Rav Hirsch Paley was born in Shklov, Lithuania, to Rav Avrohom Noach Paley, a close talmid of Rav Boruch Ber Leibovitz. The family immigrated to Eretz Yisrael when Rav Hirsch was fourteen. His father became the Mashgiach in Yeshiva Chevron. Rav Hirsch would travel with his lifelong friend, Rav Sholom Schwadron, to hear Rav Elya Lopian in Yerushalayim, whom he considered his Rebbe Muvhok and and Moreh Derech. Rav Hirsch was the last surviving member of the Chevron community following the 1929 riots. In 1965, he married Menucha, the daughter of Rav Shlomo Zalman Pines. She had been one of the first talmidos of Sara Schenirer and served as a mechaneches in Bais Yaakov schools for over six decades, both in Tel Aviv and in Yerushalayim. They moved to Tel Aviv, where Rav Hirsch studied in Kollel Heichal HaTalmud, founded by his father. He later became Mashgiach at Chevron Yeshiva.
