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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">8 November 2011<span style="display:none">(2011-11-08)</span> (aged 68)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">American, Israeli</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Leah Finkel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eliezer_Yehuda_Finkel_(b._1965)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (b. 1965)">Eliezer Yehuda</a><br />Avraham Shmuel<br />Yeshayahu<br />Yitzchak<br />Shmaryahu Yosef<br />Chaim Yehoshua Tanchum<br />6 daughters<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Eliyahu Meir Finkel<br />Sara Rosenblum</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Haredi_Judaism" title="Haredi Judaism">Haredi</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ADD8E6; color: #000000;">Jewish leader</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Chaim_Leib_Shmuelevitz" title="Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz">Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz</a>, Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Nachum_Partzovitz" class="mw-redirect" title="Nachum Partzovitz">Nachum Partzovitz</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data">Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Eliezer_Yehuda_Finkel_(b._1965)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (b. 1965)">Eliezer Yehuda Finkel</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Position</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rosh_yeshiva" title="Rosh yeshiva">Rosh yeshiva</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Yeshiva</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mir_yeshiva_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)">Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Began</th><td class="infobox-data">13 February 1990</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ended</th><td class="infobox-data">8 November 2011</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data">8 November 2011</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data label">Jerusalem, Israel</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel</b> (12 March 1943 – 8 November 2011) was an American-born <a href="/wiki/Haredi_Judaism" title="Haredi Judaism">Haredi</a> <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian Jews">Litvish</a> <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rosh_yeshiva" title="Rosh yeshiva">rosh yeshiva</a> (dean) of the <a href="/wiki/Mir_Yeshiva_(Jerusalem)" title="Mir Yeshiva (Jerusalem)">Mir Yeshiva</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>. During his tenure from 1990 until his death in 2011, the Mir Yeshiva grew into the largest <a href="/wiki/Yeshiva" title="Yeshiva">yeshiva</a> in Israel with nearly 6,000 undergraduate students<sup id="cite_ref-vos_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and over 1,600 <i>avreichim</i> (married students).<sup id="cite_ref-yated_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yated-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to one estimate, he taught 25,000 students over his lifetime.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued to work during the last 28 years of his life, when he had <a href="/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> experiencing involuntary spasms and slurred speech.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He raised an estimated US$500 million for the Mir during his tenure as rosh yeshiva.<sup id="cite_ref-donn_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-donn-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Moetzes_Gedolei_HaTorah" title="Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah">Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah</a> of <a href="/wiki/Degel_HaTorah" title="Degel HaTorah">Degel HaTorah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kol_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kol-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was known for his Torah erudition and his warmth and concern for his students. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nosson_Tzvi_Finkel_(Mir)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Finkel was born in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, to Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Finkel and his wife, Sara Rosenblum, who ran a <a href="/wiki/Kashrut" title="Kashrut">kosher</a> catering business.<sup id="cite_ref-haaretz_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haaretz-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His paternal grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Finkel, was a <i><a href="/wiki/Mashgiach_ruchani" title="Mashgiach ruchani">mashgiach ruchani</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Hebron_Yeshiva" title="Hebron Yeshiva">Hebron yeshiva</a> in Israel,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his paternal great-grandfather was the <a href="/wiki/Nosson_Tzvi_Finkel_(Slabodka)" title="Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)">Alter of Slabodka</a>, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, after whom he was named.<sup id="cite_ref-vos_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had one brother, Gedaliah, who now teaches at the Mir yeshiva. After his parents <a href="/wiki/Aliyah" title="Aliyah">immigrated</a> to Israel in 1973,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his mother published a best-selling <a href="/wiki/Kosher" class="mw-redirect" title="Kosher">kosher</a> cookbook.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reb Finkel grew up as a "typical American Jewish boy"<sup id="cite_ref-vos_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who enjoyed playing basketball and baseball.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was known as Nathan in school and Natie to his friends.