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<p>From "History of Yeshivot in Lithuania..." by Dr. L. Eckman (additions in brackets are mine), pp. 39-40:<br>
"As Rabbi [NTzY]Berlin aged, he wanted to bring in his son[,] Rabbi Chaim Berlin, to head the Yeshiva. This time, the students objected to the appointment of Rabbi Chaim Berlin. A number of these students went to the Tsarist Minister of Education, informing him that the Yeshiva is not in compliance with the orders of the government in matters of secular education.<16> In the month of Shevat, 1892, the Tsarist government ordered the closing of the Yeshiva, and ordered its students to disperse and return to their respective cities within three days...."<br>
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<16> "Mosdoth Torah B'Europa b'binyanam U'vehurbanam" by Samuel K. Mirsky, p.74 <br>
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