Pischei Teshuva
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Avraham Eisenstadt
Avraham Eisenstadt
1812 CE–1868 CE · Acharonim · Bialystok
Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Hirsch Eisenstadt (1812-1868) was a halachic scholar of the Russian Empire, born in Bialystok to Rabbi Yaakov Eisenstadt and counted among the descendants of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt, author of the responsa Panim Me'irot. He served for a time as a rabbinical judge in Grodno, then accepted the rabbinate of Berestovitsa (Bristovitz) in the Grodno district in 1836, and later led the community of Utena (Utyan) in the Kovno region. He is remembered chiefly for Pischei Teshuvah, a reference work that gathers and organizes the rulings and responsa of later authorities and keys them to the relevant passages of the Shulchan Aruch, arranged to sit alongside that code. To it he appended his own novellae under the title Nachalat Tzvi. Having traveled to Konigsberg for medical care, he died there in 1868. The work is still widely consulted in the study of halacha.
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BialystokביאליסטוקNortheast Poland — Litvish-Hasidic frontier
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Bialystok was a major Lithuanian-Polish Jewish center on the seam between Litvish and Hasidic worlds. R. Chaim Halberstam (Sanz dynasty) and R. Chaim Soloveitchik both had students teaching here. The city was 70% Jewish in 1900 (41,000 Jews); the community was annihilated in the Bialystok Ghetto uprising of August 1943.
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