Ohr Yahel
Jerusalem · 1935
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Yehuda Leib Chasman
Yehuda Leib Chasman
Also known as The Ohr Yahel; Mashgiach of Chevron
1869 CE–1935 CE · Acharonim · Kelm (Kelme)
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Chasman (1869–1935) was a leading figure of the Mussar movement and one of its most influential mashgichim (spiritual supervisors). Trained in Kelm under the Alter of Kelm and in Volozhin under the Netziv and Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, he served as mashgiach in Telz, founded his own yeshiva in Shtutshin, and finally guided the Slabodka (Chevron) Yeshiva in Hebron and Jerusalem. His teachings were collected in Ohr Yahel.
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Stop 1 of 61885–1893Studying
Kelm (Kelme)Lithuania (Mussar)
What they did here
At Kelm (Kelme), pursued mussar studies under the town's Alter, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv.
About Kelm (Kelme)
Kelm (Lithuanian Kelmė), a small town in Samogitia in northwestern Lithuania, was a central seat of the Mussar movement. Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv (the Alter of Kelm), a foremost disciple of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, was born there and founded the Kelm Talmud Torah (around 1862), a select institution focused on character refinement through intensive Mussar study that trained many leaders of the Lithuanian yeshiva world.
In Kelm (Kelme) at the same time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Yehuda Leib Chasman’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Alter of Kelm, Eliezer Gordon, Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Minhat Yehuda, Shimon Shkop, Marcheshes, Rav Kook, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Imrei Emes, Isser Zalman Meltzer, Yaakov Chaim Sofer (Kaf HaChaim), Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Elchonon Wasserman, Jacob Nachum Epstein
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Yehuda Leib Chasman’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Related figuresנצNetzivRChaim BriskerAAlter of KelmRShalom SchwadronSuggested by shared subject matter, not a documented teaching relationship.