Career
The Rabbinical Seminary of America was named after his great-uncle, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radun", who was known as the "Chofetz Chaim". In his youth, he was known as "Reb Dovid Warshawer". He also learned there under Rabbi Naftoli Trop.
In 1908, Rabbi Leibowitz transferred to the Slabodka yeshiva, where he learned under the Alter of Slabodka, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel.
In 1915, Rabbi Leibowitz succeeded his father-in-law as rabbi of Šalčininkai. In 1926, Rabbi Leibowitz came to the United States as a fund-raiser for the kollel and was invited to become the first rosh yeshiva of Mesivta Torah Vodaath.
Among his students were Rabbis Gedalia Schorr and Avraham Yaakov Pam. In 1933, Rabbi Leibowitz founded Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen.
(The Yeshiva is now located in Kew Gardens Hills, New York).
There he transplanted to the United States his unique style of Talmud study as well as the Slabodka school of Musar. On Friday December 5, 1941, Rabbi Leibowitz died of a massive heart attack. Because his death was on a Friday, the funeral was held on Sunday December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor Day) as to provide proper respect for the deceased.
The yeshiva is now headed by two of Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz"s disciples, Rabbis Dovid Harris and Akiva Grunblatt.
