Yitzchak Kulitz

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Rav Jitzchak Kulitz (* 1922 in Alytus , Lithuania ; † July 24, 2003 / 25th Tammuz 5763 in Jerusalem ) was a great Jewish scholar and Charedic rabbi in Jerusalem and there also Av Beth Din , chief rabbi and later appointed to the Bet Din Hagadol.

He came to Eretz Israel in 1933 with his mother and seven siblings, where they settled in Jerusalem. His father, Rav David Nachum Kulitzky, had died when Yitzchak Kulitz was an infant. His teachers there included Isser Salman Melzer, Jecheskel Sarna and Chason Isch , who valued him very much and treated him almost like an adopted child.