Mishneh Halachot
Bronx (New York City) · 1960
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Menashe Klein
Menashe Klein
Also known as The Mishneh Halachot
1923 CE–2011 CE · Modern · Orlova (near Ungvar)
R. Menashe Klein (1923–2011), the Ungvarer Rav, was the leading posek for Hungarian chassidic communities in Brooklyn and beyond. A Holocaust survivor from Ungvar, he built communities in Brooklyn's Boro Park and Williamsburg.
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Stop 1 of 81924Born
Orlova (near Ungvar)
What they did here
His father, Rabbi Eliezer Zev Klein, held the local rabbinate in Orlova, a town beside Ungvar in the Subcarpathian corner of Czechoslovakia that later passed to Ukraine. It was here, in 1924, that he was born.
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Menashe Klein’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
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In the same tradition
Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal, Yoel Teitelbaum, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Yaakov Kamenetsky, Yitzhak Kaduri, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Nechama Leibowitz, Dovid Lifshitz, Eliezer Berkovits, Yisrael Zev Gustman, Avigdor Miller, Shemesh u-Magen, Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Yehuda Tzadka, Netivot Shalom
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Menashe Klein’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Works(2)
Mishneh Halachotמשנה הלכות
New York · 1959
Seventeen-volume responsa work, one of the largest of the late twentieth century. Treats questions arising in Hungarian chassidic communities in postwar America.
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Related figuresRYosef Shalom ElyashivYYoel TeitelbaumSuggested by shared subject matter, not a documented teaching relationship.