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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 Eliyahu was born in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, the son of Iraqi Jewish rabbi Salman Eliyahu, a Jerusalem Kabbalist, and his wife Mazal, who was a sister of Yehuda Tzadka. [2] The family surname was Hebraicised from Elias. [ 3 ]
Dangoor was the Chief Rabbi of Rangoon, Burma from 1893 or 1894, but had to return to Baghdad in 1895 due to ill health. [1] [2] In 1904, Dangoor opened the first printing press in Baghdad, which printed Arabic textbooks as well as books in Hebrew. [3] [4] Dangoor was the author of several books and commentaries on the Torah. [2]
In the past, sick people were brought into the caveren below the synagogue and left there alone at night in the hope that Elisha's spirit would exercise a healing influence over them. [15] According to an extract from the Syrian cadastre of the Djobar district, its east side is 17.3 m (57 ft) long, itst side 15.7 m (52 ft) and the building 12. ...
His father, Eliahou Dangoor (1883–1976), was the world's largest printer of Arabic books, [2] and his grandfather Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor was the Chief Rabbi of Baghdad. [ 3 ] In the 1930s, Dangoor made the five-day journey from Baghdad to London, at the age of 17, in order to enroll in an engineering degree at the University of London . [ 4 ]
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.
Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.