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Chaim Elazar Spira (December 17, 1868 – May 13, 1937) was a
rebbe of the
Hasidic Munkacs dynasty.
Spira was born in Strzyżów,
Kingdom of
Galicia and Lodomeria...
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Members of the
congregation are
mainly referred to as
Munkacs Hasidim, or
Munkatcher Hasidim. It is
named after the
Hungarian town in
which it was established...
- Israel,
unlike his father-in-law. The
Munkatcher chasidim who had
survived the war
replaced him as
Munkatcher rebbe with his
third son
Moshe Leib Rabinovich...
- Bleich,
Yosef Goldman,
Nosson Scherman,
Moshe Leib
Rabinovich (current
Munkatcher Rebbe), and
Brooklyn Law
School Professor Aaron Twerski.
Dovid Schustal...
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Torah sage in his own right.
Shortly before the Saba Kadisha's death, the
Munkatcher Rebbe,
Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira, of
Hungary made a
special trip to meet...
- acc to Dotan, SCJ, and Benisch):
Joshua 3:5–7, 5:2-6:1, & 6:27 (the
Munkatcher Rebbe omitted verse 3:7), ('Hertz'
omitted Joshua 3:5-7) AF, R, and Perushim:...
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under his
father and
received semicha (rabbinic ordination) from the
Munkatcher Rebbe,
Chaim Elazar Shapiro. Soon after, he also
received semicha from...
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Gould (or Golde) was born in Munkatch, Hungary.
After the
death of the
Munkatcher Rebbe,
Yhoshua Leib
Gould moved with his
parents and four
sisters to Sighet...
