Michel Jehuda Lefkowitz
Michel Jehuda Lefkowitz (born 1913 in Waloschyn ; died June 27, 2011 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbi of the Lithuanian direction. He was the head of the school department of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bne Brak and a member of the rabbinical council of the ultra-Orthodox political party Degel HaTorah .
Life
Lefkowitz came from the Lithuanian Wolozin , then part of Russia, now part of Belarus . He was taught first by his father and then attended the Ramailes Yeshiva in Vilnius , where he studied under Schlomo Heiman, whose writings he later edited.
In 1936 Lefkowitz emigrated to Palestine and studied at the Yeshiva Chevron in Jerusalem. He then became head of the school department of the yeshiva Ponevezh, one of the leading Lithuanian yeshivot in Israel, where he taught for over fifty years.
Lefkowitz was one of the Israeli rabbis who gave the uprisings in the Arab world of late 2010 / early 2011 a religious Jewish interpretation, as did the forest fires in Israel in December 2010: “First God punished Israel with a fire and a country punished itself feels big and powerful, suddenly needed help from all over the world. ... As they [the political leaders of Israel and its allies] continued to believe they were wise and omniscient, God disrupted the nations. And so they [the political leaders] are again scared because they couldn't foresee these things and don't know what to do. God laughs at them and waits for them to understand his message and become wiser. "
Lefkowitz died in Jerusalem at the age of 97 and was buried in Bne Brak . Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attended his funeral.
Web links
- Pictures of the funeral of Michel Jehuda Lefkowitz
- Ponevezh, Yeshiva of . The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (English)
- Guide to the Ponevez Yeshiva Collection . Yeshiva University
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hagaon R 'Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz niftar (English) . In: The Jerusalem Life , June 27, 2011. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011 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. . Retrieved July 7, 2011.
- ↑ Kobi Nahshoni: 'Arab unrest signals Messiah's coming' (English) . In: ynetnews , February 23, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4088319,00.html
- ↑ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145248
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lefkowitz, Michel Jehuda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli Charedian rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valoshyn |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 2011 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |