Editing Shlomo Yosef Zevin (section)

== Early Life ==
Rabbi Zevin was born in the town of Kazmirov in the Pinsk district in the month of Kislev 1887 to his father Rabbi Aharon Mordechai Zevin and his mother Mrs. Chaya.

In his youth, he studied with his father who was the Chabad rabbi of Kazmirov, and continued his studies at the Mir Yeshiva. He then went to study at the yeshiva of Rabbi Shmarya Noach Schneersohn of Bobruisk, from whom he also received rabbinical ordination. He also received ordination from Rabbi Yosef Rozin - the Rogatchover Gaon, and from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, author of the Aruch HaShulchan.

In his first marriage, he married Chaya Leah, daughter of Rabbi Yosef Yaakov Levin. In his second marriage, he married Yitel, daughter of R' Yitzchak.

After his father's passing, at just seventeen years old, he was appointed as rabbi of the Kazmirov community.

In 1925, when Rabbi DZ Chen, rabbi of Chernigov, immigrated to the Holy Land, the city's residents asked Rabbi Zevin to take his place as rabbi of Chernigov. He refused, explaining that he was involved in building a mikvah in his town, and he knew that if he left, the mikvah would not be built.