Avraham Mordechai dude

Avraham Mordechai Alter (אברהם מרדכי אלתר; born December 25, 1866 in Góra Kalwaria ; died June 3, 1948 in Jerusalem , Israel ), his acronym is Re'em ( Hebrew רְאֵ"ם). He is also known as Imrei Emes . He was the fourth Gerrer Rebbe to succeed his father Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter and is considered a well-known rabbi of Hasidism . Alter became one of the religious leaders of the Agudat Jisra'el party in Poland.

family

He was the grandson of Yitzchak Meir Alter (or Rothenberg, 1799–1866), the founder of the Ger group and known in Hebrew as the Chidushei HaRim , after his Torah work of the same title. Avraham Mordechai Alter was the fourth Gerrer Rebbe. His wife was the daughter of Noach Czarny, an important Gerrer Hasid in Biala . He had eight children with his first wife, Chaya Ruda Czarna. His eldest son, Rabbi Meir Alter (1883–1942), was a Torah scholar and entrepreneur who was murdered in Treblinka with his children and grandchildren. His second son, Rabbi Yitzchak Alter, died in Poland in 5695 (1934). In 1940 he was able to flee to Palestine with three of his sons .

After his death, his three sons continued the tradition worldwide:

Rabbi Yisrael Alter (1895–1977, fifth Gerrer Rebbe 1948–1977);
Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter (1898–1992, sixth Gerrer Rebbe 1977–1992);
and Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter (1926–1996, seventh Gerrer Rebbe 1992–1996).

photos

Avraham Mordechai Alter in Vienna .
Avraham Mordechai Alter and Chanoch Tzvi HaKohen Levin
Imrei Emes at a gathering of worshipers in the Hurva Synagogue , Jerusalem, in November 1942, after news of the murder of Polish Jews reached Palestine.
The graves of Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter ( Imrei Emes ), right, and those of his son, Chief Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter ( Pnei Menachem ), left, in the Sefas Emes Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

The Imrei Emes- Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, named after him .

Memorial plaque to AM Alter also Imrei Emes , on the yeshiva named after him in Bnei Brak .

Individual evidence

↑ Cmentarz żydowski in Górze Kalwarii - Jewish cemetery in Gora Kalwaria

literature

Paweł Fijałkowski: Old Abraham Mordechaj. In: Żydzi polscy. History niezwykłe. Warsaw 2010, pp. 7–9, ISBN 978-83-7427-392-3 (Polish).

Web links

Commons : Abraham Mordechai Alter - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Dude, Avraham Mordechai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dude, Abraham Mordecai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	fourth Gerrer Rebbe
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Góra Kalwaria
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1948
Place of death	Jerusalem , Israel

[1] Cmentarz żydowski in Górze Kalwarii - Jewish cemetery in Gora Kalwaria