Elazar Shach
Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach (Hebrew: אלעזר מנחם מן שך) also spelled Eliezer Schach, (January 1, 1899 O.S. – November 2, 2001) was a leading Lithuanian-born and educated Haredi rabbi in Bnei Brak, Israel. He also served as one of three co-deans of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak along with Rabbis Shmuel Rozovsky and Dovid Povarsky. He founded the Degel HaTorah political party representing Lithuanian Ashkenazi Jews in the Israeli Knesset.
Shach served as chairman of Chinuch Atzmai and Va'ad HaYeshivos. From 1970 until his death, Shach was generally recognized by the Yeshiva world and by much of the Haredi world as the Gadol Ha-Dor. He was an ideologue and a zealot who repeatedly led his followers into ideological battles.
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