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Avraham Mordechai Alter

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Avraham Mordechai Alter (Abraham Mordekhaj Alter, אברהם מרדכי אלתר; 25 December 1866 – 3 June 1948), also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he authored, was the fourth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1905 until his death in 1948. [1]

43 relations: Agudath Israel of America, Alexander Zusia Friedman, Alter (name), Aryeh Tzvi Frumer, Bais Yaakov, Bnei Re'em, Chanoch Gad Justman, Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin, Daf Yomi, David Werdyger, Góra Kalwaria, Ger (Hasidic dynasty), Haredi Judaism, Highway 40 (Israel), Jacob Meir Biderman, Kvitel, List of Polish rabbis, Mahane Yehuda (neighborhood), Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, Mekor Baruch, Menachem Mendel Kasher, Menachem Ziemba, Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Mordechai Rokeach, Nachman Bulman, Ohel (grave), Pabianice, Pinchas Kohn, Pinchas Menachem Alter, Pinchas Menachem Justman, Sarah Schenirer, Satmar (Hasidic dynasty), Sfas Emes Yeshiva, Shabsai Frankel, Simcha Bunim Alter, Vaad Rosh Hashochtim of Poland and Lithuania, World Agudath Israel, Yankel Talmud, Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Yisrael Alter, Yitzchak Meir Alter, Yitzhak-Meir Levin, Yonah Sztencl.

Agudath Israel of America

Agudath Israel of America (אגודת ישראל באמריקה) (sometimes called Agudah) is an Orthodox Jewish organization in the United States loosely affiliated with the international World Agudath Israel.

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Alexander Zusia Friedman

Alexander Zusia Friedman (אלכסנדר זושא פרידמן) (9 August 1897 – November 1943)Seidman, Hillel.

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Alter (name)

Alter is both a surname and a given name.

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Aryeh Tzvi Frumer

Aryeh Tzvi Frumer (אריה צבי פרומר; also spelled Fromer or Frommer; 18842 May 1943) was a leading Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva, and posek (halachic authority) in 20th-century Poland.

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Bais Yaakov

Bais Yaakov (בית יעקב also written Beit Yaakov, Beth Jacob, or Beis Yaakov—literally "House Jacob" in Hebrew) is a genericized name for Orthodox full-time, Jewish elementary and secondary schools throughout the world for Jewish girls from religious families.

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Bnei Re'em

Bnei Re'em (בְּנֵי רְאֵ"ם, lit. Sons of Re'em) is a religious moshav in central Israel.

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Chanoch Gad Justman

Chanoch (Heinich) Gad Justman or Henoch God or Yustman (1883–1942) The 2nd Piltzer Rebbe.

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Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin

Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin (1798 – 21 March 1870: "Jewish Civil Registry of Aleksandrow Lodzki", 1870, death (akt) #10, age 76, marital status widower, date March 21.) of Aleksander served as the rebbe of a community of thousands of Hasidim during the "interregnum" between the Chidushei HaRim of Ger and the Sfas Emes.

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Daf Yomi

Daf Yomi (דף יומי, Daf Yomi, "page of the day" or "daily folio") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud are covered in sequence.

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David Werdyger

David Werdyger (30 October 1919 – 2 April 2014) was a Polish-American Hasidic Jewish hazzan and solo singer who was considered one of the pioneers of 20th-century Jewish music.

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Góra Kalwaria

Góra Kalwaria is a town on the Vistula River in the Mazovian Voivodship, Poland, about southeast of Warsaw.

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Ger (Hasidic dynasty)

Ger, or Gur (or Gerrer when used as an adjective) is a Hasidic dynasty originating from Ger, the Yiddish name of Góra Kalwaria, a small town in Poland.

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Haredi Judaism

Haredi Judaism (חֲרֵדִי,; also spelled Charedi, plural Haredim or Charedim) is a broad spectrum of groups within Orthodox Judaism, all characterized by a rejection of modern secular culture.

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Highway 40 (Israel)

Highway 40 (כביש 40) is a north-south intercity road in Israel.

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Jacob Meir Biderman

Rabbi Jacob Meir Biderman (1870–1941) was the president of Kolel Polen (Poland)(קופת רבי מאיר בעל הנס - כולל פולין), in 1935 was appointed to the board of Rabbis of the Warsaw community, along with Rabbi Menachem Zemba and Rabbi Avraham Weinberg.

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Kvitel

Kvitel (קוויטל, "little note"; plural קוויטלך, kvitelach) refers to a practice developed by Hasidic Judaism in which a Hasid (a follower of Hasidic Judaism) writes a note with a petitionary prayer and gives it to a Rebbe (Hasidic Jewish leader) in order to receive the latter's blessing.

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List of Polish rabbis

The rise of Hasidic Judaism within Poland's borders and beyond has had a great influence on the rise of neo Haredi Judaism all over the world, with a continuous influence that has been felt from the inception of the Hasidic movements and its dynasties by famous rebbes until the present time.

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Mahane Yehuda (neighborhood)

Mahane Yehuda (מחנה יהודה, "Camp of Judah") is a historic neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Meir Simcha of Dvinsk

Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926) was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century.

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Mekor Baruch

Mekor Baruch (מקור ברוך, lit., "blessed source" or "fountain of blessing") also spelled Makor Baruch, is a neighborhood in Jerusalem.

