Belarusian rabbi, rosh yeshiva, and posek (1870–1953)
Rabbi
Isser Zalman Meltzer איסר זלמן מלצר
Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer
Personal
Born
February 6, 1870
Mir, Minsk Governorate
Died
November 17, 1953(1953-11-17) (aged 83)
Jerusalem
Religion
Judaism
Spouse
Beila Hinda
Denomination
Orthodox
Position
Rosh Yeshiva
Yeshiva
Etz Chaim Yeshiva
Buried
Har HaMenuchot cemetery, Jerusalem
Isser Zalman Meltzer (Hebrew: איסר זלמן מלצר) (February 6, 1870 – November 17, 1953),[1] was a Jewish rabbi, rosh yeshiva and posek. He was known as the "Even HaEzel", after the title of his commentary on Rambam's Mishneh Torah.
IsserZalmanMeltzer (Hebrew: איסר זלמן מלצר) (February 6, 1870 – November 17, 1953), was a Jewish rabbi, rosh yeshiva and posek. He was known as the "Even...
American composer IsserZalmanMeltzer (1870–1953), Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi Jamie Meltzer, American film director Marlyn Meltzer (1922–2008), one of...
there were some who spoke out in his support. In a letter to Kook, IsserZalmanMeltzer and Moshe Mordechai Epstein greeted Kook with "Our honored friend...
his death. Shach received semikhah (rabbinical ordination) from IsserZalmanMeltzer, and served as chairman of Chinuch Atzmai and Va'ad HaYeshivos. In...
been a student of Rav IsserZalmanMeltzer in Europe and he eventually married Rav Meltzer's niece. Rav Amital married Rav Meltzer's granddaughter. The two...
Rabbi Aharon Kotler and his wife, Chana Perel, the daughter of Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer. Of his parents' children, only he and his sister, Sarah, survived...
(1876–1970), known as Reb Elyah, prominent in the Mussar Movement IsserZalmanMeltzer (1870–1953), renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz...
Sorotzkin was appointed vice chairman "(and after the death of IsserZalmanMeltzer served as its chairman ... until his death)." In 1953, the Chinuch...
Chayim ha-Kohen Rapoport, Yosef Dov Ber Soloveichik (1865–1874), and IsserZalmanMeltzer. The famous Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva was founded in Slutsk in 1883 by...
the Talmud Osip Mandelstam, poet librettist Abraham Mapu, novelist IsserZalmanMeltzer, rabbi Harvey Milk, gay politician in the U.S. Hermann Minkowski...
later sung in the Volozhin yeshiva and that was also sung by Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer after Yom Kippur. Some sources say that Rabbi Alexander Ziskind,...
studied in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and became a close student of Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer. He was later married to the daughter of Rabbi Zelig Wallis and they...
twenty-one. It received an "enthusiastic approbatio" from Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer, who had been his rebbe. A number of responsa regarding the application...
people. Feinstein was buried on Har HaMenuchot near his teacher, IsserZalmanMeltzer. Feinstein's students included: Nisson Alpert, rabbi of Agudath Israel...
Meshulam Dovid Halevi. A student of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer wrote his own commentary on the Rambam, titled Even HaEzel. Likely...
Slutzk, in what is today Belarus. That institution was led by Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer and by Rabbi Aaron Kotler, until it was forcibly closed by the Soviet...
Aharon Kotler. On his father's side, Kotler is the great-grandson of IsserZalmanMeltzer. Upon the death of his father in 1982, Kotler was named co-rosh yeshiva...
the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and was a student of the rosh yeshiva, Rav IsserZalmanMeltzer. Waldenberg wrote his first book, Dvar Eliezer, at age 19 in 1934...
Chaim Soloveitchik. There, he met his brother-in-law-to-be, Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer, and, in 1889, married Menucha Frank, the eldest "Frank sister"....
Finkel, and Moshe Mordechai Epstein. Kotler joined his father-in-law, IsserZalmanMeltzer, in running the yeshiva of Slutsk. After World War I, the yeshiva...
Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky in Slutsk; this during the period when Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer was the Rosh Yeshiva. There he gained fame as a talmudic prodigy...
Slutsk after his bar mitzvah to study under IsserZalmanMeltzer. When the Bolsheviks seized power Meltzer's yeshiva fled to Kletsk, Poland. During his...
of the Chazon Ish, Rabbi Dov Berish Widenfeld of Tshebin, Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer, and Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, he established the Zichron Meir...
Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik, and Rabbi IsserZalmanMeltzer. In 1956, he was appointed as a member of the Jerusalem religious...
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