Yechiel Michel Feinstein

He died on Saturday night, 17 May 2003 (16 Iyar 5763) and was eulogized in both Bnei Brak and Jerusalem before being buried at Har HaMenuchos near the grave of his father-in-law, Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik. He was survived by his wife, sons Chaim Feinstein and Dovid Feinstein, both rosh yeshivas at Beis Yehuda, and Avrohom Feinstein, and a son-in-law, Tzvi Kaplan, a rosh yeshiva in Jerusalem. His wife Lifsha died in October 2008.

In 1973, the death of one of his daughters prompted Feinstein to move to Bnei Brak. In 1984, he inaugurated a new yeshiva building where he lectured to unmarried and married students, as well as gave shiurim in his home.

In 1946, Feinstein visited Palestine. He immediately reunited with his former teacher Soloveitchik in Jerusalem, and married his daughter, Lifsha, in August of that year. Isser Zalman Meltzer officiated at the wedding. Following his marriage, he continued serving in the capacity of rosh yeshiva in America until 1952, when he and his family immigrated to Israel and he established Yeshivas Beis Yehuda in Tel Aviv. He consulted regularly with the Chazon Ish in Bnei Brak on important issues.

From Vilna Feinstein joined the Mir Yeshiva in exile in Japan, while helping other refugees escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Eventually, he arrived in the United States in 1941 with Aharon Kotler. While the latter opened a yeshiva in Lakewood, New Jersey (Beth Medrash Govoha), Feinstein served as mashgiach for Joseph B. Soloveitchik in Boston. Less than a year later, his uncle, Moshe Feinstein, summoned him to serve at his side as the head of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. During this time, he gained fame for his Talmudic lectures. He was appointed a member of the Agudas HaRabbonim and assisted the Vaad Hatzolah in rescuing Jews and aiding the war refugees in Europe.

Yechiel Michel Feinstein (27 June 1906 – 17 May 2003) was a Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Israel and the United States.