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During the [[October Revolution]], he quit his studies at Yeshiva and returned to his home, where he studied at the Yiddish Pedagogical [[Technikum (Polish education)|Technikum]]. In 1925, he moved to Minsk, where he met Rabbi [[Moshe-Zvi Neria]] and many other important Chabad rabbis, and studied the philosophy of [[Zionism]]. He was temporarily a student at the local university and studied in underground Chabad yeshivas in Russia. He was arrested five times by [[Religion in the Soviet Union|Soviet authorities for practicing his religion]].
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In 1936, Hilewitz immigrated to [[Eretz Yisroel]] and married Leah Movshovitz, daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Movshovitz, Rabbi of [[Krasnapollye|Malastovka]]. She died a few years into their marriage, and he remarried to Sima Cohen, daughter of Rabbi Israel Dov Cohen, rabbi of [[Mount Carmel]]. They settled in [[Haifa]] and he taught at {{Ill|Yeshiva Tifereth Israel|he|ישיבת תפארת ישראל}}. In 1944, at the request of [[Meir Bar-Ilan]], he moved to [[Jerusalem]], where he joined a team of rabbis editing the Encyclopedia Talmudit with [[Shlomo Yosef Zevin]].
In 1951, he traveled on a mission to [[Johannesburg]] where he promoted Jewish education, directing a seminary for rabbis and a [[Midrasha]]. He served as a rabbi and [[posek]] for the town. During his time in [[South Africa]], he received a doctorate in philosophy from the [[University of the Witwatersrand]]. His thesis was a treatise on "Military Laws and Especially on the Connection to the Hasmoneans, the Revolt and the Family". He returned to Jerusalem in 1975 and was a leader of the {{Ill|Beit Midrash Me'eretz|he|בית מדרש מר"ץ}} for [[Mevaseret Zion]]. {{Authority control|qid=Q6258972}}
▲He returned to Russia and moved to [[Moscow]] in 1953 and worked at the [[Russian State Library]] and later for the city itself. Concurrently, he served as rabbi at [[Maryina Roshcha Synagogue]]. He attempted to obtain permission to exit the USSR, but was refused on eleven seperate occasions, including after three meetings with [[Mikhail Kalinin]].{{Authority control|qid=Q6258972}}
{{Draft categories|[[Category:Authors of Rabbinic works]]
[[Category:20th-century Russian rabbis]]
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