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    Moshe Feinstein (Yiddish: משה פֿײַנשטײן; Lithuanian pronunciation: Moishe Fainshtein; English: Moses Feinstein; March 3, 1895 – March 23, 1986) was a Russian-born...
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  • kollel, inheriting the position after the passing of his father Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in 1986. He also wrote a number of books on such topics as halacha...
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  • Dovid Feinstein (1929–2020), American Orthodox rabbi, son of Moshe Feinstein Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), British writer Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1912–2006)...
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    (Jewish law). Tendler was the son-in-law of Moshe Feinstein, a world-renowned posek. Some of Feinstein's "Iggerot Mosheh" responsa are addressed to his...
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    rulings by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the foremost halachic authority of the late 20th century in the United States; Responsa in Igrot Moshe are cited in parentheses...
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    Jerusalem Talmud and is generally the accepted ruling today. However, R' Moshe Feinstein permitted divorced and widowed women to uncover their hair in cases...
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    Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2007 Moshe Barazani Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine The last words of Barazani and Feinstein Archived 2012-02-27 at the...
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    Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's two sons, the leading posek of post-war America. Reuven Feinstein is the youngest of the four children of Rabbi Moshe and Shima...
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  • Rabbi Aharon Kotler, and was ordained by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. He was born in Fürth, Germany in 1937. Moshe left with his parents for England shortly after...
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    HaLevi. He married Pesya Feinstein, daughter of the Rabbi of Pruzany, Eliyahu Feinstein, and first cousins with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. At the age of 31, he...
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    went to live with his grandfather, Dovid Feinstein, the rabbi of Starobin, Belarus. His uncle was Moshe Feinstein. He went to Slutsk after his bar mitzvah...
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    kosher milk. Today, many kosher-keeping Jews rely on the ruling of Rav Moshe Feinstein, who argues that since countries such as the United States have strict...
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    Mandatory Palestine. Feinstein, who was sentenced to death by the British authorities, is remembered for his suicide together with Moshe Barazani, a member...
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    that all garment types are acceptable. While the Mishnah Berurah and Moshe Feinstein recommend wearing a woolen garment following the Shulchan Aruch's ruling...
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  • commentator Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933), (Levush Mordechai), Talmudist and co-head of Slabodka yeshiva Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), (Igrot Moshe), Russian-American...
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  • by a hen kept isolated from roosters), many authorities (including Moshe Feinstein and Ovadia Yosef—the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel) rule that...
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    Rashi. Rabbi Soloveitchik's mother, Pesha, was a first cousin of Rav Moshe Feinstein. Soloveitchik was educated in the traditional manner at a Talmud Torah...
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    9 August 2007. Finkelman, Shimon (2011). Reb Moshe : the life and ideals of haGaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. ISBN 978-1-4226-1084-8. OCLC 805391556. Wikimedia...
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    rabbis such as Moshe Feinstein ordered that anyone who does not have enough money is released from the mitzvah. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein rules that it is...
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    exclusive gentile custom where the clothing is immodest. Rabbi and posek Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986) subscribed to the same strictures. Judaism portal Biblical...
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  • Conservative or Reform auspices. When dealing with the individual, Moshe Feinstein is famously quoted as characterizing all current-day non-Orthodox Jews...
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    Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (category Moshe Feinstein)
    City. One of the oldest yeshivas in the city, MTJ was once led by Moshe Feinstein. A second campus, known as Yeshiva of Staten Island, is located in...
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  • A Conversation with the Legendary Sons of Rav Moshe Feinstein, ztz”l: Rav Dovid and Rav Reuven Feinstein, shlita by Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter, Mishpacha...
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    practicing rabbi who thus had more experience with halachic dilemmas. R' Moshe Feinstein also preferred the Aruch Hashulchan, for the last of these reasons...
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  • Zvi Yehuda Berlin Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein Rabbi Moshe Feinstein Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel...
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    However, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein wrote a responsum stating that while inadvisable, smoking was permitted for one who had already started. Feinstein explained...
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  • Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a leading Rabbinical authority for Orthodox Judaism of the second half of the twentieth century....
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    during the Maccabean Revolt. 13 Adar (1895–1986) – Death of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein 14 Adar (474 BCE) – Purim victory celebrated in the Persian Empire...
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    Rabbi Yaakov Kantarovich, and Rabbi David Feinstein, father of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. David Feinstein, Reb Moshe's father, was chosen by Reb Elye as a groom...
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    he became a cantor, and at age 25 he received semikhah from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and was ordained a rabbi (as his three brothers, father, grandfather...
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