Yosef Yozel Horwitz - Successors

Successors

Horwitz had three sons-in-law: Rabbi Alter, Rabbi Isroel Yankef Lubchanski and Rabbi Avrom Yoffen. Rabbi Alter was a renowned scholar and was a follower of the derech hapilpul. He was not a follower of Horwitz's way of musar. In the end, Rabbi Alter left Novardok and became the head of the yeshiva in Shchuchyn. Rabbi Lubchanski followed the direction of his father-in-law. He was the supervisor of the yeshiva in Baranovichi, "Oil Torah", which followed the way of musar. In later years (from 1921), Rabbi Alter Wasserman was the head of the Yeshiva. Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Gutman was the principal till the last day of its existence. Rabbis Lubchanski and Gutman were killed by the Nazis together with the Jewish community of Baranovichi. Rabbi Yoffen was the head of the Novardok Yeshiva in Bialystok.