Schlomo Salman Auerbach
Schlomo Salman Auerbach ( Shlomo Zalman Auerbach , Yiddish אויערבאך Oyerbach , born July 20, 1910 in Jerusalem ; died February 19, 1995 in Jerusalem) was a famous rabbi , Posek and head of the Yeshiva Kol Torah in Israel .
Schlomo Salman Auerbach was the most sought-after decisor of his time, respected by all groups of orthodoxy . Over 200,000 people attended his funeral in 1995.
Life
Auerbach came from an important family of scholars of Orthodox Judaism, he was born as the eldest son of Rabbis Chajim Leib Auerbach and Tzvivya Auerbach.
He studied at the Eitz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, then at the Kollel Kerem Zion under Rabbi Zwi Pesach Frank . At the age of eleven he is said to have known the treatise Kiddushin by heart. His first major published work, which was highly praised by Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski , was titled Me'orei Esh , the first publication on the subject of the use of electricity on Shabbat .
The rabbi had seven sons and an unknown number of daughters; several of his sons became rabbinical authorities of ultra-Orthodox Judaism , such as his eldest son Shmuel Auerbach or Azriel Auerbach .
Trivia
The settlement of Ramat Shlomo ( Hebrew רמת שלמה) in the north of Jerusalem is named after Auerbach.
literature
- Hanoch Teller, And From Jerusalem, his Word: Stories and Insights of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach , Feldheim Publishers, New York 1995, ISBN 1-881939-05-7 ( Google Books, limited preview ).
- Schlomo Salman Auerbach . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1995 ( online - obituary).
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Jerusalem Municipality, Ramat Shlomo ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 27, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auerbach, Schlomo Salman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Auerbach, Shlomo Zalman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jerusalem |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1995 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |