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Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch (October 23, 1894 – January 22, 1955), often referred to as Rav Elya Meir Bloch, was a leading Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the United States in the years after World War II. He founded the Telshe Yeshiva [ 1 ] in Cleveland, Ohio together with Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz , and served as its first rosh yeshiva .
Mordechai Tzemach Eliyahu (Hebrew: מרדכי צמח אליהו, March 3, 1929 – June 7, 2010, on the Hebrew calendar: 21 Adar I, 5689 - 25 Sivan, 5770), [1] was an Israeli rabbi, posek, and spiritual leader. The son of a Jerusalem Kabbalist, in his youth, Eliyahu was active in Brit HaKanaim, a religious underground terrorist organization.
Relative hour (Hebrew singular: shaʿah zǝmanit / שעה זמנית; plural: shaʿot - zǝmaniyot / שעות זמניות), sometimes called halachic hour, temporal hour, seasonal hour and variable hour, is a term used in rabbinic Jewish law that assigns 12 hours to each day and 12 hours to each night, all throughout the year. A relative hour ...
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, [1] (Hebrew: ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman), also known as the Vilna Gaon [2] (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון Der Vilner Goen; Polish: Gaon z Wilna, Gaon Wileński; or Elijah of Vilna, or by his Hebrew acronym Gra ("Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu": "Our great teacher Elijah"; Sialiec, April 23, 1720 – Vilnius October 9, 1797 ...
The Rabbi Abitbol, was the pupil of Lion Ashkenazi, later was the student of Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, and the study mate of the Rabbi Yehezkel Bretler, the pupil of the Chazon Ish (Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz). At the request of the Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky, also named Steipler, the yeshiva was installed in France.
The Eliahou Hazan Synagogue was a former Jewish synagogue, that was located on the former Rue Belzoni, in Alexandria, Egypt. [1] The synagogue was named after Rabbi Eliahou Hazan, the chief rabbi of Alexandria from 1888 to 1908. [2] Established in 1937, [3] it closed in 1958. It, along with many other synagogues, was later sold by the Jewish ...
Howard Goldstein -- a crossdressing Orthodox Jewish man convicted of murdering his elderly roommate in 2004 -- was found dead in his apartment this week.
Rabbi Menachem Shmuel David Raichik (March 15, 1918 – February 4, 1998) was an Orthodox rabbi of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, and the pioneer of Chabad's activities in Los Angeles, California. Raichik served as a shaliach for the sixth and seventh Lubavitcher Rebbes.