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the boy turned over the entire chocolate pudding pot. The boy was punished and publicly reprimanded by school officials. He was told Reb Aryeh, the spiritual mentor of the institution, would decide whether he should be expelled. Next morning, he met Levine who asked him to sit next to him. He asked him, “Did you spill over the pot as they said that you did?” The child admitted his guilt. “Will you do such a thing again in the future?” Reb Aryeh asked. “No, never again,” said the child. Reb Aryeh asked him then, "Do you really like chocolate pudding?” “Yes,” he answered. Reb Aryeh said, “I too love chocolate pudding. I have here two containers of chocolate pudding, so let us sit down here together and eat chocolate pudding.” At that moment, the educator said he realized what it meant to be a Torah Jew.
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and holidays. Mattityahu Shmuelevitz, whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, wrote to a friend: “Yet there is one person in particular to whom I remain grateful first and foremost; a dear, precious Jew about whom you told me nothing; but it was he who stormed heaven and earth for me;
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Levine was known for his "humility, kindness, and respect for all... He treated everyone he met with love, respect, and dignity." "He saw only the good in human beings, even those for whom others rarely had a kind word." "Reb Aryeh Levin was perpetually involved with deeds of charity and helping the
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An administrator in the Israeli school system recounted his experience as a child at one of Jerusalem's boarding schools. One day chocolate pudding was served and the boy wolfed it down and got back in line asking for another portion. The server refused with a nasty remark. Frustrated and angered,
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neighborhood was tiny and sparsely furnished. He explained: "Many times tried to tell me that I should move from my apartment to a more spacious place, and I refused. Observe that after a long life, a man is taken from his apartment to the cemetery. So for me the adjustment will be easier, my room
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Levin was known for his visits to the sick, especially patients who had no family of their own. "It was Reb Aryeh's practice to go to the hospitals of Jerusalem every Friday, to visit the sick who were confined there. First he would always go and speak with the nurses, to find out from them which
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patients received no visitors as a rule. At the beds of these forgotten souls whom no relatives came to see, he would linger, caressing each one's hand and giving him words of encouragement and cheer. He would sit for hours near the beds of the sick, especially at
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and more important — it was he who brought me closer to my Maker in those fateful days... He left and we remained in the prison. He couldn't take us with him out into the free world, but he always brought the outside world in to us.”
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In 1965, Rabbi Levin was honored at a ceremony organized by veteran underground resistance fighters in honor of his eightieth birthday. It was held in the courtyard of the old central prison in the
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in Jerusalem. Inscribed on his gravestone is the following instruction to visitors: "I ask anyone who comes to my grave to say: 'I firmly believe that there will be a
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Being a Jewish Woman: The Remarks of the Second International Conference on Women and Judaism, Held in Jerusalem in Tammuz- June, 2001
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dubbed the "Father of Prisoners" for his visits to members of the Jewish underground imprisoned in the Central Prison of
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Levin died six days after his 84th birthday. He and his wife Tzippora are buried in the
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on charges of arms possession or smuggling. Most of the prisoners were members of the
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when the time that the will arises from the Creator, blessed be His name.'"
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in order to identify the mutilated remains of 12 Jewish fighters of the
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In 1931, at the request of the British Mandate authorities, Chief Rabbi
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and married Tzipora Hanna, the daughter of Rabbi David Shapira.
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In 1925, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer was appointed to head the
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located 47 km (29 mi) south of the regional capital
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to what was then Ottoman Palestine. Soon after he moved to
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire
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appointed Reb Aryeh Levin the official Jewish Prison
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A Tzaddik in Our Time: The life of Rabbi Aryeh Levin
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Feldheim Publishers. pp. 494–496. 178:Aryeh Levin was born near the village of 750:"עצור! הזדהה! | בית המדרש | שיעורי תורה" 328:, Rabbi Levin invoked a ritual known as 1256:Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent 413: 555:: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( 548: 1236:Ashkenazi rabbis in Ottoman Palestine 777:(in Hebrew). קולך. 2003. p. 103. 7: 1241:Haredi rabbis in Mandatory Palestine 945:Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi) 821:from the original on 29 October 2012 686:from the original on 4 December 2012 481:from the original on 20 August 2012 454:from the original on 20 August 2012 260:Museum of the Underground Prisoners 140: 448:"Aryeh Levin: Father of Prisoners" 14: 848:from the original on 4 March 2016 659:from the original on 23 July 2018 968: 1123:Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz 538:from the original on 2008-12-03 682:. Ohr Somayach International. 262:), was used as a synagogue on 1: 162:. He was also known as the " 1277: 423:Where Heaven Touches Earth 301:, including a hospital in 18: 1216:People from Bielsk County 1175: 1018:Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin 966: 930:Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin 678:Ullman, Rabbi Yirmiyahu. 348:Levin's apartment in the 126: 92: 38: 16:Israeli rabbi (1885–1969) 1013:Micha Josef Berdyczewski 402:Resurrection of the Dead 320:Identification of bodies 1251:Israeli Orthodox rabbis 1246:Haredi rabbis in Israel 1063:Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman 1048:Moshe Mordechai Epstein 477:. The Jewish Magazine. 450:. The Jewish Magazine. 368:and Levin was made the 326:1947–1949 Palestine war 222:Father of the Prisoners 1128:Yitzchak Yaacov Reines 844:. 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Aryeh Levin (diplomat)

Orla
Judaism
Mashgiach
Etz Chaim Yeshiva
Sanhedria Cemetery
Hebrew
Orthodox
rabbi
Jerusalem
Russian Compound
British Mandate
Tzadik
Jerusalem
Orla
Białystok
Russian Empire
Poland
Slonim
Slutsk
Volozhin
Brisk
emigrated
Jerusalem
Abraham Isaac Kook
Chaplain
Nachlaot
Russian Compound
Palmach

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