
Rav Moshe Landynski was an alumnus of the Volozhin Yeshiva. His contemporaries included Rav Jacob Joseph, Rav Chaim Mordechai Katz, Rav Abraham Isaac Kook, Rav Baruch Ber Lebowitz and Rav Aryeh Levin. In 1900, Rav Moshe Landynski was appointed rosh yeshiva of the Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva in Radin.