in 1953.

He studied at the Radin Yeshiva in New York, Gateshead Talmudical College in England and the Hebron Yeshiva. He also studied at the Harry Fischel Institute, and in 1963 he won a Ministry of Religions prize for a Torah work.

He headed a kollel in Manchester, and in 1971 he returned to Israel to lead a kollel in Be'er Sheva. He later served as rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Itri and then moved with some of his students to Yeshiva Torah Ore. In the 1980s he founded Heichal HaTorah BeZion in Jerusalem, which moved to Givat Shaul and later to Har Nof.

He married his cousin Sara Leah, daughter of Rabbi Leib Gurwicz, and the couple had no children. She died in March 2015. In 2018 he married Rachel Danieli, and his first son, Eliyahu, was born in Jerusalem in March 2024.