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was one of the first students of the Central Park Hebrew Day School (later renamed Arie Crown Day School) and received after-school tutoring in Torah studies from Rabbi Yehoshua Levinson.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1957, at the age of 14, he accompanied his parents on a trip to Israel to visit the holy sites and his father's family. His great-uncle, Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Eliezer_Yehuda_Finkel_(b._1879)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (b. 1879)">Eliezer Yehuda Finkel</a> ("Reb Leizer Yudel"), the Mir rosh yeshiva, recognized his ability to think clearly and have patience for studying, and asked his parents to let him stay and study in his yeshiva. Finkel remained at the Mir for eight months, studying with top-notch <i><a href="/wiki/Chavruta" class="mw-redirect" title="Chavruta">chavrutas</a></i> (study partners) to develop his skills.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He returned to Chicago to take his secondary education at the <a href="/wiki/Mixed-sex_education#USA" title="Mixed-sex education">co-ed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Modern_Orthodox_Judaism" title="Modern Orthodox Judaism">Modern Orthodox</a> <a href="/wiki/Ida_Crown_Jewish_Academy" title="Ida Crown Jewish Academy">Ida Crown Jewish Academy</a>, where he was president of the <a href="/wiki/Student_council" title="Student council">student council</a> and a starting centerfielder for the baseball team.<sup id="cite_ref-haaretz_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haaretz-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of 17, Finkel returned to Jerusalem to learn at the Mir under the guidance of his great-uncle.<sup id="cite_ref-FinkelHeimowitz179_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FinkelHeimowitz179-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He learned diligently for the next six years.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With one of his <i>chavrutas</i>, Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Zundel_Kroizer" title="Zundel Kroizer">Zundel Kroizer</a>, he completed the entire <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a> each year.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the summer of 1964<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finkel married Reb Leizer Yudel's granddaughter, Leah, his second cousin and the eldest daughter of Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Binyomin_Beinush_Finkel" title="Binyomin Beinush Finkel">Binyomin Beinush Finkel</a>, who was his father's first cousin.<sup id="cite_ref-mish_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mish-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and his wife had 11 children.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued to learn with <i>chavrutas</i> at all hours, stopping at 2 a.m.;<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his wife would bring their children to visit him at the yeshiva so he wouldn't have to take the time to walk home.<sup id="cite_ref-donn_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-donn-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also began delivering <i>shiurim</i> in the yeshiva, which was headed by his father-in-law after the death of Reb Leizer Yudel in 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon the death of his father-in-law on 13 February 1990,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finkel was named rosh yeshiva of the Mir<sup id="cite_ref-Lakewood_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lakewood-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> together with Rabbi <a href="/w/index.php?title=Refoel_Shmuelevitz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Refoel Shmuelevitz (page does not exist)">Refoel Shmuelevitz</a> (son of former Mir rosh yeshiva Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Chaim_Leib_Shmuelevitz" title="Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz">Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz</a>). Finkel took on the financial responsibility for the yeshiva. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Growth_of_the_Mir">Growth of the Mir</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nosson_Tzvi_Finkel_(Mir)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Growth of the Mir"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Mir_Yeshiva_Simchas_Beis_HaShoeivah_in_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/The_Mir_Yeshiva_Simchas_Beis_HaShoeivah_in_2006.jpg/200px-The_Mir_Yeshiva_Simchas_Beis_HaShoeivah_in_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/The_Mir_Yeshiva_Simchas_Beis_HaShoeivah_in_2006.jpg/300px-The_Mir_Yeshiva_Simchas_Beis_HaShoeivah_in_2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/The_Mir_Yeshiva_Simchas_Beis_HaShoeivah_in_2006.jpg/400px-The_Mir_Yeshiva_Simchas_Beis_HaShoeivah_in_2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="432" /></a><figcaption>Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (center, in wheelchair) participates in a <a href="/wiki/Simchat_Beit_HaShoeivah" title="Simchat Beit HaShoeivah">Simchat Beit HaShoeivah</a> at the Mir in 2006.</figcaption></figure> <p>When Reb Finkel first came to the Mir at the age of 17 in 1960, enrollment was less than 200 students, of which 75 percent were <i>avreichim</i> (married students) and 25 percent were undergraduates.<sup id="cite_ref-finkel185_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-finkel185-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he became rosh yeshiva in 1990, enrollment stood at approximately 1,200 students.