How to Pronounce Yosef Shalom Eliashiv
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Apr 10, 1910 Šiauliai, Kovno Governorate, Lithuania Died on 18 Jul 2012 (aged 102)
Israeli haredi rabbi.
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About Yosef Shalom Eliashiv
- Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (Hebrew: ???? ???? ????????; 10 April 1910 – 18 July 2012) was a Haredi Rabbi and posek (arbiter of Jewish law) who lived in Jerusalem, Israel.
- Until his death at the age of 102, Rav Elyashiv was the paramount leader of both Israel and the Diaspora Lithuanian-Haredi community, and many Ashkenazi Jews regarded him as the posek ha-dor, the contemporary leading authority on halakha, or Jewish law.He spent most of his days engaged in Talmudical study, and delivered lectures in Talmud and Shulkhan Arukh at a local synagogue in the Meah Shearim area in Jerusalem where he lived.
- He received supplicants from all over the world, and answered the most complex Halakhic inquiries.
