Editing Yitzchak Hutner (section)

== Early life ==
Hutner was born in [[Warsaw]], [[Congress Poland|Poland]], to a family with both [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] and non-Hasidic [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jewish]] roots. As a child he received private instruction in [[Torah]] and [[Talmud]].{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} As a teenager he was enrolled in the [[Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)|Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania]], headed by [[Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)|Nosson Tzvi Finkel]], where he was known as the "Warsaw Illui" (Genius of Warsaw).<ref name="Kook">Gerber, Alan Jay (August 5, 2015) [https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/Ravs-Kook-and-Hutner-zichronum-livracha,6236 "Ravs Kook and Hutner, zichronum livracha"], ''The Jewish Star''. Retrieved October 22, 2020.</ref> His younger sister was [[Rachela Hutner]] (1909–2008).

In 1925, having obtained a solid grounding in Talmud, Hutner joined a group from the Slabodka yeshiva that established the [[Hebron Yeshiva]] in [[Mandatory Palestine]]. He studied there until 1929,<ref name="Kook"/> narrowly escaping the [[1929 Hebron massacre]] because he was away for the weekend. Hutner then returned to Warsaw to visit his parents.<ref name="Kook"/> He then moved to Germany, to study philosophy at the [[University of Berlin]], where he befriended [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]]<ref name="Soloveitchik">[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-soloveitchik "Joseph Soloveitchik (1903-1993)"], ''Jewish Virtual Library''. Retrieved October 22, 2020.</ref> and [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]],<ref name="Synoptic">{{cite journal |last1=Goldberg |first1=Hillel|date=Winter 1987 |title=Rabbi Isaac Hutner: A Synoptic Interpretive Biography|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23259487|journal=Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought|volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=18–46 (29 pgs) |jstor=23259487|access-date=October 22, 2020}}</ref> two future rabbinical leaders then studying in Berlin. In 1932, he authored a book called ''Torat HaNazir''.

In 1933, Hutner married Masha Lipshitz in [[Kobryn]]. She was born in [[Slutsk]] and raised in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSM1-DQRZ-R?i=1689&cat=988724|title=FamilySearch: Sign In|website=[[FamilySearch]]}}</ref> That same year, the couple traveled to Mandatory Palestine, where they remained for about a year, and completed his research and writing of his ''Kovetz Ha'aros'' on [[Hillel ben Eliakim]]'s commentary on ''[[midrash]] [[sifra]].''{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}