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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 .
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]
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 ...
Shmuel Eliyahu (Hebrew: שמואל אליהו; born 29 November 1956) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi. He is the Chief Rabbi of Safed and a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council . Some of Eliyahu's statements regarding Arabs and Palestinians have been construed as being discriminatory in nature.
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 ...
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 ]
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. ...
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.