Dovid Kviat
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Rabbi Dovid Kviat is a leading Torah Teacher. He is a member of the Moetzes Gedolei Torah, he has written over forty scholarly books, he is a Rosh Yeshiva in the Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn and the Moreh D’Asrah, Rabbi, of the Agudas Yisroel Synagogue of 18th Avenue.
Rabbi Kviat is also one of the few surviving Mir Alumnus who studied in Mirrer Poland and made their way to Kobe Japan, then Shanghai China through the efforts of Sugihara.
Rabbi Kviat is most famous for his works on the Talmud entitled “Sukas Dovid.” In the later years Rav Kviat has written commentaries on the bible and the Jewish holidays. They are also called “Sukas Dovid.”
Rabbi Kviat’s father was Rav Avrohom Eliezer Kviat. Rav Avrohom Eliezer was a student of both the Slabodka Yeshiva as well as the Novardiker Yeshiva in Europe, although he was a Slonimer Chasid. Rav Dovid had two older brothers, Yaakov and Yisroel. Reb Dovid was born in Bialystok, Poland, which was then called Belarus.
The Kviat family was extremely poor as were most residents of Bialystok at the time. When Reb Dovid was three years old his mother, Chaya Reisha a”h, died. Reb Dovid’s aunt helped take care of him after that.
The Torah education system in Bialystok was unique in that the Cheder and the Mesivta Yeshiva were both in the same city and under the same educational system. Most other cities only had a cheder.
Reb Dovid’s two older brothers continued after Mesivta in the Slominer Yeshiva called Toras Chesed. For some reason, Reb Dovid chose to go to one of the Litvisha Yeshivos instead of the Slominer Yeshiva. The choices were between Kaminetz and Mir. Reb Dovid chose Mir.
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- The information contained here is from an upcoming article in the Five Towns Jewish Times by the author