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Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, the Glossary

Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah ("Council of great Torah ") is the supreme rabbinical policy-making council of the Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah movements in Israel; and of Agudath Israel of America in the United States.^[1]

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Rabbinical organizations

Aaron Schechter

Aaron Moshe Schechter (or Aharon Moshe Schechter, July 16, 1928 – August 24, 2023) was an American Haredi rabbi.

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Agudat Yisrael

Agudat Yisrael (lit, also transliterated Agudath Israel, or, in Yiddish, Agudas Yisroel) is a Haredi Jewish political party in Israel.

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Agudath Israel of America

Agudath Israel of America (אגודת ישראל באמריקה) (also called the Agudah) is an American organization that represents Haredi Orthodox Jews. Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and Agudath Israel of America are Agudat Yisrael and rabbinical organizations.

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Aharon Feldman

Rabbi Aharon Feldman (born 1932) is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel (Ner Israel Rabbinical College) in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Aharon Kotler

Aharon Kotler (February 2, 1892 – November 29, 1962) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania and the United States; the latter being where he founded Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.

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Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman

Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (אהרן יהודה לייב שטינמן), also Shtainman or Steinman (November 3, 1914 – December 12, 2017), was a Haredi rabbi in Bnei Brak, Israel.

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Aleksander (Hasidic dynasty)

Aleksander (Yiddish: אלעקסאנדער) is a Polish Hasidic dynasty originating from the city of Aleksandrow Lodzki, Poland, where it was founded by Grand Rabbi Yechiel Denciger (1828–1894).

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Aryeh Finkel

Aryeh Finkel (1931–2016) was a Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Mir Brachfeld branch of the Mir Yeshiva.

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Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.

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Av Beit Din

The av beit din, abbreviated (אב״ד avad), was the second-highest-ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Temple period and served as an assistant to the nasi.

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Avraham Mordechai Alter

Avraham Mordechai Alter (Abraham Mordechaj Alter, Yiddish: Avram Mordche Alter, אברהם מרדכי אלתר; 25 December 1865 – 13 June 1948), was also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he authored.

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Avraham Yaakov Pam

Avraham Yaakov Pam (1913 – August 16, 2001) was the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York.

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Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (fifth Sadigura rebbe)

Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (August 21, 1928 – January 1, 2013) was the fifth Rebbe of the Sadigura Hasidic dynasty.

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Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (third Sadigura rebbe)

Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, in English also spelled Abraham Jacob Friedman (July 30, 1884Friedman, Yisroel. The Golden Dynasty: Ruzhin, the royal house of Chassidus. Jerusalem: The Kest-Lebovits Jewish Heritage and Roots Library, 2nd English edition, 2000, p. 35. – December 24, 1961) was the third Rebbe of the Sadigura Hasidic dynasty.

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Baruch Dov Povarsky

Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky, often referred to as Rabbi Berel Povarsky, is rosh yeshiva of one of the two divisions of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel.

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Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi

Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi (27 March 1929 – 26 October 2023) was an Israeli Haredi (ultra-orthodox) rabbi, and a leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews.

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Baruch Sorotzkin

Rephoel Baruch Sorotzkin (February 5, 1917 - February 10, 1979) was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders. He was born on February 5, 1917 (13th of Shevat, 5677) in Zhetl, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus).

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Baruch Weisbecker

Baruch Weisbecker (21 November 1940 – 2 February 2024) was an Israeli rabbi, the rosh yeshiva of Beit Mattityahu in Bnei Brak, and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.

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Beit Matityau Yeshiva

Beit Matityau Yeshiva is a Yeshiva gedolah in Bnei Brak, Israel, that belongs to the Orthodox-Litvaks movement.

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Belz (Hasidic dynasty)

Belz (בעלזא) is a Hasidic dynasty founded in the town of Belz in Western Ukraine, near the Polish border, historically the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

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Biala (Hasidic dynasty)

Biala (Yiddish: ביאלע) is a Hasidic dynasty originating from the city of Biała Rawska, where it was founded by R. Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowicz (II) (1847 - 1905).

