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Shimon Yehuda Shkop (; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Telshe yeshiva, and later of Grodno Yeshiva of Grodno. Having innovated a style of Torah study, applying both to Halacha and to Talmud, he was widely regarded as a major Talmid Chacham ( scholar).
While there, he developed a system of Talmudic study which became known as the "Telz way of learning;" this approach combined the above influences:- the logical analysis and penetrating insights of Rav. Chaim Brisker and the simplicity and clarity of Netziv.See Micha Berger (2019).
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In 1903, he became rabbi of Malech (Малеч) (present day Belarus), and in 1907 of Bransk. Among his students in Malech was Yechezkel Sarna, who studied under Shkop for a year in 1906, before leaving to the Hebron Yeshiva when Shkop himself left.
From 1920 to 1939 he was Rosh Yeshiva of the Grodno Yeshiva in Grodno.
Other major works include:
Yeshiva University
In 1928, Shkop traveled to the United States in order to raise funds for the Yeshiva. After delivering a lecture at Yeshiva University, he became Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York. In 1929, Shkop returned to Europe.
Death
As the Russian army was about to enter Grodno during World War II, Shkop ordered his students to flee to Vilnius. He himself died two days later, on the 9th of Cheshvan 5700 (1939) in Grodno. Shkop is buried in the Jewish cemetery in the Zaniemanski Forshtat section of Grodno.
Works
His Sha'arei Yosher (1925), his most important work, is largely concerned with the intellectual principles by which the law is established, rather than with concrete laws, and is stylistically similar to the Shev Shema'tata of Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller, on which it was partly based.
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