<sup id="cite_ref-finkel185_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-finkel185-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of his death, enrollment reached nearly 6,000 undergraduates<sup id="cite_ref-vos_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and over 1,600 <i>avreichim</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-yated_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yated-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This growth is credited to Finkel's open-door policy as rosh yeshiva: whoever wished to learn at the Mir was welcome. Enrollment now includes Litvish, <a href="/wiki/Hasidic_Judaism" title="Hasidic Judaism">Hasidic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" title="Ashkenazi Jews">Ashkenazi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sephardi_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Sephardi Jews">Sephardi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baal_teshuva" title="Baal teshuva">baalei teshuva</a> students from Israel, the United States and Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yated_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yated-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ravnossontzvifinkel.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ravnossontzvifinkel.JPG/220px-Ravnossontzvifinkel.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ravnossontzvifinkel.JPG/330px-Ravnossontzvifinkel.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ravnossontzvifinkel.JPG/440px-Ravnossontzvifinkel.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816" /></a><figcaption>Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel speaking</figcaption></figure> <p>To accommodate the ever-increasing enrollment, Finkel fund-raised for and constructed four new buildings in addition to the original yeshiva building constructed by Reb Leizer Yudel in 1949.<sup id="cite_ref-FinkelHeimowitz179_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FinkelHeimowitz179-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He assigned separate <i><a href="/wiki/Beth_midrash" title="Beth midrash">battei medrash</a></i> (study halls) for each group of students, making one for Israeli students, one for Americans, one for those who wished to study without a daily <i>shiur</i>, and so on. As enrollment continued to climb, several students of the main <i>maggidei shiur</i> (lecturers) began delivering <i>shiurim</i> in English, and Finkel raised the funds to open a new <i>beis medrash</i> in 2006 for these <i>shiurim</i> too. Yet another <i>beis medrash</i> was built in recent years.<sup id="cite_ref-mish_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mish-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Mir also opened a <i>yeshiva gedola</i> for Israeli students in the Brachfeld neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Modi%27in_Illit" title="Modi'in Illit">Modi'in Illit</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where Finkel gave <i>shiurim</i> and occasional <i>shmuessen</i> (<a href="/wiki/Musar_movement" title="Musar movement">musar</a> talks), and a <i>yeshiva ketana</i> in the <a href="/wiki/Ramat_Shlomo" title="Ramat Shlomo">Ramat Shlomo</a> neighborhood of Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an unusual move for a Litvish yeshiva, Finkel accepted 800 <a href="/wiki/Hasidic_Judaism" title="Hasidic Judaism">Hasidic</a> students and allowed them to learn in their own <i>chabura</i> and follow their own customs, including a <i>fartug</i> (pre-dawn study session) before morning prayers. This group, known as <i>Chaburas Ameilim BaTorah</i> (the "Toiling in Torah" Study Group), was housed in a different neighborhood, but the week before his death, Finkel moved them onto Mir yeshiva premises. He participated in their Thursday-night study sessions as well as their <i><a href="/wiki/Seudat_mitzvah#Seudat_Siyum_Masechet" title="Seudat mitzvah">seudot mitzvah</a></i> (festival meals) marking a <a href="/wiki/Siyum" title="Siyum">siyum</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hanukkah" title="Hanukkah">Hanukkah</a> parties.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yated_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yated-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Notwithstanding the Mir's huge enrollment, Finkel tried to remember the name of each student.<sup id="cite_ref-funeral_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-funeral-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also remembered personal details about each of his alumni and donors abroad. His brother-in-law, Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky, rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, said that at Mir dinners, 1,000 people could be waiting to speak with the rosh yeshiva, "and almost every single one on the line was someone he had had a personal connection with".<sup id="cite_ref-donn_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-donn-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite his busy schedule, Finkel also expressed a willingness to learn in <i>chavruta</i> with any student who asked. It was estimated that he studied with approximately 80 people every week.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like his great-uncle Reb Leizer Yudel, Finkel offered cash incentives for Torah study, challenging his students to learn many pages of Talmud and study for large blocks of time. He regularly hosted siyums for students in his own home and at his own expense.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Finkel shouldered the responsibility for raising funds for this giant Torah enterprise. Despite his disease and its side effects, he traveled twice a year to England and the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the past two years, the <a href="/wiki/Late-2000s_recession" class="mw-redirect" title="Late-2000s recession">economic recession</a> saw the yeshiva's debts mounting quicker than they were being met, with salaries and <a href="/wiki/Kollel" title="Kollel">kollel</a> <a href="/wiki/Stipend" title="Stipend">stipends</a> running months behind. Finkel was said to be very upset by this state of affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-donn_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-donn-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Illness">Illness</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nosson_Tzvi_Finkel_(Mir)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Illness"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reb Finkel was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the late 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-mish_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mish-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though he experienced much difficulty in walking and talking, and suffered from involuntary tremors and spasms and slurred speech, he continued to learn for hours every day and gave regular <i>shiurim</i> in the yeshiva, as well as embarked on regular fund-raising trips abroad.