Born in France in 1933, Rav Aharon Lichtenstein served as the co-Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut, Israel, as well as RIETS Rosh Yeshiva and inaugural Rosh Kollel of the Gruss Institute. The son-in-law of Rav Yoseif Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik, Rav Lichtenstein assumed the mantle as his generation's eminent Torah U'Madda personality. He held a doctoral degree is English from Harvard University, and served on the faculty of Yeshiva University in New York before making aliya in 1971. His many students are eminent figures in Jewish education in Israel and abroad. Rav Lichtenstein passed away in 2015.
