Benzion Rakow

Rabbi Benzion Rakow, (1925-1985), was a communal rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Chayei Olam Yeshiva in Golders Green, London. He was also active in Agudas Yisroel of Great Britain.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany into a distinguished rabbinical family, Benzion Rakow was a direct descendant of Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, (author of the Tosefot Yom-Tov commentary on the Mishnah). His father, rabbi Yom-Tov Lipman Rakow, a pupil of the great Volozhin Yeshiva, was a rosh yeshiva in Frankfurt-on-Main. His brother, Rabbi Bezalel Rakow was Rabbi of Gateshead. After his death, his rabbinical position was filled by his eldest son, Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipman Rakow.

External links

A biography of Rabbi Benzion Rakow

Rosh yeshivas and Dayanim in the United Kingdom

Rosh yeshivas	Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler Tzvi Hirsch Ferber Nachman Shlomo Greenspan Avrohom Gurwicz Leib Gurwicz Elyah Lopian Benzion Rakow Naftoli Shapiro

Dayanim	Yonason Abraham Yehezkel Abramsky Aryeh Leib Grosnass Avrohom Rapoport Josef Hirsch Dunner Chanoch Ehrentreu Michoel Fisher Menachem Gelley Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman Moses Hyamson Casriel Dovid Kaplin Yaakov Benzion Mendelson Chanoch Dov Padwa Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss

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