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Bluzhev (Hasidic dynasty)

Bluzhev (also spelled Bluzhov or Bluzov) is a Hasidic dynasty originating in Błażowa, Poland and currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Boston (Hasidic dynasty)

Boston is a Hasidic dynasty, originally established in 1915 by Rabbi Pinchas David Horowitz, a scion of the Nikolsburg Hasidic dynasty.

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Boyan (Hasidic dynasty)

Boyan (באיאן) is a Hasidic dynasty named after the town of Boiany in the historic region of Bukovina, now in Ukraine.

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Brody

Brody (Броди; Brody; Brody; Brod) is a city in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Chabad

Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch, is a branch of Orthodox Judaism, originating from Eastern Europe.

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Chaim Kanievsky

Shemaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (שמריהו יוסף חיים קַניֶבסקִי; January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek.

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Chaim Mordechai Katz

Chaim Mordechai Katz (חיים מרדכי כץ; April 9, 1894 – November 17, 1964) was an Orthodox rabbi, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders.

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Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (חיים עוזר גראדזענסקי; August 24, 1863 – August 9, 1940) was a Av beis din (rabbinical chief justice), posek (halakhic authority), and Talmudic scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for over 55 years.

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Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg

Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (חיים פנחס שיינברג;&lrm; 1 October 1910 – 20 March 2012) was a Polish-born, American-raised, Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, from 1965, made his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem.

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Chaim Soloveitchik

Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik (Yiddish: חיים סאָלאָווייטשיק, Chaim Sołowiejczyk), also known as Chaim Brisker (1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the Brisker method of Talmudic study within Judaism.

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Chortkov (Hasidic dynasty)

Chortkov (also Chortkov, Tshortkov, Czortkow) is a Hasidic dynasty that originated in Chortkiv (Czortków), present-day Ukraine.

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David Zvi Hoffmann

David Zvi Hoffmann (November 24, 1843, Verbó, Austrian Empire – November 20, 1921, Berlin) (דוד צבי הופמן), was an Orthodox Rabbi and Torah Scholar.

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Degel HaTorah

Degel HaTorah (Banner of the Torah) is an Ashkenazi Haredi political party in Israel.

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Dov Lando

Dov Lando (born 5 April 1930) is the rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak along with Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, a rabbi of Chug Chazon Ish, and a member of the directorate of the Board of Yeshivas.

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Dov Yaffe

Dov Yaffe (דב יפה; 1928–2017) was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi, mashgiach, and leader of the Musar movement.

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Dovid Bornsztain

Dovid Bornsztain (1876 – 17 November 1942), also spelled Borenstein, Bornstein and Bernstein, known as the Chasdei Dovid, was the third Rebbe of the Sochatchov Hasidic dynasty.

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Dovid Feinstein

Dovid Feinstein (דוד פיינשטיין; 1929 – November 6, 2020) was an American rabbi and halachic authority.

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Elazar Shach

Elazar Menachem Man Shach (אלעזר מנחם מן שך, Elazar Shach; January 1, 1899 O.S. – November 2, 2001) was a Haredi rabbi who headed Lithuanian Orthodox Jews in Israel and around the world from the early 1970s until his death.

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Elchonon Wasserman

Elchonon Bunim Wasserman (אלחנן בונים וסרמן; 18746 July 1941) was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) in prewar Europe.

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Eliezer Silver

Eliezer Silver (אליעזר סילבר; February 15, 1882Social Security Death Index - February 7, 1968) was the President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders.

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Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1965)

Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (also called Leizer Yudel Finkel) is a Haredi Jewish rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, which is considered to be the largest yeshiva in Israel with a student body of 6,000 students.

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Elya Brudny

Elya Brudny (born 1948) is an American Haredi rabbi.

