1895 CE–1986 CE · Acharonim · New York
R. Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986) was the leading halachic decisor of American Orthodox Jewry for over four decades and one of the most respected poskim of the twentieth century. Born in Uzda (Belarus) and educated in the great Lithuanian yeshivot of Slutsk, he fled Soviet persecution in 1937 and settled on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he led Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim until his death.
His responsa shaped how Jews in the modern world live: he ruled on artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, the halachic definition of death, smoking, abortion, eruvin in American cities, and countless other questions that earlier poskim never faced. R. Moshe was renowned not only for his encyclopedic mastery of Talmud and codes but for his lev tov — kindness and humility toward every Jew who came to him for guidance.
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Born in Uzda, near Minsk, Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire), to Rabbi David Feinstein, the Chief Rabbi of Uzda.
New York · 1959
Eight-volume collection of nearly 2,000 responsa on every section of Shulchan Aruch, the defining halachic work of American Orthodoxy. Covers everything from kashrut and Shabbat to medical halacha and questions unique to modern life.
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New York · 1946
Multi-volume Talmudic novellae on most tractates of the Bavli, preserving his shiurim delivered over decades at Tiferes Yerushalayim.
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New York · 1988
Homiletic insights on the weekly Torah portion drawn from his sermons.
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