Rabbi Meir Shapiro

Rabbi Meir Shapiro is renowned for two monumental contributions to 20th-century Jewish life: the Daf Yomi program and the establishment of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin. He introduced the concept of a synchronized daily study of a Talmud page at the 1923 Agudath Israel World Congress to foster unity and learning. An influential communal leader who also served as a member of the Polish Sejm, he dedicated immense effort to founding Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin as an elite institution with an innovative campus. His novellae are collected in works such as *Ohr HaMeir*.