ChaimElazarSpira (December 17, 1868 – May 13, 1937) was a rebbe of the Hasidic Munkacs dynasty. Spira was born in Strzyżów, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria...
them the rabbi of Munkács, ChaimElazarSpira (d. 1937), who was the fiercest opponent of Zionism among Hasidic rabbis. Spira saw Zionism as a denial of...
Orthodox Jews, and Zionists. The town is most noted for its Chief Rabbi ChaimElazarSpira who led the community until his death in 1937. By 1851, Munkács supported...
his mother's first cousin, Rabbi ChaimElazarSpira, the Munkacser dynasty's rebbe, also known as the 'Minchas Elazar'. This set him on course to succeed...
leading authority of Hungarian extremists in the Interwar period, ChaimElazarSpira of Mukačevo, regarded the Polish/German ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel...
neighborhood in Jerusalem. Established in 1928 by the Munkacser Rebbe, Rabbi ChaimElazarSpira, Batei Munkacs is now part of the Nachlaot neighborhood. Batei Munkacs...
Rabbi of Munkacs following the death of his father-in-law Chief Rabbi ChaimElazarSpira in 1937 until the Nazis occupied Munkacs in 1944. During World War...
diaspora, and many rumors spread. The late Grand Rabbi of Munkatch, ChaimElazarSpira, was aware of the change. He speculated that it was the same problem...
contact with Zionists, including the religious Mizrachim, and supported ChaimElazarSpira in his opposition to Agudath Israel. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
Notable feuds between "courts" include the 1926–1934 strife after ChaimElazarSpira of Munkatch cursed the deceased Yissachar Dov Rokeach I of Belz; the...
accomplishment, and also to motivate and inspire others to do the same. ChaimElazarSpira, the Munkacser Rebbe", observed in his work Sha'ar Yissachar that...
of the Western Wall was recounted by Rabbi ChaimElazarSpira of Munkatch (d. 1937) and involved Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar (d. 1743) who instructed a destitute...
rabbinic authorities, including Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes and Rabbi ChaimElazarSpira, for plagiarization and falsifying sources. It has been demonstrated...
Shortly before the Saba Kadisha's death, the Munkatcher Rebbe, Rabbi ChaimElazarSpira, of Hungary made a special trip to meet him. Theirs was considered...
Dovid Schlussel, who was a dayan in the rabbinical court of Rabbi ChaimElazarSpira in Munkacs. Rabbi Hershkowitz played an active role in judging cases...
performed in a single Friday night). "Beeros HaMayim", led by Rabbi ChaimElazar Wassertheil, Rimanover Rebbe (a descendant of Rebbe Menachem Mendel)...
in 1920 and had four children (Pesach Chaim, Fay Gittel, Shifra, and David) before leaving Europe. Pesach Chaim died in Europe, and another son, Reuven...
"Sar Sholom" (1781-1855), from which Belz Hasidism derives, Tzvi Elimelech Spira (1783-1841), from which Dinov and Munkacs Hasidism derive. That being said...