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Yitzchak Isaac Sher, the Glossary

Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher was the rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania and Bnei Brak.^[1]

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20th-century Lithuanian rabbis
Academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva
Lithuanian Orthodox rabbis
Orthodox rabbis in Mandatory Palestine
People from Hlusk District
Rabbis in Bnei Brak
Slabodka yeshiva alumni
Writers of Musar literature

Ami Magazine

Ami Magazine (עמי, "My people") is an international news magazine that caters to the Orthodox Jewish community.

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Avraham Grodzinski (c. 1884 - July 13, 1944) was a rabbi who served as the mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) of the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Avraham Grodzinski are 20th-century Lithuanian rabbis, Slabodka yeshiva alumni and Writers of Musar literature.

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Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz

Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (7 November 1878 – 24 October 1953), also known as the Chazon Ish after his magnum opus, was a Belarusian-born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where he spent his final 20 years, from 1933 to 1953. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz are rabbis in Bnei Brak.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Bnei Brak

Bnei Brak or Bene Beraq (בְּנֵי בְּרַק) is a city located on the central Mediterranean coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv.

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Boruch Ber Leibowitz

Boruch Ber Leibowitz (ברוך בער לייבאוויץ Boruch Dov Libovitz; 1862 – November 17, 1939, known as Reb Boruch Ber, was a rabbi famed for his Talmudic lectures, particularly in that they were rooted styled in the method of his teacher Chaim Soloveitchik. He is known for leading Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak in Slabodka and Kaminetz. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Boruch Ber Leibowitz are rosh yeshivas.

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Cheder

A cheder (חדר, lit. 'room'; Yiddish pronunciation: khéyder) is a traditional primary school teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language.

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David Rappoport

Rabbi David HaKohen Rappoport (רב דוד הכהן רפפורט) (1890 – September 23, 1941) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Baranovich, Belarus (then part of Poland). He is known for leading Yeshiva Ohel Torah in Baranovich alongside Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and David Rappoport are rosh yeshivas.

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Dov Tzvi Heller

Dov Tzvi Heller (1862 – 1935) commonly called by his Yiddish name, Ber Hirsch Heller, was a rabbi and mashgiach ruchani at the Slabodka Yeshiva in Europe, as well as the father-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky and Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Dov Tzvi Heller are 20th-century Lithuanian rabbis and academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva.

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Dovid Leibowitz

Dovid Leibowitz (1887–1941) was a leading rabbi and disciple of prewar Europe's Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, who went on to found the Rabbinical Seminary of America, better known today as "Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen" or the "Chofetz Chaim yeshiva", as its first rosh yeshiva (dean) in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Dovid Leibowitz are 20th-century Lithuanian rabbis and Slabodka yeshiva alumni.

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Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1879)

Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, also known as Reb Leizer Yudel Finkel, (1879–1965) was the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in both its Polish and Jerusalemic incarnations. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1879) are rosh yeshivas and Slabodka yeshiva alumni.

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Elyah Lopian

Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian (1876 – 21 September 1970), known as Reb Elyah, was a rabbi of the Mussar Movement. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Elyah Lopian are rosh yeshivas.

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Feldheim Publishers

Feldheim Publishers (or Feldheim) is an American Orthodox Jewish publisher of Torah books and literature.

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Gemara

The Gemara (also transliterated Gemarah, or in Yiddish Gemore) is an essential component of the Talmud, comprising a collection of rabbinical analyses and commentaries on the Mishnah and presented in 63 books.

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Geni.com

Geni is an American commercial genealogy and social networking website, founded in 2006, and owned by MyHeritage, an Israeli private company, since November 2012.

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Hamodia

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

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Hebron

Hebron (الخليل, or خَلِيل الرَّحْمَن; חֶבְרוֹן) is a Palestinian.

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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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Hlusk

Hlusk (Глуск; Glusk; Hłusk) is an urban-type settlement in Mogilev Region, Belarus.

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Israel

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

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Kaunas

Kaunas (previously known in English as Kovno, also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.

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Kelmė

Kelmė (Kielmy) is a city in northwestern Lithuania, a historical region of Samogitia.

