Refael Shapiro

Rabbi Refael Shapiro
Rabbi Refael Shapiro
Title	Toras Refael
Personal
Born	1837 Russia
Died	1921 Volozhin, Russia (now Valozhyn, Belarus)
Nationality	Belarusian
Children	Father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik
Notable work(s)	Toras Refael
Known for	Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva, reopening it in 1899
Occupation	Rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva

Refael Shapiro (Hebrew: רפאל שפירא‎; 1837–1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva located in the town of Valozhyn, and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netziv).^[1] After the Volozhin yeshiva was closed down in 1892 by order of the Russian government, he reopened it, albeit on a smaller scale in 1899.

He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik of Brisk, now in Belarus, and is known as the Toras Refael after his primary work.