Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (7 November 1878 – 24 October 1953), also known as the Chazon Ish (Hebrew: החזון איש) after his magnum opus, was a Belarusian-born...

Karelitz (Yiddish: קארעליץ, Hebrew: קרליץ) may refer to: Yiddish name of Karelichy (also Korelits, Korelitsh) Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (1878–1953) Nissim...

commentary on the Talmud, published long before his death in 1953, Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz considered the question of whether it is ethical to deflect a projectile...

Chaim Naeh put the linear measurement of a cubit at 48 cm (19 in). Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (the "Chazon Ish"), dissenting, put the length of a cubit at 57...

Karelitz was a nephew of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, known as the Chazon Ish. (The latter's sister was Karelitz's mother). The Chazon Ish was a previous...

first told Chaim Ozer Grodzinski about the unknown, hidden genius, Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz. Rosen was a Zionist, unlike the Chazon Ish. There was a plan to...

directorate of the Board of Yeshivas. In his youth, he studied under Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz as well as at the yeshivot of Ponevezh and Hebron. With the death...

2022, a Palestinian man killed five people in a mass shooting. Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish) emigrated from Belarus to Bnei Brak in its early...

wearing a woolen garment following the Shulchan Aruch's ruling, Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz was known to wear cotton, following the ruling of the Vilna Gaon...

fit 144 eggs; most Orthodox Jews use the stringent ruling of the Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, according to which one seah is 14.3 litres, and therefore a mikveh...

between 161.5 millilitres (5.68 imp fl oz; 5.46 US fl oz) (Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz) and 90.7 millilitres (3.19 imp fl oz; 3.07 US fl oz) (Rabbi Avraham...

Yisrael Kanievsky ("the Steipler") and Pesha Miriam, sister of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish). His father served as his sandek at his brit milah...

Yitzchok) (1906–1980), European-born American and Israeli Rosh Yeshiva Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (Chazon Ish) (1878–1953), Belarusian-born, leading halakhic authority...

circles there is a proclivity to follow the stringent ruling of Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, or Eliyahu of Vilna, whose view is that the size of eggs has progressively...

merits of the World to Come to a Gentile friend. According to Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, the tractate does include Christianity as a form of idolatry:...

Yeshiva, and cultivated relationships with rabbis Soloveitchik, Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish) and Dov Berish Weidenfeld, with whom he used to...

from many great teachers such as Ezra Attiya, Sadqa Hussein, and Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish). He would later come into contact with Mordechai...

sanctity, and it must be treated in the special ways detailed above. Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, a noted Haredi halakhic authority who issued key rulings on Jewish...

Talmud, Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz gave him permission to include his commentaries on the condition that they would be organized by Avrohom, who was 17...

Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, Ezra Ettiah, Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, and Shmuel Wosner take the same position. A man and woman who...

During this period he also became very close to the Chazon Ish Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz. After his marriage in 1946, Shapiro spent one year learning in...

Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro. Shmidel frequently consulted Rabbis Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz and Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik. After the death of Rabbi Soloveitchik...

by Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz. Ultimately, the Chief Rabbinate declined to approve the Malagasy meat, in deference to Rabbi Karelitz's argument....

Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist (d. 1954) Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, Belarusian-born Orthodox rabbi (d. 1953) November 8 – Dorothea...

Rabbi David ibn abi Zimra (the Radvaz, 1479–1573), and Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish, 1878-1953), who rejected the possibility of forming...

idolatry. However, other 20th century explanations differ. Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish) wrote that Jewish law considers Christianity to...

the surname, Karelitz after the town of Karelichy. Some of his most famous rabbinical descendants were the Rabbis Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (author of the...

on Talmud study. The Kollel was originally established by Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, who was known as the Chazon Ish. Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky...

guidance of many Orthodox Jewish leaders of the time, including Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz. The Halacha Yomis and the Mishnah Yomis (also started at about...

Jewish religious education. He studied for several years with Reb Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, the Chazon Ish (1878–1953), one of observant Judaism's great Torah...