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Menachem Mendel Kasher

Menachem Mendel Kasher (מנחם מנדל כשר; March 7, 1895 – November 3, 1983) was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and prolific author who authored an encyclopedic work on the Torah entitled Torah Sheleimah.

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Menachem Ziemba

Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (1883–1943) (מנחם זמבה) was a distinguished pre-World War II Rabbi, known as a Talmudic genius and prodigy.

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Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah

Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah ("Council of Torah Sages") is the supreme rabbinical policy-making council of several related prestigious Haredi intra-national organizations.

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Mordechai Rokeach

Mordechai Rokeach (1902 – 17 November 1949), also known as Mordechai of Bilgoray, was a scion of the Belzer Hasidic dynasty and the right-hand man to his half-brother, Rebbe Aharon of Belz, the fourth Belzer Rebbe.

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Nachman Bulman

Nachman Bulman (1925-2002) was an American rabbi associated with Orthodox Judaism.

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Ohel (grave)

Ohel (אוהל; plural: ohelim, literally, "tent") is a structure built around a Jewish grave as a sign of prominence of the deceased.

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Pabianice

Pabianice is a town in central Poland with 66,265 inhabitants (2016).

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Pinchas Kohn

Rb Dr Pinchas Kohn was the last rabbi of Ansbach, Germany.

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Pinchas Menachem Alter

Pinchas Menachem Alter (פינחס מנחם אלתר, June 9, 1926 – March 7, 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem (Hebrew: after the works he authored, was the seventh Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996.

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Pinchas Menachem Justman

Pinchas Menachem (Elazar) Justman or Yustman or Yostman (1848–1920) The Piltzer Rebbe or Pilcer Rebbe, also known by the title of his main work, the Siftei Tzadik or Sefsei Tzadik.

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Sarah Schenirer

Sarah Schenirer (also Soroh Shenirer) (July 15, 1883: "Jewish Civil Registry of Krakow", Town: Krakow, Date (Julian Calendar): 3 July (15 July on the Gregorian Calendar), 1883, Akta (record) #: 403, Record Type: birth, Surname: Schenirer, Given Name: Sara, Father: Zalel, Mother: Roza Lack (daughter of Abraham and Chaja) - March 1, 1935 (yartzeit 26 Adar I 5695)) was a pioneer of Jewish education for girls and began a change in the way women were perceived in Orthodox Judaism.

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Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)

Satmar (סאטמאר or) is a Hasidic group originating from the city of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary (now Satu Mare, Romania), where it was founded in 1905 by Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum.

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Sfas Emes Yeshiva

Sfas Emes Yeshiva (ישיבת שפת אמת) is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, serving the Gerrer Hasidic community.

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Shabsai Frankel

Rabbi Shabsai Frankel (August 13, 1909 – 2000 in Rosh Hashana) was a successful businessman, philanthropist, and publisher of Torah books.

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Simcha Bunim Alter

Simcha Bunim Alter (שמחה בונים אלתר; April 6, 1898 – August 6, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (Hebrew) after the works he authored, was the sixth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1977 until his passing.

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Vaad Rosh Hashochtim of Poland and Lithuania

Vaad Rosh Hashochtim of Poland and Lithuania (Council of Leaders of the Shochtim of Poland and Lithuania) (Hebrew: ועד ראשי השוחטים דמדינת פולין וליטא) was a council of seven Rabbis that oversaw Poland and Lithuania's 3,500 practicing shochtim prior to the Holocaust.

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World Agudath Israel

World Agudath Israel (אגודת ישראל), usually known as the Aguda, was established in the early twentieth century as the political arm of Ashkenazi Torah Judaism.

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Yankel Talmud

Yaakov Dov (Yankel) Talmud (18 December 1885 – October 1965)Bleich, Chanania.

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Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter

Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (Hebrew, 15 April 1847 – 11 January 1905), also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes (Ashkenazic Pronunciation) or Sefat Emet (Modern Hebrew), was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the Av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland (known in Yiddish as the town of Ger), and succeeded Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander as Rebbe of the Gerrer Hasidim.

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Yisrael Alter

Yisrael Alter, (Izrael Alter, Hebrew:; October 1895 – 20 February 1977), also known as the Beis Yisroel after the works he authored, was the fifth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1948 until 1977.

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Yitzchak Meir Alter

Yitzchak Meir Rotenberg-Alter (Icchak Meir Rothenberg Alter, יצחק מאיר אלתר, 1799 – 10 March 1866), was the first Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty, which he founded in the town of Góra Kalwaria (known as "Ger" in Yiddish), Poland.

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Yitzhak-Meir Levin

Rabbi Yitzhak-Meir Levin, (יצחק-מאיר לוין, Izaak Meir Lewin; 30 January 1893 – 7 August 1971) was an Haredi politician in Poland and Israel.

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Yonah Sztencl

Rabbi Yona Sztencl (Hebrew: יונה שטנצל, pronounced Shtentzel) (1904–1969) was a Jewish Orthodox Rabbi who founded the Mishnah Yomis and the Halacha Yomis.

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Redirects here:

Avrohom Mordechai Alter, Imrei Emes.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Mordechai_Alter

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