title: Dovid Povarsky
text: # Dovid Povarsky
  
  Yehoshua Dovid Povarsky (Hebrew: יהושע דוד פוברסקי; 1902–1999) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Ponevezh Yeshiva.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Povarsky studied in the Kelm Talmud Torah under Yeruchom Levovitz whom he followed when Levovitz went to work at Mir Yeshiva, where Povarsky was Yechiel Michel Feinstein's roommate.
  
  He married Tzipporah Kreiser, after which he studied under Elchonon Wasserman in Kovno.
  
  Several of his sons became rabbis, including Baruch Dov Povarsky, his successor as rosh yeshiva.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Yeshuas Dovid (7 volumes)
  * Shiurei Reb Dovid Pavarsky on various Tractates
  * Yishmeru Da'as consisting of various Mussar discourses which he delivered
  