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347:: "Jewish Civil Registry of Warsaw", Town: Warsaw, District #: 6, Year: 1865, Akt (record) #: 381, Marriage Date: 28-Aug-1864, Groom: Alter Halber, Groom's Age: 18, Groom's Father: Nuta, Groom's Mother: Fajga, Groom's Mother's Father: Lajbus, Bride: Szyfra Mirla Trunk, Bride's Age: 18, Bride's Father: Szyia, Bride's Mother: Prywa, Bride's Mother's Father: Chaim
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At the Kalisz yeshiva he cultivated promising young Torah scholars to form the next generation of Jewish leaders. On one occasion a delegation from
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Wax lost his position as rabbi of Kalisz in a dispute over a wedding, when the influential father of the bride insisted on including elements forbidden in Jewish custom and law. The father refused the rabbi's request to conform to custom, and had his friend the governor command Wax to perform the
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agriculture in Israel, at a time when the etrog was an important symbol in Jewish culture. He traveled to Israel in 1886, with his father-in-law Rabbi Trunk, to supervise etrog plantations and establish housing and jobs for members of the Warsaw-Kolel who had come to Israel.
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and Wax was appointed his successor. His arrival inaugurated a new period of religious observance in the town, during which even shoemakers dedicated hours during the day to torah studies. A new synagogue was also built in Kalisz during his rabbinate.
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ceremony. When the rabbi refused the governor dismissed him from his post. Though the wedding eventually proceeded according to the rabbi's demands, Wax's tenure as rabbi of Kalisz was at an end. Instead he became rabbi of
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of the delegation Wax instructed Singer to sit on his rabbinical chair and handed him a rabbinical hat. Wax then faced the delegation, calling out "Mazel Tov! Here is your rabbi!"
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