Timeline for How was the Volozhin Yeshiva special?
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| Jul 31, 2016 at 9:13 | comment | added | mevaqesh | @ShmuelBrin Plenty of rabbis taught plenty of students before Valozhin. R. Yonattan Eybechutz taught thousands, some sources say tens of thousands. | |
| Aug 1, 2015 at 21:31 | comment | added | ray | @ShmuelBrin and how many students before volozhin? probably only the rabbis son or the like pursued full time learning beyond working age. and even then it was not in a yeshiva like environment | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 15:47 | comment | added | ertert3terte | Even after Volozhin most worked after Bar Mitva. Volozhin was only a few hundred students out of several million Jews in the Russsian Empire, and before Volozhin people exiled themselves to places of Torah | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 4:56 | history | answered | ray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |