Rabbi moshe feinstein biography of rory gilmore

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein () was a Lithuanian rabbi, scholar and posek who was world-renowned for his expertise in Halacha, and was regarded by many as the de facto supreme rabbinic authority for Orthodox Jewry of North America.

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was born in Uzda, near Minsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian empire. His father Rabbi David Feinstein, was the Chief Rabbi of Uzdan. His father was a descendant of Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman, Rabbi of Kapolye, who authored many works and whose glosses on the Talmud have been published in the back of the Talmud. In his youth Rabbi Feinstein studied with his father and also in the yeshivas located in Slutsk, Shklov and Amstislav, before being appointed rabbi of Luban where he served for sixteen years. Under increasing pressure from the Soviet regime, he moved with his family to New York City in where he lived for the rest of his life.

Settling on the Lower East Side, he became the Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta Tiferes Jerusalem. He later establish