Shimon Shkop

Rabbi
Shimon Yehuda Shkop
Personal
Born1860
Torez, Russian Empire
(present-day Chystiakove, Ukraine)
DiedOctober 22, 1939 (aged 78–79)
Grodno, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
(present-day Belarus)
ReligionJudaism
SpouseLeah Shkop (née Idelevich)
Parents
  • Yitzchak Shmuel Shkop (father)
  • Rachel Shkop (née Kaplan) (mother)
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
Alma materVolozhin Yeshiva
Jewish leader
PredecessorRabbi Alter Shulevitz
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaGrodno Yeshiva
Began1920
Ended1939
Main workShaarei Yosher
Yahrtzeit9 Marcheshvan
ResidenceGrodno, Belarus
Shkop (left) and Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

Shimon Yehuda Shkop (Hebrew: שמעון שקופ; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of Grodno. Having innovated a style of Torah study, [1] applying both to Halacha and to Talmud, he was widely regarded as a major Talmid Chacham (Talmudic scholar).

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