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Rav Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk |
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(1730-1788). One of the great Polish Torah leaders, he was a student of the Maggid of Mezeritch, Rabbi Dov Ber. He was the leader of Chassidus in White Russia and Lithuania from 1773. He stood at the head of the immigration to Israel in 1777, and settled
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Rav Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi, the Chacham Tzvi |
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(1660-1718); learned in Salinka at 14 years of age under Rav Eliyahu Covo; married the daughter of the Av Beis Din of Altuna-Hamburg- Wandsbeck (AHU) in 1689, and succeeded him in 1705; became Azhkenazi Rav of Amsterdam in 1710; went to Temishlev, Poland in 1714; then to Lemberg (Lvov); father of Rav Yaakov Emden.
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(5466/1706). One of the Rabbis of Tunisia, he authored “Yismach Moshe.”
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Rav Yitzchak Chazan |
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(1990). He was a member of the Higher Beit Din of Israel, and authored “Yechaveh Daat.”
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Rav Yissachar Chachmon HaDayan |
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One of the Mishnaic sages, of Rabbi Akiva’s time.
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Rav Avrohom of Slonim, the Beit Avraham |
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(1884 -1933), grandson of the founder of Slonimer Chasidus, the Chesed L’Avraham. He founded a great center of Slonimer Chassidim in Baranowitch in 1916, and the Yeshivah Toras Chesed in 1918. He visited Eretz Yisrael in 1929 and 1933, and passed away soon afterwards.
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Rav Yosef HaLevy Migash |
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(4901/1141). Known as the Ri M’Gash, he was the Rav of the Rambam’s father, and the Rambam considered him his Rav.
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(5460/1700). The author of “Yesod Yosef.”
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