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Elya Svei

Elya Svei (March 19, 1924 (Taanis Esther 5684) – March 26, 2009 (Rosh Chodesh Nisan 5769)) was an American Haredi Jewish rabbi and co-rosh yeshiva (with Shmuel Kamenetsky) of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia.

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Erlau (Hasidic dynasty)

Erlau (ערלוי, also spelled Erloi), is a Haredi dynasty of Hungarian origin, which follows the teachings of the Chasam Sofer and is often considered Hasidic.

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Gadol

Gadol or godol (plural: gedolim) (literally "big" or "great" in Hebrew) is used by religious Jews to refer to the most revered rabbis of the generation.

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Gedalia Schorr

Gedalyahu HaLevi Schorr (27 November 1910 – 2 July 1979; 7 Tammuz 5739), also known as Gedalia Schorr, was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva.

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Ger (Hasidic dynasty)

Ger (Yiddish: גער, also Gur, adj. Gerrer) is a Polish Hasidic dynasty originating from the town of Góra Kalwaria, Poland, where it was founded by Yitzchak Meir Alter (1798–1866), known as the "Chiddushei HaRim".

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Gershon Edelstein

Yerachmiel Gershon Edelstein (18 April 1923 – 30 May 2023) was a Soviet-born Israeli rabbi who was rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, president of the Vaad Hayeshivos, and the spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah party in Israel.

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Grodno Yeshiva

Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah – Grodna, often referred to as the Grodna Yeshiva or simply as Grodna, was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in the Belarusian city of Grodno, then under Russian rule.

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Hamodia

Hamodia (המודיע – "the Informer") is a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in Jerusalem.

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Hasidic Judaism

Hasidism or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Eastern Europe.

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Hebron Yeshiva

Hebron Yeshiva, also known as Yeshivas Hevron, or Knesses Yisroel, is a yeshiva (school for Talmudic study).

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History of the Jews in Poland

The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israel Alter

Israel Alter (also: Yisraʾel Alter,See Integrated Authority File of German National Library born September 23, 1901 in Lemberg, died November 16, 1979, in New York City) was an Austrian-HungarianClaudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen (ed.), Sophie Fetthauer (Assistant): Israel Alter (look up under External links) Jewish cantor and last chief cantor in Hanover, Germany.

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Israelis

Israelis (translit; translit) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel.

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Isser Zalman Meltzer

Isser Zalman Meltzer (איסר זלמן מלצר) (February 6, 1870 – November 17, 1953),Isser Zalman Meltzer "Even HaEzel" (1870 - 1953) was a Jewish rabbi, rosh yeshiva and posek.

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Izhbitza-Radzin

Izhbitza-Radzin is the name of a dynasty of Hasidic rebbes.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher.

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Kashrut

(also or, כַּשְׁרוּת) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jewish people are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law.

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Katowice

Katowice is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. Katowice is a central part of the Metropolis GZM, with a population of 2.3 million, and a part of a larger Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area that extends into the Czech Republic and has a population of around 5 million people, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the European Union.

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Klausenburg (Hasidic dynasty)

Klausenburg, also known as Sanz-Klausenburg, is a Hasidic dynasty that originated in the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg, Kolozsvár), today in Romania.

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Knesset

The Knesset (translit, translit) is the unicameral legislature of Israel.

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Kol Torah

Kol Torah is a yeshiva in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem.

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Levi Yitzchak Horowitz

Levi Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz (born 3 July 1921, Boston, died 5 December 2009, Jerusalem) was a rabbi and the second rebbe of the Boston Hasidic Dynasty founded by his father, Pinchos Dovid Horowitz.

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Malkiel Kotler

Aryeh Malkiel Kotler (born April 1951) is a Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey, one of the largest yeshivas in the world.

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Mayer Alter Horowitz

Mayer Alter Horowitz is an American Hasidic rabbi.

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Meir Arik

Rabbi Meir Arik (1855–1925) was a famous Galician Torah scholar.