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lakewood_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lakewood-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In later years, when he felt too weak to sit in a chair during the <i>chaburas</i> (small-group learning sessions) that he organized for students in his home, he would lie down on a couch and encourage the students to begin the session.<sup id="cite_ref-mish_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mish-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He refused to take medication for his condition, since the drugs could make his mind foggy or cause memory loss<sup id="cite_ref-mish_19-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mish-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he didn't want to risk forgetting his Torah studies.<sup id="cite_ref-haaretz_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haaretz-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He only took medication that provided temporary relief from his symptoms.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nosson_Tzvi_Finkel_(Mir)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At 6 a.m. in his home on November 8, 2011 (11 <a href="/wiki/Cheshvan" title="Cheshvan">Cheshvan</a> 5772), Finkel suddenly lost consciousness. EMS personnel attempted to revive him for 50 minutes while students of the Mir stood outside in the street praying for him. His personal doctor summoned to the home determined that he had died of <a href="/wiki/Cardiac_arrest" title="Cardiac arrest">cardiac arrest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An estimated 100,000 people<sup id="cite_ref-kol_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kol-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-finkel448_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-finkel448-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-levaya_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-levaya-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attended his funeral, which began at the Mir yeshiva in <a href="/wiki/Beit_Yisrael" title="Beit Yisrael">Beit Yisrael</a> and continued on foot to <a href="/wiki/Har_HaMenuchot" title="Har HaMenuchot">Har HaMenuchot</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-hamodia_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamodia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he was buried next to Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, a former rosh yeshiva of the Mir,<sup id="cite_ref-levaya_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-levaya-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and close by the graves of Reb Leizer Yudel and Rabbi Binyomin Beinish Finkel.<sup id="cite_ref-finkel448_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-finkel448-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Edah_HaChareidis" title="Edah HaChareidis">Edah HaChareidis</a> ordered all <a href="/wiki/Haredi_Judaism" title="Haredi Judaism">Haredi</a> businesses to close during the funeral, and <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian Jews">Litvishe</a> Torah leaders Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Yosef_Shalom_Eliashiv" class="mw-redirect" title="Yosef Shalom Eliashiv">Yosef Shalom Eliashiv</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aharon_Leib_Shteinman" class="mw-redirect" title="Aharon Leib Shteinman">Aharon Leib Shteinman</a> instructed teachers and students of <a href="/wiki/Talmud_Torah" title="Talmud Torah">Talmud Torahs</a>, yeshivas, and kollels to join the funeral procession.<sup id="cite_ref-funeral_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-funeral-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kol_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kol-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The procession was so large that it blocked the entrance to the city and halted operations of the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Light_Rail" title="Jerusalem Light Rail">Jerusalem Light Rail</a>, as tens of thousands of mourners crossed the tracks of the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Chords_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem Chords Bridge">Jerusalem Chords Bridge</a> en route to the cemetery.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rav Finkel's death was a double blow for the Jerusalem Litvish yeshiva world, coming one day after the death of Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Dov_Schwartzman" title="Dov Schwartzman">Dov Schwartzman</a>, another respected Litvish rosh yeshiva in Jerusalem. Rabbi Finkel participated in Rabbi Schwartzman's funeral on 7 November.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the funeral it was announced that Finkel's eldest son, Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Eliezer_Yehuda_Finkel_(b._1965)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (b. 1965)">Eliezer Yehuda Finkel</a>, would succeed his father as rosh yeshiva.<sup id="cite_ref-mish_19-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mish-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nosson_Tzvi_Finkel_(Mir)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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