Rabbi Dovid Kviat

Dovid Kviat

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Rabbi Dovid Kviat (December 6, 1920, Białystok, Poland[1] - November 11, 2009[2], Brooklyn, New York) was a Rosh Yeshiva in the Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn and the Rabbi of the Agudas Yisroel Synagogue of 18th Avenue.

[edit] Biography

Rabbi Kviat was a Mirrer alumni who studied in Mirrer Yeshiva in Poland[2] as well as Kobe, Japan, and then Shanghai, China[2] as the Yeshiva fled war torn Europe through the efforts of Chiune Sugihara.

Rabbi Kviat is most famous for his works on the Talmud entitled “Sukas Dovid.” Rav Kviat has written commentaries on the bible and the Jewish holidays, also named “Sukas Dovid.”

Rabbi Kviat’s father was Rabbi Avrohom Eliezer Kviat. Rav Avrohom Eliezer was a student of both the Slabodka Yeshiva as well as the Novardok yeshiva in Europe, although he was a Slonimer Chasid. Rav Dovid had two older brothers, Yaakov and Yisroel. Reb Dovid was born in Bialystok, Poland, which was at the time part of Belarus.

The Kviat family was extremely poor as were most residents of Bialystok at the time. At the age of three, Rav mother, Chaya Reisha a”h, died. Reb Dovid’s aunt helped take care of him after that.

The Torah education system in Bialystok was unique in that the Cheder and the Mesivta Yeshiva were both in the same city and under the same educational system. Most other cities only had a cheder.

Reb Dovid’s two older brothers continued after Mesivta in the Slominer Yeshiva called Toras Chesed. For some reason, Reb Dovid chose to go to one of the Litvisha Yeshivos instead of the Slominer Yeshiva. The choices were between Kaminetz and Mir. Reb Dovid chose Mir.

[edit] References

^ Polish consulate Staff (1934-1941) (in Polish) (Ledger), The Ledger listing in handwriting persons registered at the Polish consulate in Shanghai, 1934-1941, on the basis of documents issued by Polish authorities, Shanghai, China, p. 156, http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/polref/polrefindex.html, retrieved 2009-11-11, "Entry Number: 1242; Registration Date: 21-11-1944; Name: Kwiat, Dawid; Profession: Uczen (Student); Religion: Mojzesz( Moses/Jewish); Birth Date: 06.12.1920; Birth Location: Bialystok; Marital Status: kawaler (single)"

^ a b c Yeshiva World News Staff (2009-11-11). "Levaya of Hagon Rav Dovid Kviat ZATZAL". Yeshiva World News. http://theyeshivaworld.com/news/General/41911/Levaya+of+Hagon+Rav+D.... Retrieved 2009-11-11.

The information contained here is from an upcoming article in the Five Towns Jewish Times by the author

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