LIFESTYLE → TASTES LIKE SHABBOS Issue 903 · March 15, 2022

A Litvish Shabbos: Beautiful Simplicity

A Litvish Shabbos: Beautiful Simplicity
Photo Credit: Sina Mizrahi


Photo Credit: Sina Mizrahi

Rebbetzin Esther Levin

Wife of Rav Avraham Chaim Levin of Telshe Chicago, zt”l, and daughter of

Rav Ephraim Mordechai and Zlata Malkoh Ginsburg, of Yeshivas Mir in America

My conversation with Rebbetzin Esther Levin was a delightfully navigated trip back in time. Having grown up in Detroit under the guidance of Rav Leizer Levin and feeling the impact of this family throughout my formative years, speaking to his daughter-in-law and hearing about her background filled in more of the picture of this incredibly pure and Torah-oriented, yet down-to-earth family. 

Esther Ginsburg was born in Mir, Poland, to Rav Ephraim Mordechai and Zlata Malkoh Ginsburg, the late Rosh Yeshivah and Rebbetzin of Yeshivas Mir in America. Her maternal grandfather was HaRav Yechezkel Levenstein, Mashgiach of Yeshivas Mir in Poland and, in later years, of Yeshivas Ponovezh in Bnei Brak.

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