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...

founding the party, Yosef received strategic help and guidance from Rabbi Elazar Shach, leader of Israel's non-Hasidic Haredi Ashkenazi Jews. Yosef founded...

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...

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...

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...

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...

movement. For example, within their respective communities Elazar Shach (Maran HaRav Shach) and Joel Teitelbaum often receive the title. As with most...

publisher of Breslov teachings Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach (1899–2001), Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak,...

Contreras (1883–1973), Venezuelan army general and president of Venezuela Elazar Shach (1898–2001), rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh yeshiva and founded the Degel...

"Litvish" (Lithuanian-style Haredi) membership. However, in the 1980s, Rabbi Elazar Shach, leader of Israel's Litvish community and their pre-eminent rosh yeshiva...

Rabbi Akiva Eger Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan Rabbi Moshe Feinstein Rabbi Elazar Shach Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman...

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...

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...

sanctity refers to the requirement that they be redeemed. According to Elazar Shach, it means that the firstborn is expected to be especially knowledgeable...

Ashkenazi rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Rabbi Elazar Shach (who subsequently founded the Degel HaTorah party) fiercely commanded...

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...

Schneerson (1902–1994), seventh Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch Elazar Shach (1899–2001) (rav shach) Rosh Yeshiva Ponevezh and Posek Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870–1939;...

Adin Steinsaltz, referring to strongly worded comments made by Rabbi Elazar Shach in 1989. It is clear that Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz' untraditional and 'university...

Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Hadran al HaRambam), Elazar Shach (Avi Ezri), Nahum Rabinovitch (Yad Peshuta), and Rabbi Yosef Kapach....

January 22 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian and Soviet film director (d. 1948) Elazar Shach, Lithuanian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. 2001) January 23 – Randolph...

of the Ashkenazi Torah sages council, especially the support of Rabbi Elazar Shach - a support that has stopped along with the independent decision of the...

Rabbi Hershel Schachter Rabbi Aaron Schechter Rabbi Gedalia Schorr Rabbi Elazar Shach Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira Rabbi Meir Shapiro Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro Rabbi...

Ner Yisroel, Baltimore Yechezkel Sarna, rosh yeshiva, Hebron yeshiva Elazar Shach, rosh yeshiva, Ponovezh yeshiva Moshe Shatzkes, Polish-born rabbi and...

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...

lead was down to 2%. Several leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis, including Elazar Shach, called on their followers to vote for Netanyahu, whilst Leah Rabin,...

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...

peoplehood of the Beta Israel. Such dissenting voices include Rabbi Elazar Shach, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and Rabbi...

Yeshiva in 1953, and after the death of the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach, he became rosh yeshiva. Bad Kodesh Bad Kodesh al HaTorah Shiurei...

opposition in much of the Orthodox world, with many leading Rabbis such as Elazar Shach, Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, and Eliezer Waldenberg harshly condemning it...

nicknamed "The dirty trick". Two rabbis, Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Elazar Shach, strongly opposed cooperating with the political left. As a result, the...