- (having both fins and scales). A
shochet (שוחט, "slaughterer",
plural shochtim) is a
person who
performs shechita. To
become a shochet, one must study...
- that
consisted of
seven Rabbis that
regulated the over 3,500
practicing shochtim in
Poland and
Lithuania prior to the Holocaust. Today,
Vaads still exist...
- butcher's knives,
resulted in
portions of the
religious personnel (e.g.,
shochtim and dayanim)
becoming hostile toward him.
Through their frequent complaints...
-
Joseph Ottolenghe (c. 1711–1775) was an Italian-British-American catechist, manufacturer, politician, and slaveholder. Born in Casale, Italy, to a Jewish...
-
through activities involving rabbis,
Torah schools for children, yeshivot,
shochtim,
senior Torah-instructors and the
opening of mikva'ot; he
established a...
- close".
Rabbi Zweigenhaft's father,
grandfather and great-grandfather were
shochtim. As a
young boy
Zweigenhaft had been
privy to his family's
masorah (transmission...
-
Solomon Etting (28 July 1764 – 6
August 1847) was a
Jewish merchant and
politician in Baltimore, Maryland.
Before moving to
Baltimore in 1791,
Etting lived...
- Vaad
Roshei Hashochtim of
Poland and
Lithuania (Council of
Leaders of the
Shochtim of
Poland and Lithuania) (He: ועד ראשי השוחטים דמדינת פולין וליטא) was...
-
Jewish cemetery. The last
known rabbi was
Samuel Herman,
recorded in 1851.
Shochtim are also
recorded as
present in the town
until as late as 1872. The synagogue...
-
Israel ben
Eliezer (c. 1700 –1760),
known as the Baal Shem Tov (/ˌbɑːl ˈʃɛm ˌtʊv, ˌtʊf/; Hebrew: בעל שם טוב) or
BeShT (בעש"ט), was a
Jewish mystic and...
