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Books LLC : Orthodox Rabbis: Mnachem Risikoff, Umberto Cassuto, Natan Slifkin, Joseph Carlebach, Zvi Yosef Resnick, Moshe Shatzkes, Zusha of Hanipol
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Title: Orthodox Rabbis: Mnachem Risikoff, Umberto Cassuto, Natan Slifkin, Joseph Carlebach, Zvi Yosef Resnick, Moshe Shatzkes, Zusha of Hanipol
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 140
Date: 2010-09-15
ISBN: 1157261035
Publisher: Books LLC
Weight: 0.4 pounds
Size: 5.98 x 8.98 x 0.39 inches
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Chapters: Mnachem Risikoff, Umberto Cassuto, Natan Slifkin, Joseph Carlebach, Zvi Yosef Resnick, Moshe Shatzkes, Zusha of Hanipol, Shlomo Moussaieff, Yitzchok Isaac Krasilschikov, Milton Polin, Rapoport-Bick, Moshe Leib Lilienblum, Ephraim Einhorn, Bernard Revel, Selig Starr, Rashi Shapiro, Yosef Burg, Joseph Saul Nathanson, David Lapin, Mordechai Breuer, Nachman Bulman, Simcha Liberman, Haim Isaac Carigal, Marcus Lehmann, Solomon Breuer, Shraga Simmons, Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz, Zelig Pliskin, Mendel Zaks, Elazar Hurvitz, Joseph Perles, Dovid Povarsky, Jechiel Perr, Aaron Karfunkel, Iggud Harabbonim, Daniel Sinclair, Tovia Singer, David I. Sheinkopf, Elio Toaff, Hillel Rivlin, Levi Pante. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mnachem (Mendel) HaKohen Risikoff (18661960), was an orthodox rabbi in Russia and the United States, and a prolific author of scholarly works, written in Hebrew. Risikoff used a highly stylized and symbolic pen-name, , made up of the Hebrew letters of his first name, the Hebrew word for Lord, and the Tetragrammaton, one of Judaism's terms for God. It is not clear whether this pen name was used in conversation, or whether it was used only in his writings. Risikoff, the son of well-known Rosh yeshiva (Talmudic Academy Dean) Rabbi Zvi Yosef Resnick, was born in Zhetel, later studying in yeshivot, academies, in Volozhin and Vilna, where he received semikhah (rabbinic ordination) at the age of 17 from a number of well-known rabbis: Yosef Shlupfer, from Slonim; Avraham DovBer HaKohen Shapira, from Riga; Shlomo HaKohen, author of Binyan Shlomo, from Vilna;, Katriel Nathan, Av Beit Din of Augustów; and Eliyahu Adran, of Grajewo; with other rabbis later adding their ordination as well. Risikoff as a young manIn 1895, after ser...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25981530
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