• 1847 – 11 January 1905), also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes (Ashkenazic Pronunciation) or Sefat Emet שפת אמת‎ (Modern Hebrew), was...
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    Sfas Emes Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת שפת אמת) was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Jerusalem, serving the Gerrer Hasidic community until 2016. Founded in 1925...
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    married his cousin Tzipora Alter. In 1956, he was appointed rosh yeshiva of Sfas Emes, the flagship yeshiva of Ger in Jerusalem, Israel. Alter succeeded his...
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    Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications. Kaploun, Uri (1987). Rebbes of Ger: Sfas Emes and Imrei Emes. Mesorah Publications, Ltd. ISBN 0-89906-484-1. Kroyanker, David;...
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    offshoot from the Ger Hasidic dynasty). He served as Rosh Yeshivah of Sfas Emes Yeshivah from 1993 until its closing in 2016. Born in Jerusalem to Tziporah...
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  • House of Ger, vol. 2, p. 55. Kaploun, Uri (1987). Rebbes of Ger: Sfas Emes and Imrei Emes. Mesorah Publications, Ltd. pp. 252–253. ISBN 0-89906-484-1. Frankfurter...
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    (1847–1905), (the Sfas Emes), third Gerrer Rebbe from 1870 to 1905 Grand Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (1866–1948), (the Imrei Emes), fourth Gerrer Rebbe...
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  • Hasidim during the "interregnum" between the Chidushei HaRim of Ger and the Sfas Emes. Levin was one of the leading students of the Rebbe Reb Simcha Bunim of...
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    practices, and melodies. The congregation uses the Rödelheim Siddur Sfas Emes, though the congregation's rite varies in some places from Rödelheim....
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  • (1760–1832; Nesivos HaMishpat) Akiva Eger (1761–1837) Yehudah Leib Alter (Sfas Emes) (1847–1905), Gerrer rebbe Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv, HaEmek Davar)...
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  • as the Sfas Emes. Gerrer Rebbe from 1870 to 1905. Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (December 25, 1866 – June 3, 1948), also known as the Imrei Emes. Gerrer...
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    Mitzve haKhudosh ("The New Commanded War"), and the other one published Sfas Emes ("Words of Truth"). Finally, following the continued refusal of many to...
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    during Pesukei dezimra. According to the Chasam Sofer and the Siddur Sfas Emes, the entire psalm is recited as a prayer for the well-being of a sick...
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    1877, Ger) the brother to the Gerrer Rebbe (and youngest son of the Sfas Emes) to this position. Rabbi Shapiro negotiated that a large part of his wage...
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    yeshiva) Mercaz HaRav Mirrer Yeshiva Porat Yosef Yeshiva Pressburg Yeshiva Sfas Emes Yeshiva Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva, for Ashkenazi students of Kabbalah Torah...
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  • founders of the Agudath Harabbonim Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), (Sfas Emes) Gerrer Rebbe Benjamin Artom (1835–1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese...
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  • that underlies the written word. Much later, in the 19th century, the Sfas Emes, a Hasidic rebbe, made the assertion that it was actually Abraham's deeds...
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  • of Rabbi Yehuda Arye Leib Alter of Ger “Sfas Emes”, and in-law of Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, the "Imrei Emes" and his son Rabbi Yisrael Alter, the "Beis...
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     257. ISBN 9781532661709. Grossbard, Rabbi Simcha Leib. Gleaned from the Sfas Emes: Parshas Noach. Goldstein, Rabbi Moshe (2009). Journey to Jerusalem: The...
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    rebbes such as the Gerrer Rebbe Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (known as the Sfas Emes), the Chernobyler Rebbe, and the Vizhnitzer Rebbe flocked to their towns...
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  • liturgical text, practices, and melodies. They use the Rödelheim Siddur Sfas Emes (see: Wolf Heidenheim), though the congregation's nusach varies in some...
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    Alter, Kasher moved to Jerusalem, in Mandate Palestine, to establish the Sfas Emes Yeshiva in honour of the Rebbe's father, Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter. He...
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    and his son, Pinchas Menachem Alter (left) in an ohel adjacent to the Sfas Emes Yeshiva in downtown Jerusalem Ohel of the Baal Shem Tov in Medzhybizh...
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    Gad Justman and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Alter of Pabianice, son of the Sfas Emes. His commentary on the Talmud and Psalms disappeared at some point during...
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    century: Shaar Hashamayim in 1906, Chabad's Toras Emes in 1911, Hebron Yeshiva in 1924, Sfas Emes in 1925, Lomza in 1926. After (and during) World War...
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  • Yeshiva (Jerusalem) Sfas Emes Yeshiva Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva Shapell's Darche Noam Shuvu Bonim Torah Ore Torah Tech Toras Emes Chabad Lubavitch Yeshiva...
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    Rabbi Chanoch Henich of Alexander, but who then became a follower of the Sfas Emes of Ger. At the age of nine, Plotsky was sent to learn in the yeshiva of...
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    prayers. Verse 12 is said during Maariv on Yom Kippur night. In the Siddur Sfas Emes, Psalm 36 is recited on behalf of a sick person. Verse 1b is quoted in...
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    recited as a prayer for a childless woman to give birth. In the Siddur Sfas Emes, this psalm is said as a prayer "for the well-being of an ill person"...
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    verses said after learning Mishnayos for a deceased person. In the Siddur Sfas Emes, this psalm is said as a prayer for the well-being of an ailing person...
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