He
studied in
Slabodka,
Kovno and
Radin, and received
Semicha (ordination) from Rabbis Moshe Danishevsky, Hirsh Rabinovich, and Malkiel Tannenbaum, respectively holding the positions of
Av Beit Din in Slabodka, Kovno and Lomza. He was married to Chana
née Malach; their daughter Feige Rachel ("Fanny") later married Rabbi
Simcha Wasserman. Rabbi Abovitz was Av Beit Din and
Rav in
Telatycze,
White Russia and then Lubiezh (Lubcza, modern
Lubcha). The latter was destroyed during the early days of the
First World War, and he then relocated to German held
Navahrudak, where he
headed the
Bet Yosef Yeshiva; see
Novardok Yeshiva. The
Rav there was Meyer Meyerovitz. Rabbi Abovitz participated in the founding assembly of Mizrachi of Lithuania and Poland, in
Vilna, 1919; he was involved in various committees of the movement in Poland between the two World Wars. See
Mizrachi in Poland. He was also active in "religious national education" see . ==Works==