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Meir Dan Plotzky

Meir Dan Plotsky (or Plotski) (1866 - March 27, 1928) was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and the president of Kollel Polen, a talmudic scholar who authored the Kli Chemdah, a commentary on the Torah.

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Meir Shapiro

Yehuda Meir Shapiro (Majer Jehuda Szapira; 3 March 1887 – 27 October 1933) was a prominent Polish Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva, also known as the Lubliner Rav.

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Meir Simcha of Dvinsk

Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926) was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century.

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Menachem Mendel Hager

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager (born November 28, 1957) is one of the two Grand Rabbis of the Viznitz (Admor Mviznitz) Hasidic dynasty in Bnei Brak and a current member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of great Torah Sages) of the Agudat Yisrael movement.

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Menachem Ziemba

Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (1883–1943) (מנחם זמבה) was a distinguished pre-World War II Rabbi, known as a Talmudic genius and prodigy.

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Mendel Zaks

Menachem Mendel Yosef Zaks (מענדיל זאקס; 1898–1974) (commonly known as Rabbi Mendel Zaks) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Belarus and the United States, best known for being the Rosh Yeshiva of the Raduń Yeshiva and being the son-in-law to Yisrael Meir Kagan, the Chofetz Chaim.

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Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz

Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz (1913 – 27 June 2011) was an Israeli Haredi Torah leader and rosh yeshiva in Bnei Brak for over 70 years.

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Mir Brachfeld

Mir Brachfeld is an Haredi Jewish yeshiva in the Israeli settlement of Modi'in Illit.

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Mir Yeshiva (Jerusalem)

The Mir Yeshiva (ישיבת מיר, Yeshivat Mir), known also as The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem.

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Misnagdim

Misnagdim ("Opponents"; Sephardi pronunciation: Mitnagdim; singular misnaged/mitnaged) was a religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Modzitz

Modzitz, or Modzhitz, is the name of a Hasidic group within Orthodox Judaism that derives its name from Modrzyce, one of the boroughs of the town of Dęblin, Poland, located on the Vistula River.

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Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah

Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah (Hebrew:; lit., "Council of Torah Sages") is the rabbinical body that has the ultimate authority in the Israeli ultra-Orthodox Sephardic and Mizrahi Shas Party. Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah are rabbinical organizations.

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Mordechai Gifter

Mordechai Gifter (October 15, 1915 - January 18, 2001) was an American Haredi rabbi.

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Mordechai Shlomo Friedman

Mordechai Shlomo Friedman (15 October 1891 in Boiany, Ukraine – 2 March 1971 in New York City), sometimes called Solomon Mordecai Friedman, was the Boyaner Rebbe of New York for over 40 years.

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Moshe Feinstein

Moshe Feinstein (משה פײַנשטיין; Lithuanian pronunciation: Moshe Faynshteyn; Moses Feinstein; March 3, 1895 – March 23, 1986) was a Russian-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, scholar, and posek (authority on halakha—Jewish law).

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Moshe Hillel Hirsch

Moshe Hillel Hirsch (born Milton Hirsch October 26, 1936) is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Slabodka in Bnei Brak, Israel.

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Moshe Mordechai Epstein

Moshe Mordechai Epstein (7 March 1866–28 November 1933) was rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth century.

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Nachum Dov Brayer

Nachum Dov Brayer (born April 15, 1959) is the Rebbe of the Boyan Hasidic dynasty.

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Nissim Karelitz

Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz (נסים קרליץ; July 19, 1926 – October 21, 2019) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and posek who served as the chairman of the beis din tzedek (rabbinical court) of Bnei Brak.

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Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Mir)

Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel (12 March 1943 – 8 November 2011) was an American-born Haredi Litvish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Ovadia Yosef

Ovadia Yosef (עובדיה יוסף|Ovadya Yosef,; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party.

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Piešťany

Piešťany (Pistyan, Pöstyén, Pieszczany, Píšťany) is a town in Slovakia.

