HaRav Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz (1908–2001) was a Lithuanian-born American rabbi and founder of the first Mesivta (Jewish High School) in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and a teacher of thousands of students.
After his marriage he founded the first yeshiva high school in Boro Park. He also published the writings of his father, Yeruchom Levovitz, and of the rabbi after whom he was named, Simcha Zissel Ziv.
He and his wife had three sons, all rabbis, and one daughter.
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