Elazar Menachem Man Shach (Hebrew: אלעזר מנחם מן שך, Elazar Shach; January 1, 1899 O.S. – November 2, 2001) was a Haredi rabbi who headed Lithuanian Orthodox...
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founding the party, Yosef received strategic help and guidance from Rabbi Elazar Shach, leader of Israel's non-Hasidic Haredi Ashkenazi Jews. Yosef founded...
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Yehuda Amital (section Relationship with Elazar Shach)
Lichtenstein, would become the fourth Rosh Yeshiva.[citation needed] Rabbi Elazar Shach had been a student of Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer in Europe and he eventually...
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quarters in the Orthodox world, especially earning him the enmity of Rabbi Elazar Shach. In 1978, the U.S. Congress asked President Jimmy Carter to designate...
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in 1988, as a splinter from Agudat Israel. Its establishment by Rabbi Elazar Shach was due to ongoing policy disputes with the Hasidic rabbis within Agudat...
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but the late mentor and supreme guide of the non-Hasidic group, Rabbi Elazar Shach, broke away from the Hasidic wing when he concluded that the party was...
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movement. For example, within their respective communities Elazar Shach (Maran HaRav Shach) and Joel Teitelbaum often receive the title. As with most...
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Contreras (1883–1973), Venezuelan army general and president of Venezuela Elazar Shach (1898–2001), rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh yeshiva and founded the Degel...
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List of rabbis (section Rabbi Elazar Shach)
publisher of Breslov teachings Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach (1899–2001), Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak,...
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"Litvish" (Lithuanian-style Haredi) membership. However, in the 1980s, Rabbi Elazar Shach, leader of Israel's Litvish community and their pre-eminent rosh yeshiva...
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The position is usually obtained by those well versed in the Talmud. Elazar Shach told a future maggid shiur that the key to successful lectures is "knowing...
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Rabbi Akiva Eger Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan Rabbi Moshe Feinstein Rabbi Elazar Shach Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman...
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Ashkenazi rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Rabbi Elazar Shach (who subsequently founded the Degel HaTorah party) fiercely commanded...
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chess S'chach, material to cover huts, for the Jewish festival of Sukkot Elazar Shach (1899–2001), Haredi rabbi Gerhard Schach (1906–1972), Nazi politician...
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sanctity refers to the requirement that they be redeemed. According to Elazar Shach, it means that the firstborn is expected to be especially knowledgeable...
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was the [divine] wrath. The well-known Lithuanian Jewish leader, Rabbi Elazar Shach taught that the Holocaust was a divine punishment for the sins of the...
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January 22 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian and Soviet film director (d. 1948) Elazar Shach, Lithuanian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. 2001) January 23 – Randolph...
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lead was down to 2%. Several leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis, including Elazar Shach, called on their followers to vote for Netanyahu, whilst Leah Rabin,...
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Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Hadran al HaRambam), Elazar Shach (Avi Ezri), Nahum Rabinovitch (Yad Peshuta), and Rabbi Yosef Kapach....
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Adin Steinsaltz, referring to strongly worded comments made by Rabbi Elazar Shach in 1989. It is clear that Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz' untraditional and 'university...
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Schneerson (1902–1994), seventh Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch Elazar Shach (1899–2001) (rav shach) Rosh Yeshiva Ponevezh and Posek Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870–1939;...
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Rabbi Hershel Schachter Rabbi Aaron Schechter Rabbi Gedalia Schorr Rabbi Elazar Shach Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira Rabbi Meir Shapiro Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro Rabbi...
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opposition in much of the Orthodox world, with many leading Rabbis such as Elazar Shach, Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, and Eliezer Waldenberg harshly condemning it...
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peoplehood of the Beta Israel. Such dissenting voices include Rabbi Elazar Shach, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and Rabbi...
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the religious political party Degel HaTorah, its spiritual leader Rav Elazar Shach asked Rav Elyashiv to join in the public leadership, and he acceded to...
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Afterwards, he became the Rosh Yeshiva in Yeruham. At the request of Rabbi Elazar Shach and Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, Rabbi Pincus accepted the position...
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Faction. In particular, two disciples of Degel HaTorah party founder Elazar Shach, dayan Tzvi Friedman of Bnei Brak and Baruch Shmuel Deutsch of Kol Torah...
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the Degel HaTorah party which regards itself as the successor of Rabbi Elazar Shach and affiliated with Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, felt that it is not represented...
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: 7 The most notable of these critics was Elazar Shach, the rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh yeshiva. Shach was a known critic of Schneerson and the Chabad...
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nicknamed "The dirty trick". Two rabbis, Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Elazar Shach, strongly opposed cooperating with the political left. As a result, the...
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