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Pinchas Menachem Alter

Pinchas Menachem Alter (פינחס מנחם אלתר, June 9, 1926 – March 7, 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem (פני מנחם), after the works he authored, was the seventh rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996.

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Ponevezh Yeshiva

Ponevezh Yeshiva, often pronounced as Ponevitch Yeshiva (ישיבת פוניבז׳), is a yeshiva founded in 1908 in Panevėžys (Ponevezh), Lithuania, and located today in Bnei Brak, Israel since 1944.

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Posek

In Jewish law, a posek (פוסק, pl. poskim) is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.

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Poznań

Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region.

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Przemyśl

Przemyśl is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021.

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Rabbi

A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.

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Rabbinic authority in Judaism relates to the theological and communal authority attributed to rabbis and their pronouncements in matters of Jewish law.

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Rebbe

A Rebbe (translit) or Admor (אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.

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Refael Reuvain Grozovsky

Refael Reuvain Grozovsky (Рафаэль Гразоўскі; 1886, Minsk, Belarus – 1958, United States) was a leading Orthodox rabbi, Jewish religious leader and rosh yeshiva ("dean") known for his Talmudic analytical style.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva (ראש ישיבה, pl. ראשי ישיבה,; Anglicized pl. rosh yeshivas) is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and the Torah, and halakha (Jewish law).

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Sadigura (Hasidic dynasty)

Sadigura is a Hasidic dynasty named for the city of Sadhora (Sadigura in Yiddish), Bukovina, which was part of the Austrian Empire.

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Sephardic Jews

Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

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Shas

Shas (ש״ס) is a Haredi religious political party in Israel.

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Shlomo Heiman

Shlomo Heiman, (1892–1944) known informally as "Reb Shlomo", was a rabbi, Talmudist, and rosh yeshiva.

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Shlomo Miller

Shlomo Eliyahu Miller is a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages).

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Shlomo Zalman Auerbach

Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (שלמה זלמן אויערבאך; July 20, 1910 – February 20, 1995) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem.

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Shmuel Dovid Ungar

Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar (23 November 1885 – 9 February 1945), also known as Rabbi Samuel David Ungar, was the rabbi of the Hungarian city of Nyitra (now Nitra, Slovakia) and dean of the last surviving yeshiva in occupied Europe during World War II.

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Shmuel Kamenetsky

Shmuel Kamenetsky (born 12 November 1924) is an American Haredi rabbi.

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Shneur Kotler

Yosef Chaim Shneur Kotler (1918 – 24 June 1982) was an Ashkenazi Orthodox rabbi from the Lithuanian movement and rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha (also known as the Lakewood Yeshiva) in Lakewood, New Jersey from 1962 to 1982.

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Sholom Dovber Schneersohn

Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (שלום דובער שניאורסאהן) was the fifth rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch chasidic movement.

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Simcha Bunim Alter

Simcha Bunim Alter (שמחה בונים אלתר; April 6, 1898 – July 7, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (לב שמחה), after the works he authored, was the sixth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1977 until his death.

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Slabodka yeshiva (Bnei Brak)

Slabodka Yeshiva is a branch of the Hebron Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, founded by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher.

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Slonim (Hasidic dynasty)

Slonim is a Hasidic dynasty originating in the town of Slonim, which is now in Belarus.

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Sochatchov (Hasidic dynasty)

Sochatchov (Yiddish: סאכאטשאוו) is a Hasidic dynasty originating from the town of Sochaczew, Poland, where it was founded by Avrohom Bornsztain (1838–1910).

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Solomon Breuer

Solomon (Shlomo Zalman) Breuer (27 June 1850 – 17 July 1926) was a Hungarian-born German rabbi, initially in Pápa, Hungary, and from the early 1890s in Frankfurt as a successor of his father-in-law Samson Raphael Hirsch.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Tifrah

Tifrah (shall blossom) is a religious moshav in southern Israel.

