Zera Avraham
Warsaw · 1920
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Menachem Ziemba
Menachem Ziemba
1883 CE–1943 CE · Acharonim · Praga
Menachem Ziemba (1883-1943) was a Polish Talmudist and communal figure in Warsaw. Born in the city's Praga district, he lost his father, Elazar, in childhood and was raised by his grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Ziemba, within the world of Ger Hasidism, to which he remained attached throughout his life. He came to be known for a broad command of the Talmud and later rabbinic literature, which he expressed in works such as Totzaos Chaim, on the Sabbath laws of carrying; Zera Avraham, gathering his responsa and correspondence; and Otzar HaSifra and Otzar HaSifri on the halachic midrashim. In 1935 he joined the Warsaw rabbinate and served among the sages of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah. Confined to the Warsaw Ghetto, he supported organized resistance and declined offers of escape; he was killed by German forces in April 1943.
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Totzaos Chaim
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Otzar HaSifra
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Chiddushei HaGramaz
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Otzar HaSifrei
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