Isaak Hakohen Halberstadt

Isaak Hakohen Halberstadt (born February 5, 1922 in Berlin ; † October 26, 2001 in Bnei Brak ) was an Israeli rabbi and scribe .

origin

Rabbi Isaak Felix Halberstadt was born on February 5, 1922 in Berlin. His father, Rabbi Michael Seew Halberstadt, was on the board of directors of the Orthodox Jewish community Adass Jisroel and from 1925 director of the community school. His mother, Rosa Halberstadt, née Biberfeld (1900–1943), worked in the Chewra Kadischa .

Life

Halberstadt attended elementary school from 1928 and from 1932 the secondary school of the Adass Jisroel community. After the Nazis " seizure of power " in 1933 and his father's death in 1939, the 16-year-old Halberstadt emigrated on board the HMT Dunera via England and Australia to what was then the British Mandate Palestine . Only years later did he find out about the fate of his mother, who had to do forced labor in Germany and was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and murdered on March 12, 1943 .

In Palestine, Halberstadt attended the Chewron yeshiva in Jerusalem from 1944 and later the Ponevesch yeshiva in Bnei Brak , as one of her first students. After his marriage to the daughter of the well-known rabbi Abraham Dov Weissfish in 1947, he studied at Kolel Chazon Isch before becoming co-founder and long-time director of the Wolf Seminary , an orthodox girls' school in Bnei Brak. Halberstadt also taught at girls' schools in Ashdod and Petach Tikwa . He was also the community leader and rabbi of the Ahawat Israel synagogue community for more than forty years, and he was the deputy mayor of Bnei Brak.

Throughout his life, Halberstadt followed the re-emerging Jewish life in Germany with particular interest and was also politically active. On his initiative, the Federation of Law-Abiding Jewish Congregations in Germany was re-established in 1999 , an association of orthodox exit congregations that existed in a similar form between 1919 and 1938.

Rabbi Halberstadt died on October 26, 2001 in Bnei Brak after a long illness. He found his final resting place in the Segula cemetery in Petach Tikwa.

Fonts

Rabbi Halberstadt was the author of several works, including standard works on the Jewish holidays :

• Schnei Sorei Kodesch - about the Passover festival. ( Hebr. שני שרי קדש), Bnei Brak 1977.
• Shoshanat Ha'amokim - Laws for the Jubilee Year . ( Hebrew חוברת שושנת העמקים - דיני שמיטה), Bnei Brak 1987.
• Shoshanat Ha'amokim - Laws to the Yamim Noraim . ( Hebrew חוברת שושנת העמקים - דיני הימים הנוראים), Bnei Brak 1989.
• Shoshanat Ha'amokim - Passover Laws. ( Hebrew חוברת שושנת העמקים - דיני פסח), Bnei Brak 1994.

Web links

• Website of the law-abiding Jewish state community of Brandenburg with a portrait of Halberstadt
• Obituary for Rabbi Halberstadt
• Interview with Rabbi Halberstadt

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1. ↑ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945 . Federal Archives, Koblenz 1986
2. ↑ Auerbach, HB The history of the “Federation of Law Abiding Jewish Communities in Germany” 1919-1938 . Tel Aviv 1972
3. ↑ The Jewish National & University Library Archive Link ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .