Dovid Shmidel
(also spelled Dovid Schmidel,
Polish
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*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
: Szmiedl; born 1934) of
Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak or Bene Beraq ( he, בְּנֵי בְּרַק ) is a city located on the central Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. A center of Haredi Judaism, Bnei Brak covers an are ...
is a
rabbi
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and the Chairman of
Asra Kadisha
Asra Kadisha (The Committee for the Preservation of Gravesites) is an organization for the preservation of Jewish cemeteries and gravesites throughout the world. The organization attempts to avoid desecration of ancient gravesites by preventing co ...
(the Committee for the Preservation of Gravesites). He was involved in struggles against excavations at various locations including at the
Tomb of Maimonides
According to Jewish tradition, the Tomb of Maimonides ( he, קבר הרמב"ם, Kever ha-Rambam) is in central Tiberias, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Maimonides died in Fustat, Egypt on 12 December 1204, where it is believed ...
in
Tiberias
Tiberias ( ; he, טְבֶרְיָה, ; ar, طبريا, Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 16th century one of Judaism's Fo ...
in 1956 and at
Israel's Highway 6;
as well as at the disputed tomb of
Antigonus II Mattathias in
East Jerusalem
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Jerusalem was envisaged as a separat ...
.
[ For an entire year, Shmidel was occupied with preserving the old Jewish cemetery in ]Egypt
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.[
Shmidel heads a kolel in ]Komemiyut
Komemiyut ( he, קוֹמְמִיּוּת, lit="sovereignty") is an Hasidic moshav in south-central Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah near Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . ...
for tens of married men who live in Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, Beit Shemesh
Beit Shemesh ( he, בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ ) is a city located approximately west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District, with a population of in .
History Tel Beit Shemesh
The small archaeological tell northeast of the modern city wa ...
, and other places, but they stay all week at the kolel and only go home for Shabbat
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. Shmidel delivers ''shiurim
Shiur (, , lit. ''amount'', pl. shiurim ) is a lecture on any Torah topic, such as Gemara, Mishnah, Halakha (Jewish law), Tanakh (Bible), etc.
History
The Hebrew term שיעור ("designated amount") came to refer to a portion of Ju ...
'' once or twice a week.[
He was born in ]Vienna
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[ on April 2, 1934. In 1939, at age 5, he moved with his family to ]Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
. He studied at the Slabodka yeshiva and later at Kollel Chazon Ish
Kollel Chazon Ish is a ''kollel'' (group of married Jewish men who study Torah) of rabbis on HaAri St 3, in Bnei Brak, Israel with a focus on Talmud study.
The Kollel was originally established by Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, who was known as ...
in Bnei Brak under Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel
Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel (1923–2004) was an influential rabbi in Israel's Haredi community. He was known for being one of the heads of Kollel Chazon Ish and was the leading authority of Jewish Law in the Chazon Ish neighborhood of Bnei Brak. He was ...
.[ He also studied under Rabbi ]Moshe Shmuel Shapiro
Moshe Shmuel Shapiro (1917–2006) was a Rosh Yeshiva and important rabbinic figure in Israel.
Early life and education
Moshe Shmuel Shapiro's father, Aryeh Shapira, was the son of Refael Shapiro of Volozhin and grandson of Naftali Zvi Yehuda B ...
.
Shmidel frequently consulted Rabbis Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz and Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
Yitzchok Zev Halevi Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יצחק זאב הלוי סולובייצ'יק), also known as Velvel Soloveitchik ("Zev" means "wolf" in Hebrew, and "Velvel" is the diminutive of "wolf" in Yiddish) or the Brisker Rov ("rabbi of/from B ...
. After the death of Rabbi Soloveitchik, Shmidel's mentor was Rabbi Soloveitchik's son, Rabbi Berel Soloveitchik
Berel (Yosef Dov) Soloveichik (1915–1981) was a rabbi and the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveichik and one of the leading Rosh Yeshivas ("heads of the yeshiva") of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem. He was a first cousin to Rabbi Joseph B. So ...
. Shmidel met Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum twice, once in 1965 and once two weeks before Teitelbaum's death in 1979.
References
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1934 births
Leaders of organizations
Living people
People from Bnei Brak
Rabbis from Vienna
Rabbis in Bnei Brak