Simcha Zissel Ziv threats to traditional Judaism and to strengthen the cause of the Musar movement, Simcha Zissel decided to open a school in Kelm, the Kelm Talmud Torah. At the time, Simcha Zissel was almost forty years old. The Talmud Torah opened in approximately 1865 and attracted young students, mainly thirteen and fourteen-year-olds. Simcha Zissel’s teacher – Rabbi Yisrael Salanter – had taught Simcha Zissel the importance of Musar and so the Talmud Torah aimed not only to enhance its student’s Torah knowledge but also to shape their personalities and develop their character traits using the Musar approach. Indeed, much of daily
Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz Avrohom Moshe Faivelson. His son Yisroel has married children: Naftali to Esther Leah (Cohen), Nosson Tzvi to Devorah Esther (Krasner), Haddasah Leah to Osher Steinharter, Yael to Shmuel Simcha Goldberg, Chava to Yitzchak Zev Wasserman, and Eliyahu Zalman to Chava (Sorotzkin), and Simcha and Sholom (twins) are 11. Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz (1908–2001) was a rabbi and founder of the first Mesivta (Jewish High School) in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and a teacher of thousands of students. He was born in 1908 in Ozovnet, Lithuania. His father, Musar movement leader Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz, was the spiritual leader