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Rogatchover Gaon Joseph Rosen Biography. Hebrew
-הרוגוצובי תולדות הרב יוסף רוזן
Joseph Rosen was born in Rogachov, now Belarus, into a Hasidic family of Chabad-Kapust Hasidim, and was educated in the local cheder . His unusual capabilities were noticed at the age of 13, when he was sent to study in Slutsk along with Chaim Soloveitchik (5 years his senior), under Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi). He subsequently studied under Yehoshua Leib Diskin (Maharil Diskin) in Shklov. In 1889, he assumed the rabbinate of the Hasidic community in Dvinsk for almost 50 years, where his non-Hasidic counterpart was Meir Simcha of Dvinsk. They served in parallel until the late 1920s, and enjoyed excellent relations.