Berlin is Jerusalem...from there will come the storm winds that will uproot them". Ohr Somayach yeshivas In the late 1970s several baal teshuva yeshivas under Haredi Judaism auspices were founded and chose to honor the memory of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk by calling themselves by his pen name for his work "Ohr Somayach". The first was the yeshiva Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem in Israel, and another was Ohr Somayach, Monsey in the United States. Other branches were established in Toronto and Montreal in Canada, and in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Worldwide, branches, all bearing the name Ohr Somayach, are Ohr Somayach, South Africa, London in the United Kingdom, Kiev in the Ukraine, and Sydney in Australia. References Further reading 1843 births 1926 deaths Bible commentators Haredi rabbis in Europe Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature 19th-century rabbis from the Russian Empire Lithuanian Haredi rabbis Writers from Daugavpils 20th-century Russian rabbis