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Meir Chadash
Meir Chadash
1898 CE–1989 CE · Acharonim · Paritch
Rabbi Meir Chadash (also transliterated Chodosh) taught mussar — the Jewish ethical and self-refinement tradition — within the Lithuanian yeshiva world. Born in 1898 in Paritch, in present-day Belarus, he studied first in Shklov and then at the Slabodka yeshiva, where he became a leading student of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, known as the Alter of Slabodka. He accompanied the yeshiva's new Hebron branch to the Land of Israel in the mid-1920s. When the Alter died in 1927, he took up the post of mashgiach — the staff member responsible for students' character and religious growth — and filled it for over fifty years, including after the yeshiva moved to Jerusalem in the wake of the 1929 Hebron riots, which he lived through. He died in 1989, and students afterward compiled his recorded talks and correspondence.
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Alter of Slabodka, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Yehuda Leib Chasman, Yechezkel Sarna, Aharon Kotler, Saul Lieberman, Yitzhak Kaduri, Yitzchak Weiss, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Nechama Leibowitz, Yitzchak Hutner, Eliezer Berkovits, Shemesh u-Magen, Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Yehuda Tzadka, Netivot Shalom
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