Rav Yitzchok Yerucham Diskin zt"l
הרב יצחק ירוחם בן משה יהושע יהודה דיסקין זצ"ל
Shevat 29 , 5685
Rav Yitzchok Yerucham Diskin zt"l
Rav Yitzchok Yerucham Diskin was born in Valkovisk, Russia, the son of Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin of Brisk (the Maharil Diskin) and Rebbetzin Hinda Rochel. He started studying Gemora on his own at the age of five. After his bar mitzva, he studied in seclusion for fourteen hours a day. At sixteen, he left for Volozhin. After his father’s petira in 1898, he was asked to succeed him as president of the Diskin Orphanage and head of the Ohel Moshe Yeshiva. At first, he refused, but in 1908, when he saw that Yerushalayim’s Torah institutions were in danger due to the Zionists’ efforts to destroy them, he decided to immigrate to Eretz Yisrael. Together with Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, he fought against the Maskilim. Both of them were elected honorary presidents of the chareidi Vaad Ha’ir, which soon became known as the Eida HaChareidis.

