Rav Yechezkel Abramsky was born in a small shtetl near Vilna. He learned in the Novardok Yeshiva, and received semicha at eighteen from Rav Yechiel Mechel Epstein, the Aruch HaShulchon. Later he learned in Telshe and in the Ramailles Yeshiva in Vilna. For a while he served as Rosh Mesivta in the Lubavitcher Yeshiva; from there he went on to become a Rav in Smuliyan, and then in Smulevitch, near Minsk, where he stayed nine years. In 5683/1923, he became Rav in the city of Slutzk. He traveled to London, where he became Rav of the Machzikei Hadas kehilla. Later, he became Rosh Bais Din in London. In 5711/1951, he reached Eretz Yisrael and settled in Bayit Vegan, Yerushalayim. Rav Yechezkel was niftar at the age of ninety on the twenty-fourth of Elul 5736/1976.
