Zundel Kroizer (25 November 1924 - 7 May 2014) was a Haredi

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and the author of ''

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Ohr Hachamah'' on the entire

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, ''

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'', Five '' Chumashim'' and the '' Haggadah shel Pesach''. He was born in

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to Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Kroizer. In his youth, he studied at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He married the daughter of Rabbi Aharon Porush, treasurer of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and author of ''Ephah Sh'lemah'' on the Talmud. Over the years, he served as '' melamed'' at various '' cheders'' and ''

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s'' including the Meah Shearim Talmud Torah and the ''cheder'' of

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. He once spent a year establishing a school in Lugano, Switzerland. During the last 25 years of his life, he was employed by the in Jerusalem to answer the students' questions. He died in May 2014 at Shaare Zedek Medical Center. At his

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, he was

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by several rabbis, including Rabbis

Shmuel Auerbach Shmuel Auerbach ( he, שמואל אורבך) (September 21, 1931 – February 24, 2018) was a Haredi rabbi in Jerusalem. Rav Auerbach led a large portion of more radical elements of the non-Hasidic Haredi community. His followers formed a political ...

and

Gamliel Rabinowitz Gamliel HaKohen Rabinowitz (Rappaport) is a rosh yeshiva of Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. He is a recognized expert in Jewish Law and Kabbalah. Family Rabinowitz is the son of Rabbi Levi HaKohen Rabinowitz (1920-2015), author o ...

. He was interred on Har HaMenuchot.

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1924 births 2014 deaths Haredi rabbis in Israel Burials at Har HaMenuchot Rabbis in Jerusalem {{Israel-rabbi-stub