Sefer HaMitzvot LaRambam (critical edition)
Berlin · 1914
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Chaim Heller
Chaim Heller
1879 CE–1960 CE · Acharonim · Bialystok
Rabbi Chaim Heller (1879-1960) was a Talmudist and textual scholar known for bringing philological method to both rabbinic and biblical study. Born in Białystok and raised in Warsaw, where his early Talmudic talent earned him the nickname "the Illui of Warsaw," he studied largely on his own and completed a doctorate at the University of Würzburg in 1910. Chosen as rabbi of Łomża, he soon left the pulpit for scholarship, and in 1922 he founded an academy of advanced Jewish study in Berlin. The rise of Nazism led him to settle in New York in 1937, where he taught at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. His works include a critical edition of Maimonides' Sefer HaMitzvot, the halakhic studies LeChikrei Halachot, and comparative research on the Samaritan Pentateuch, Peshitta, and Septuagint. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik was among his students.
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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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LeChikrei Halachos
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Critical Edition of Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvos
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