Mordechai Dovid Alpert ( he, מרדכי דוד אלפרט; 1850 in
Slonim
Slonim ( be, Сло́нім, russian: Сло́ним, lt, Slanimas, lv, Sloņima, pl, Słonim, yi, סלאָנים, ''Slonim'') is a city in Grodno Region, Belarus, capital of the Slonimski rajon. It is located at the junction of the Ščar ...
– 1918 in Svislovich, near
Bobruysk) was born into the family of Rabbi Chaim Shabtai Alpert known as "Chaim Matmid" and who was a great-great-grandson of
Aryeh Leib Epstein (Ba'al ha-Pardes) of
Königsberg.
Alpert served as a rabbi in
Orlya in 1877 and
Mordy in 1880s. In 1890 he became a rabbi in Svisloch near
Bobruysk and was the head of a rabbinical court in the district of
Minsk. He soon abandoned his rabbinic duties in order to concentrate on
Talmud research and his writings. His published works included (books) ''Yad Morcechai'', ''Binyan Dovid'', ''Divrei Dodim'' and ''Chemed Mordechai''.
[''Chemed Mordechai'']
in hebrewbooks
/ref> He became known in the rabbinical world as "Yad Mordechai" after the he had published. He left some unpublished manuscripts that now reside in Hebrew University in Jerusalem and The Rambam Library in Tel-Aviv. Rabbi Alpert died during World War I while Germans occupied Svisloch.
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1850 births
1918 deaths
People from Slonim
People from Slonimsky Uyezd
Belarusian Orthodox rabbis
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