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Kollel

A kollel (כולל,,, a "gathering" or "collection") is an institute for full-time, advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.

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Kovno Kollel

Kovno Kollel also known as Kollel Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was a kollel located in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Kremenchuk

Kremenchuk (Кременчук) is an industrial city in central Ukraine which stands on the banks of the Dnieper River.

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Maggid shiur

A maggid shiur (shiur or Torah lecture) is the rabbi that lectures in a yeshiva or kollel.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

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Mashgiach ruchani

A mashgiach ruchani (משגיח רוחני; pl., mashgichim ruchani'im), sometimes mashgiach for short, is a spiritual supervisor or guide.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)

The Mir Yeshiva (ישיבת מיר, Yeshivat Mir), commonly known as the Mirrer Yeshiva (‏מירער ישיבה) or The Mir, was a Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Mir, Russian Empire (now Belarus).

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Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah

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.

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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. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Moshe Hillel Hirsch are academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva and rabbis in Bnei Brak.

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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. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Moshe Mordechai Epstein are academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva.

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MyHeritage

MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services, introduced by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003.

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Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)

Nosson Tzvi Finkel (נתן צבי פינקל, Sephardic/Israeli: Natan Tzvi; Nota Hirsch; 1849–1927) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe and founder of the Slabodka yeshiva, in the town of Sloboda Vilyampolskaya (now Vilijampolė, a suburb of Kaunas). Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka) are academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.

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Reb Yaakov: The Life and Times of HaGaon Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky

Reb Yaakov: The Life and Times of HaGaon Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky is a biography on Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, written by Yonasan Rosenblum and based on the research of Rabbi Noson Kamenetsky.

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Refael Shapiro

Rabbi Refael Shapiro (1837–1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russia, (now Valozhyn, Belarus), and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netziv). Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Refael Shapiro are rosh yeshivas.

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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). Yitzchak Isaac Sher and rosh yeshiva are rosh yeshivas.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Sifrei Kodesh

Sifrei Kodesh (Holy books), commonly referred to as sefarim (books), or in its singular form, sefer, are books of Jewish religious literature and are viewed by religious Jews as sacred.

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Simcha Zissel Ziv

Simcha Zissel Ziv Broida (שמחה זיסל זיו; 1824–1898), also known as Simhah Zissel Ziv or the Alter of Kelm (the Elder of Kelm), was one of the foremost students of Yisrael Salanter and one of the early leaders of the Musar movement.

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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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Torah

The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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Vilijampolė

Vilijampolė is a neighborhood in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, located on the right bank of the Neris River and the Nemunas River, near their confluence.

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Volozhin Yeshiva

Yeshivas Etz Ḥayyim, commonly called the Volozhin Yeshiva, was a prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russian Empire (now Valozhyn, Belarus).

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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. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Yaakov Kamenetsky are 20th-century Lithuanian rabbis and Slabodka yeshiva alumni.

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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. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman are rosh yeshivas and Slabodka yeshiva alumni.

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Yeshiva Torah Vodaas

Yeshiva Torah Vodaas (or Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath or Yeshiva Torah Vodaath or Torah Vodaath Rabbinical Seminary) is a yeshiva in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

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Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)

Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael was a yeshiva located in the town of Sloboda Vilyampolskaya in the Kovno Governorate of Russian Empire (now Vilijampolė in Kaunas, Lithuania).

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Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman

Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (1886–1969), יוסף שלמה כהנמן, יוסף שלמה כהנעמאן, known also as Ponevezher Rav, was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva. Yitzchak Isaac Sher and Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman are Israeli people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent and rabbis in Bnei Brak.

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References

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

Also known as Eizek Sher, Isaac Sher, Issac Sher, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Yitzchak Eizek Sher, Yitzchak Eyzik Sher, Yitzchok Isaac Sher.

, Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka), Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman.

Yitzchak Isaac Sher, the Glossary

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See also

20th-century Lithuanian rabbis

Academic staff of Slabodka yeshiva

Lithuanian Orthodox rabbis

Orthodox rabbis in Mandatory Palestine

People from Hlusk District

Rabbis in Bnei Brak

Slabodka yeshiva alumni

Writers of Musar literature

References