title: Moshe Aharon Poleyeff
text: # Moshe Aharon Poleyeff
  
  Moshe Aharon Poleyeff (1888 – 1966) was an American rabbi, teaching at Yeshiva University (YU) in New York where he was a Rosh Yeshiva for over 45 years, training generations of rabbis, including Mordechai Gifter.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Poleyeff was born in 1888, in Timkovitz, near Slutsk, 98 km (61 mi) south of Minsk, Belarus (White Russia).
  
  He was a student of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, by whom he was ordained in 1910; married 1912.
  
  Poleyeff arrived in the United States in 1920, and immediately began a teaching career at Yeshiva University in New York, where for about 46 years he was a YU/RIETS Roshei Yeshiva and had thousands of students. His "Thursday Shiur" teaching methodology incorporated a student-presented topic, followed by discussion; he helped the student prepare the prior week or two.
  
  Poleyeff died 2 Kislev 5727 (November 1966).
  
  ## Works
  
  * Machaneh Yisroel
  * Be'er Avraham
  * Ohr HaShemesh
  * Orach Mishor
  