Elasar Menachem Chess

Grave of Rabbi Elasar Menachem Schach in Bnei Brak

Elasar Menachem Man Chess ( Hebrew אלעזר מנחם מן שך, also Elazar or Eleazar Menachem Shach / Leizer Shach / Eliezer Schach ; born on January 13, 1898 in Wabolnick , northern Lithuania ; died November 2, 2001 in Tel Aviv ) was a leading ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Israel , talmudic capacity, recognized and promoted by the Brisker Rav and by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. Schach wrote the commentary Avi Ezri on the Mishne Torah of Rambam and was Rosh- Yeshiva the Ponewiescher Yeshiva in Bnei Brak .

Elasar Schach was also the founder of the Degel haTora party. Rabbi Schach was extremely anti-Zionist and despised the cultural identity of secular Israelis, for example, in a 1990 speech, referred to secular kibbutz residents as rabbit and pig breeders who do not know what Yom Kippur is. He was also against democracy, which he called a cancerous tumor . He also criticized Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , called it a blatant attempt to provoke the international community , and called on all Haredim to stay away from these settlements.

Rabbi Schach was also an opponent of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson , the Rebbe of the Chabad- Lubavitch movement, whom he described as a heretic and his followers as followers of a false messiah . On many Jewish questions - halacha , religious and practical questions - Schneerson and Schach were of conflicting opinion.

Rabbi Schach had three children, all born in Kletsk in the 1920s: Miriam Raisel, Devorah and Ephraim. His wife, Rebbetzin Guttel Schach, died in 1969 of complications from diabetes .

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1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/03/world/rabbi-eliezer-schach-103-leader-of-orthodox-in-israel.html