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Torah database

A Torah database (מאגר תורני or מאגר יהדות) is a collection of classic Jewish texts in electronic form, the kinds of texts which, especially in Israel, are often called "The Traditional Jewish Bookshelf" (ארון הספרים היהודי); the texts are in their original languages (Hebrew or Aramaic).

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Torah Judaism

Torah Judaism refers to schools of thought in Judaism perceived to be most adherent to the Torah and mitzvot. The term is often used by Orthodox Jewish groups to refer to their own system of beliefs.

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Turda

Turda (Torda,; Thorenburg; Potaissa) is a city in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)

Vizhnitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager.

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World Agudath Israel

World Agudath Israel (אגודת ישראל), usually known as the Aguda, was established in the early twentieth century as the political arm of Ashkenazi Torah Judaism. Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and World Agudath Israel are Agudat Yisrael.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yaakov Aryeh Alter

Yaakov Aryeh Alter (Jakub Arie Alter, יעקב אריה אלתר, born 18 May 1939) is the eighth, and current, Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he has held since 1996.

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Yaakov Kamenetsky

Yaakov Kamenetsky (February 28, 1891 – March 10, 1986), was a prominent rabbi, rosh yeshiva, posek and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community.

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Yaakov Perlow

Yaakov Perlow (יעקבֿ פּערלאָוו יעקב פרלוב&lrm;; November 16, 1930 – April 7, 2020) was an American Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva, and Rebbe of the Novominsk Hasidic dynasty.

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Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman

Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman (Shushan Purim 1900, Daŭhinava – July 11, 1987) was a prominent Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi who founded and served as rosh yeshiva (yeshiva head) of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore.

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Yated Ne'eman (Israel)

Yated Ne'eman (יָתֵד נֶאֱמָן) is a semi-major Israeli daily Hebrew language newspaper based in Bnei Brak.

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Yehuda Leib Tsirelson

Yehuda Leib Tsirelson (1859 in Kozelets, Chernihiv Oblast – 1941 in Kishinev, Soviet Union) was the Chief Rabbi of Bessarabia, a member of the Romanian parliament, and a prominent Jewish leader and posek.

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Yerucham Olshin

Yerucham Olshin is an Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages).

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Yeshiva

A yeshiva or jeshibah (ישיבה||sitting; pl. ישיבות, or) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in parallel.

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Yisrael Alter

Yisrael Alter (Izrael Alter, Hebrew:; October 1895 – 20 February 1977), also known as the Beit Yisrael, after the works he authored, was the fifth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1948 until 1977.

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Yisrael Meir Kagan

Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (January 26, 1838 – September 15, 1933) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Orthodox Jewish life.

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Yisrael Spira

Yisroel Spira (November 12, 1889 – October 30, 1989), the Bluzhover Rebbe, was a senior member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, and a Holocaust survivor.

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Yisroel Hager (the second)

Yisroel Hager (born April 19, 1945), is one of the two Grand Rabbis of Vizhnitz in Bnei Brak and a member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of great Torah Sages) of Agudat Israel.

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Yisroel Moshe Friedman

Yisroel Moshe Friedman (July 23, 1955August 10, 2020) was the sixth Rebbe of the Sadigura Hasidic dynasty.

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Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe)

Yissachar Dov Rokeach (born 19 January 1948)Landesman, Yerucham.

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Yitzchak Hutner

Yitzchak Hutner (יצחק הוטנר; 1906November 28, 1980), also known as Isaac Hutner, was an American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean).

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Yitzchak Isaac Sher

Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher was the rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania and Bnei Brak.

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Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern

Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern of Kotzk-Sokolov (Hebrew: יצחק זליג מורגנשטרן, מסוקולוב, Yiddish: זעליג מארגענשטערן, מסאקאלאוו, of Sokolov; 1866 – 16 October 1939 (3 Cheshvan 5700)) was an Admor and Rosh yeshiva, a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and a leader of Polish Jewry before the Holocaust, who died shortly after the war began.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moetzes_Gedolei_HaTorah

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