Leshem Shevo VeAchlama
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Ba'al HaLeshem
Ba'al HaLeshem
1841 CE–1926 CE · Acharonim · Šiauliai
Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv (1841-1926), remembered by the title of his major work as the Ba'al HaLeshem, was a Lithuanian Talmudic scholar and kabbalist. Born in Žagarė (Zhager) in northern Lithuania, he studied in the yeshivot of Minsk and Telz before settling in Shavel (Šiauliai), where he devoted himself to scholarship and writing rather than a communal office. There he composed his central work, Leshem Shevo VeAchlama, a four-part exposition of Kabbalah drawing on the Zohar, the Lurianic teachings of the Arizal, and the interpretive tradition of the Vilna Gaon. He also helped bring earlier kabbalistic works to print. In the early 1920s, with the assistance of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, he settled in Jerusalem, where he lived until his death in 1926. His grandson was Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.
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