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Yosef Yozel Horowitz (Hebrew: יוסף יוזל הורוביץ‎), also Yosef Yoizel Hurwitz, known as the Alter of Novardok (1847–1919), was a student of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the founder of the Musar movement. Horowitz was also a student of Rabbis Yitzchak Blazer and Simcha Zissel Ziv and spent some time in Brisk, learning from Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik. He established the Novardok yeshiva in the city of Navahrudak. Additionally, he established a network of yeshivas in Dvinsk, Minsk, Warsaw, Berdichev, Lida and Zetl. Some of his discourses were recorded in the book Madregas Ha-Adam (Hebrew: מדרגת האדם, Stature of Man). The most basic and important theme in his book is Bitachon (trust in God). (Horowitz would sign his name: "B. B.," for Ba'al Bitachon, "Master of Trust [in God]".

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