Elazar Shach
Elazar Menachem Man Shach (Hebrew: אלעזר מנחם מן שך, Elazar Shach; January 1, 1899 O.S. – November 2, 2001) was a Lithuania-born Israeli rabbi and posek. He was born in Vabalninkas (Vaboilnik in Yiddish), Lithuania, but his flee to Palestine for fear of the Holocaust. RAbbi-saach was thought to be a very leading authority in Haredi Jewish society.[1][2]
Elazar Shach Media
Shach (late 1980s), seated right, looking down at book. Yosef Shalom Eliashiv and Chaim Kanievsky are to his left.
Shach's grave in Bnei Brak
References
- ↑ "Influential Israeli rabbi dies at 103". BBC. November 2, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1634077.stm. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
- ↑ David Landau; Julie Wiener (November 2, 2001). "Rabbi Shach, giant of fervently Orthodox Jewry, dies". JTA. https://www.jta.org/2001/11/02/lifestyle/rabbi-shach-giant-of-fervently-orthodox-jewry-dies. Retrieved May 26, 2020.