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Meir Shapiro

Meir Shapiro

1887 CE–1933 CE · Acharonim · Shatz

Yehuda Meir Shapiro (1887–1933), often called the Lubliner Rav, was born in Shatz (Suceava) in the Bukovina region of Austria-Hungary. Following his 1906 marriage into a family in Tarnopol, he took up a rabbinic career that moved through several Galician and Polish communities: Glina from 1911, where he opened an early yeshiva; Sanok from 1920; and Piotrków Trybunalski from 1924, where his responsa collection Or HaMeir was printed in 1926. In 1931 he was appointed rabbi of Lublin. He is remembered above all for proposing the Daf Yomi, a program of studying one Talmud folio each day so the whole is completed over roughly seven and a half years, which he introduced at the 1923 World Congress of Agudath Israel in Vienna. He founded the Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin, opened in 1930, and served in the Polish Sejm. A further work, Imrei Daas, is also attributed to him.

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Ohr HaMeir

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Imrei Daas

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