Torah Shleimah
Jerusalem · 1927
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Menachem Mendel Kasher
Menachem Mendel Kasher
1895 CE–1983 CE · Acharonim · Warsaw
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher (1895-1983) was a rabbinic scholar and author born in Warsaw into a Gerrer Hasidic family; his father was Rabbi Yitzchak Peretz. He studied under leading Polish rabbis, received ordination from Meir Dan Plotzki in 1915, and as a young man edited Degel HaTorah, an Agudath Israel periodical. Around 1924-1925 he settled in Jerusalem at the call of the Ger Rebbe to lead the newly established Sfas Emes yeshiva. His central undertaking was Torah Shleimah, an encyclopedic project begun in 1927 that assembled Talmudic and Midrashic sources verse by verse alongside the biblical text, growing across dozens of volumes. He also compiled the Haggadah Shleimah and guided the Torah journal Noam. In HaTekufah HaGedolah (1969) he argued that the return to the Land of Israel marked the beginning of the redemption. He received the Israel Prize in rabbinic literature in 1963.
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WarsawCongress Poland
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Warsaw, on the Vistula, has been Poland's capital since Sigismund III moved the royal court there from Kraków in 1596. A predominantly Catholic city, it became a diocese in 1798 and an archdiocese in 1818. In the nineteenth century its Jewish community grew into the largest in Europe, and the city became a leading centre of Hebrew and Yiddish publishing and of Hasidic and rabbinic life; before the Second World War Jews were about 30 percent of the population. Under German occupation they were confined to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, and most were deported to Treblinka in 1942; the ghetto uprising began on 19 April 1943. The city was largely razed after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and later rebuilt.
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Yaʻaḳov Daṿid Ṿinṭrob, Chaim Brisker, Hillel Zeitlin, Chaim Heller, Moshe Soloveichik, Menachem Ziemba
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Yaʻaḳov Daṿid Ṿinṭrob, Chaim Brisker, Minhat Yehuda, Shimon Shkop, Dov Berish Elefant, Zelig Reuven Bangis, Imrei Emes, Solomon Klonitzky-Kline, Isser Zalman Meltzer, Yaakov Chaim Sofer (Kaf HaChaim), Hillel Zeitlin, Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Louis Ginzberg, Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Martin Buber
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Arba’as HaRoim
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Torah Sheleimah
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HaTekufah HaGedolah
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