Naftoli Trop

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Rabbi Naftoli Trop (1871–September 24 1928) was the Rosh yeshiva of the Chofetz Chaim's yeshiva in Radin, Poland. He was a renowned Talmudist and Talmid Chacham.

He was born in Grodno, where he studied with his father, Rabbi Moshe Trop, who was Rosh yeshiva of a local yeshiva. At 14, he left to learn in Kelm, where his study partner for ten years was Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz, who went on to become mashgiach of the Mir yeshiva. Rabbi Trop proceeded to learn in Slabodka and Telz, where he became close to Rabbi Eliezer Gordon.

In 1889, Rabbi Trop returned to Slabodka, when Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak (Itzel) Rabinowitz was appointed Rosh yeshiva. He became a close pupil of the latter. In 1890, Rabbi Hirshel Levitan appointed Rabbi Trop the Rosh yeshiva of Or Hachayim in Slabodka. In 1903, he replaced Rabbi Moshe Landinski as Rosh yeshiva in Radin, where he remained for the rest of his life. Among Rabbi Trop's students in Radin were Rabbis Dovid Leibowitz and Yechezkel Sarna.

Rabbi Trop's son Avraham also served as a Rosh yeshiva in Radin until the outbreak of World War II. He immigrated to the United States, where he became Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim in New York, and was later Rosh yeshiva of Karlin-Stolin. He settled in Israel a year before he died in 1978.