Minchat Yitzchakמנחת יצחק
Manchester · 1955
Ten-volume responsa work treating Shulchan Aruch in depth, with particular attention to chassidic minhag and Hungarian halachic tradition.
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Yitzchak Weiss
Yitzchak Weiss
Also known as The Minchat Yitzchak
1902 CE–1989 CE · Modern · Jerusalem
R. Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss (1902–1989), the Minchat Yitzchak, was Av Beit Din of Manchester and later of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem. Born in Hungary, he was a leading posek for chassidic and Hungarian-tradition communities worldwide.
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Stop 1 of 11969–1989Lived
JerusalemירושליםJudea
What they did here
Led the Edah HaChareidis rabbinical court as its Av Beit Din, and as a leading posek issued responsa for diaspora communities.
Jerusalem in this era
In the decades after Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, Jerusalem underwent seismic transformation under the government of the State of Israel, with the Old City and its Jewish Quarter newly under Israeli control following centuries of Jordanian rule. The Jewish community of Jerusalem, long a minority under Ottoman and then British and Jordanian administration, suddenly found itself at the heart of a reclaimed Jewish state, with the Western Wall accessible once more and the quarter itself undergoing rapid reconstruction and repopulation. The Minchat Yitzchak, a revered halakhic authority and posek, lived through this extraordinary reversal: a city that had been closed to Jews was reopened, yeshivas and institutions flourished anew, and the ancient stones of the Jewish Quarter were literally rebuilt. His responsa from these years grapple with the practical and spiritual questions of a restored Jewish Jerusalem—a community no longer waiting, but building.
About Jerusalem
Jerusalem, in the Judean hills, is a sacred city for Jews, Christians and Muslims. In the Hebrew Bible it is King David's capital and the site of Solomon's Temple; the First Temple was destroyed by Babylon in 586 BCE and the Second Temple, rebuilt from about 516 BCE, by Rome in 70 CE. Christians revere it as the place of Jesus's crucifixion and, in their faith, his resurrection; in Islamic tradition it is the destination of the Prophet Muhammad's Night Journey and the first direction of prayer, marked by the Dome of the Rock (691-92) and al-Aqsa Mosque. It was ruled in turn by Rome and Byzantium, by Muslim dynasties from 638, by Crusaders (1099-1187), Ayyubids, Mamluks and Ottomans (1517-1917), and by Britain. Divided between Israel and Jordan from 1948 to 1967, it has since been under Israeli control. Israel regards the city as its capital; Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state; most countries do not recognize sovereignty over the whole city.
In Jerusalem at the same time
Aryeh Levin, Ezra Attia, Yechezkel Abramsky, Isser Yehuda Unterman, Shlomo Yosef Zevin, Yechezkel Sarna
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Yitzchak Weiss’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Aryeh Levin, Ezra Attia, Yechezkel Abramsky, Isser Yehuda Unterman, Shlomo Yosef Zevin, Yechezkel Sarna, Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Menachem Mendel Kasher, Yisrael Alter, Gershom Scholem, Saul Lieberman, Meir Chadash, Yitzhak Kaduri, Salman Mutzafi, Yaakov Mutzafi, Chaim Shmuelevitz, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Nechama Leibowitz
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