 He married the daughter of Rav Shmuel Greineman, the Chazon Ish's brother-in-law.He began giving lectures in Yeshivas Mir, and in 1965 he began to head the yeshiva.His son-in-law Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, (who is also his first cousin's son), is the previous rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Mir in Jerusalem.