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Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, the Glossary

Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss (26 August 1926 – 29 July 2022) was the Chief Rabbi, or Gaavad (Gaon Av Beis Din), of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis.^[1]

Aron Grünhut

Aron Grünhut (1895–1974) was a Bratislava-based Jewish activist who helped 1,365 Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, and Austrian Jews illegally emigrate to Palestine before and during World War II.

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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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Bar and bat mitzvah

A bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, or b mitzvah (gender neutral), is a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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British nationality law

The primary law governing nationality in the United Kingdom is the British Nationality Act 1981, which came into force on 1 January 1983.

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Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi (translit) is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities.

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The Charedi Council of Jerusalem (העדה החרדית, haEdah haCharedit, Ashkenazi pronunciation: ha-Aideh Charaidis or ha-Eido ha-Chareidis; "Congregation of God-Fearers") is a large Haredi Jewish communal organization based in Jerusalem.

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Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892 – 31 December 1953) was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher of the 20th century. Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss and Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler are Haredi rabbis in Israel.

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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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Hiddush

In Rabbinic literature, ḥiddush (חִדּוּשׁ; plural ḥiddushim, חִדּוּשׁים) refers to a novel interpretation or approach to previously-existing ideas or works.

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History of the Jews in Antwerp

The history of the Jews in Antwerp, a major city in the modern country of Belgium, goes back at least eight hundred years.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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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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Kindertransport

The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi-controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939 during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

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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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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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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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Melamed

Melamed, Melammed (translit "teacher") in Biblical times denoted a religious teacher or instructor in general (e.g., in Psalm 119:99 and Proverbs 5:13), but which in the Talmudic period was applied especially to a teacher of children, and was almost invariably followed by the word tinokot (translit "children").

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Mishpacha

Mishpacha (משפחה,: Family) - Jewish Family Weekly is a Haredi weekly magazine package produced by The Mishpacha Group in both English and Hebrew.

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Moshe Sternbuch

Moshe Sternbuch (משה שטרנבוך; born 15 February 1926) is a British-born Israeli Haredi rabbi. Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss and Moshe Sternbuch are Anti-Zionist Haredi rabbis, Haredi rabbis in Israel and rabbis of the Edah HaChareidis.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nicholas Winton

Sir Nicholas George Winton (19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue Jewish children who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

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Pezinok

Pezinok (in the local dialect Pezinek; Bazin; Bösing; Bazinium) is a town in southwestern Slovakia.

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Shabbat

Shabbat (or; Šabbāṯ) or the Sabbath, also called Shabbos by Ashkenazim, is Judaism's day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday.

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Shavuot

Shavuot (from Weeks), or Shvues (in some Ashkenazi usage), is a Jewish holiday, one of the biblically ordained Three Pilgrimage Festivals.

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Synagogue

A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.

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Tefillin

Tefillin (Israeli Hebrew: /; Ashkenazic pronunciation:; Modern Hebrew pronunciation), or phylacteries, are a set of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah.

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The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.

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The Jewish Press

The Jewish Press is an American weekly newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Wilrijk

Wilrijk (former, original spelling: Wilrijck) is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

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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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References

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

Also known as Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, Yitzchok Tuvioh Weiss.

Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, the Glossary

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See also

21st-century Belgian rabbis

Anti-Zionist Haredi rabbis

Belgian Orthodox rabbis

British expatriates in Israel

British people of Slovak-Jewish descent

Czechoslovak emigrants to England

English Orthodox rabbis

Judaism in Antwerp

Rabbinic judges

Rabbis of the Edah HaChareidis

Slovak emigrants to the United Kingdom

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