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מיר

Mir

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Practical notes from visitors — access, directions, and the condition of the site.

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מיר — בית החיים

Mir — the old bais hachaim

Jewish cemetery, Mir, Karelichy district, Grodno Region, Belarus — no street address is published here; ask in the town

  • Mir is a small town about 85 km south-west of Minsk. The yeshiva building and the shul still stand, and the town is used to the occasional visitor, but there is no organised reception — this is not Lizhensk.
  • The bais hachaim carries a plaque naming Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai. Expect a field with old stones rather than a maintained site, and expect to look.
  • The Mir that most people mean today — Yerushalayim, and Brooklyn — is the continuation of this yeshiva. What is here is where it started, and where the roshei yeshiva who were niftar before the war are buried.
  • We are printing no gate contact and no opening time, because we could not stand behind either. Ask the Jewish community in Minsk before travelling out.
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At the kever

Who is buried here.

רבי אליהו ברוך קמאי

Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai

Rov of Mir and rosh yeshiva

Rov of Mir and rosh yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva. The plaque in the bais hachaim calls him that genius of geniuses. His daughter Malka married Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, son of the Alter of Slabodka, who joined the yeshiva's faculty in 1906 and later led the Mir.

רבי אברהם צבי הירש קמאי

Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Hirsch Kamai

Rov of Mir after his father

Son of Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch, and rov of Mir after him.

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Where is the beis hachaim in Mir?

Mir — the old bais hachaim — Jewish cemetery, Mir, Karelichy district, Grodno Region, Belarus — no street address is published here; ask in the town.

Who is buried in Mir?

The listing for this beis hachaim records Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai, Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Hirsch Kamai.