Rabbi Aryeh Leib Schochet ( he, אריה לייב שוחט) was a
Ukrainian
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rabbi
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who emigrated to the United States in 1906. He published a book on
Hasidic philosophy
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titled ''
Lekutim Yekarim''.
Biography
Aryeh Leib was born in
Balta, now in
Ukraine
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in 1845. His mother Tziporah was the daughter of Rabbi Yoseph Zev Wolf Segal of Balta, his father was Yaakov Nissan. He grew up in a town mostly occupied by
Chasidim of Rabbi Refoel of Bershad, though he was a student of
Rabbi Dovid Twersky of Tolna and Rabbi Yitzchok Yoel Rabinowitz of Kantikaziva.
In his book, he related how his uncle Reuven Wolf Segal took care of Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Abba Shapiro of
Slavuta, while he recuperated from being lashed 1,500 times by the Russian government. Avraham and his brother Pinchas Shapiro, both grandchildren of Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz, were the owners of the Slavuta printing house, which had been founded by their father,
Rabbi Moshe Shapiro. As was common, the text of published books had to be edited so that they had nothing negative about the government. The brothers were accused of not having the proper censorship license, their printing house was shut down, and they were sent to Siberia.
Aryeh Leib became rabbi of the Ukrainian town of
Vradiivka in
Mykolaiv Oblast
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, near the southern border of modern Ukraine.
Emigration
In August 1906, he emigrated to the United States with his son Abraham, after Abraham was drafted into the Russian army. He settled in the
Brownsville section of
Brooklyn
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,
New York. He published his book ''Lekutim Yekarim'' in 1926. The book included approbations of several contemporary New York rabbis including Rabbis Dovid Mordechai Twersky of Tolan and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Rabinowitz of Manestrich.
Aryeh Leib died in his Brooklyn home on Stone Avenue on December 19, 1928, and was buried in
Old Montefiore Cemetery
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in
Springfield Gardens, Queens
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.
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References
External links
* Tolner Rebbe's Webpag
* Kevarim of Tzadikim In North Americ
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1845 births
1928 deaths
Russian Hasidic rabbis
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
19th-century rabbis from the Russian Empire
20th-century Russian rabbis
Jewish American writers
American Hasidic rabbis
People from Mykolaiv Oblast