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    Nosson Meir Wachtfogel (Hebrew: נתן מאיר וכטפוגל) (18 February 1910 in Kuliai, Lithuania – 21 November 1998 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA), known as the...
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    of the hill; this is the resting place for Rabbis Shlomo Wolbe, Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, and Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, among others. A grave known as a segula...
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    received rabbinic ordination. In the mid-1950s, Kotler's colleague Nosson Meir Wachtfogel asked Kamenetsky to help establish a yeshiva in Philadelphia, the...
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    the institution until he retired towards the end of 2021. Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel served as dean of students (mashgiach ruchani) from the mid 1950s...
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  • Gateshead Yeshiva and later, Beth Medrash Govoha (the Lakewood Yeshiva) Nosson Meir Wachtfogel (1910-1998), mashgiach ruchani of Beth Medrash Govoha (the Lakewood...
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    early 20th century. Some of the men in this group, which included Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, Yehuda Davis, and Mordechai Gifter, would go on to become notable...
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    Miller Emanuel Rackman Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg Melech Schachter Nosson Meir Wachtfogel Louis (Eliezer) Werfel Chaim Zimmerman Brisk yeshivas and methods...
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  • Rabbi Shneur Kotler, rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha, Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, mashgiach ruchani of Beth Medrash Govoha, and Rabbi Dov Lesser...
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  • hold for almost 30 years. In the fall of 1997, he was invited by Nosson Meir Wachtfogel to come to the United States in order to assume the position of...
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  • Yitzchak Elchanan. Together with his new friends and fellow students Nosson Meir Wachtfogel and Avigdor Miller, he attended a secret shiur in Mesillas Yesharim...
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