Rishon LeTzion (2003-2013)
1948 CE · Modern · Casablanca
R. Shlomo Moshe Amar (b. 1948) led Israel's Sephardi Jews as their Chief Rabbi (the office known as Rishon LeTzion) from 2003 to 2013, and has served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem since 2014. Born in Casablanca to a Moroccan-rabbinic family and brought to Israel as a teenager, he studied in the Sephardic yeshiva network and rose to become a senior religious-court judge (dayan) in the late 20th century.
His written legal rulings, collected as the multi-volume Shma Shlomo responsa, are widely cited. He is especially known for his decisions on agunot (women trapped in marriages by husbands who refuse a divorce), on conversion, and on preserving Sephardic custom (minhag). A close protégé of R. Ovadia Yosef and one of his senior students, R. Amar carries forward Ovadia's school of thought into the next generation.
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CasablancaקזבלנקהMorocco — Atlantic metropolis
What they did here
Born in Casablanca to the Moroccan-rabbinic Amar family.
About Casablanca
Modern Casablanca's Jewish community swelled from a few hundred in 1900 to over 80,000 by 1950 — Morocco's largest. R. Shalom Mashash served as chief rabbi here before being called to Jerusalem in 1978.
In Casablanca at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Rishon LeTzion (2003-2013)’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Hanania-Habib Azoulay, Martin Buber, Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Zalman Sorotzkin, Aryeh Levin, Ezra Attia, Yechezkel Abramsky, Isser Yehuda Unterman, Shlomo Yosef Zevin, Yehezkel Kaufmann, Yechezkel Sarna, Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Menachem Mendel Kasher, Yisrael Alter, Gershom Scholem, Saul Lieberman, Meir Chadash
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Rishon LeTzion (2003-2013)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- R. Gershon Edelstein· 1923 CE–2023 CE
- Rabbi Nota Tzvi Greenblatt· 1925 CE–2022 CE
- R. Norman (Nachum) Lamm· 1927 CE–2020 CE
- Chaim Kanievsky (Bnei Brak)· 1928 CE–2022 CE
- David Hartman· 1931 CE–2013 CE
- Aharon Lichtenstein (Yeshivat Har Etzion)· 1933 CE–2015 CE
- Esther Jungreis· 1936 CE–2016 CE
- Adin Steinsaltz· 1937 CE–2020 CE
- Yisrael Meir Lau· 1937 CE–
- Yisroel Belsky· 1938 CE–2016 CE
- R. Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron· 1941 CE–2020 CE
- R. Hershel Schachter (YU/RIETS)· 1941 CE–
- R. Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Mir)· 1943 CE–2011 CE
- Avraham (Avi) Weiss· 1944 CE–
- Chana Henkin· 1944 CE–
- Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus· 1944 CE–2001 CE
- R. Yaakov Moshe Hillel· 1945 CE–
- Moshe Idel· 1947 CE–
- R. Aaron Teitelbaum (Satmar — Aroni faction)· 1947 CE–
- R. Mordechai Willig (YU/RIETS)· 1947 CE–
- Jonathan Henry Sacks (UK Chief Rabbi)· 1948 CE–2020 CE
- R. Zalman Leib Teitelbaum (Satmar — Zali faction)· 1951 CE–
- Yitzchak Yosef· 1952 CE–
- R. Asher Weiss (Minchas Asher)· 1953 CE–
Buddhist world
Christian world
Scientists
Hindu world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Rulers world
- Bill Clinton· 1946 CE–
- George W. Bush· 1946 CE–
- Donald Trump· 1946 CE–
- Joe Biden· 1942 CE–
- Mikhail Gorbachev· 1931 CE–2022 CE
- Boris Yeltsin· 1931 CE–2007 CE
- Nelson Mandela· 1918 CE–2013 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
Works
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