Brisker Rav - Rav Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik

Ravi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik (October 19, 1886 - October 11, 1959), is better known as the Brisker Rav, having served as the town rabbi and rosh yeshiva in the town of Brisk. He fled the Holocaust and moved to Israel, where he re-established the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem and continued educating students as his father did, in what would come to be known as the Brisker derech of analyzing the Talmud. This form of analysis stressed conceptual understanding combined with strict adherence to the text; it is also characterized by its emphasis on the Rambam's Mishneh Torah.