Shmuel Auerbach

Rabbi
Shmuel Auerbach
שמואל אוירבך
Auerbach in 2013
Personal life
Born(1931-09-21)September 21, 1931
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
DiedFebruary 24, 2018(2018-02-24) (aged 86)
Jerusalem
NationalityIsraeli
SpouseRachel (deceased)
Parent(s)Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Chaya Rivka Ruchamkin
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationHaredi
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaYeshivas Ma'alos HaTorah
OrganisationJerusalem Faction
ResidenceSha'arei Hesed, Jerusalem

Shmuel Auerbach (Hebrew: שמואל אוירבך; September 21, 1931 – February 24, 2018)[1] was a Haredi rabbi in Jerusalem. Considered a leader in the non-Hasidic Haredi community in Israel, his followers formed a political organisation known as the Jerusalem Faction.

Biography

Auerbach was the eldest son of Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and his wife, Chaya Rivka Ruchamkin.[2] He was born in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sha'arei Hesed—as was his father[2]—and resided there all his life. He married Rachel Paksher[3] (d. 11 January 1990).[4] They had no children. He named his musar sefer Ohel Rachel in her memory.

Rabbinic career

Auerbach was the rosh yeshiva of Ma'alot HaTorah [he][2] and the Nasi (president) of Yeshivas Midrash Shmuel[5] and Yeshivas Toras Simcha,[6] both in Jerusalem. For a short time, he also served as one of the roshei yeshiva of Yeshivas Itri in Jerusalem.[7]

Auerbach was the head of the Bnei Torah [he] party (colloquially referred to as "Etz"), which he founded. His followers formed a political organisation known as the Jerusalem Faction.[8] In a 2010 letter signed together with Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Aharon Leib Shteinman and Nissim Karelitz, Auerbach expressed his strong disapproval of conversions to Judaism involving Israeli soldiers—being performed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) rabbis—the process of which the former determined to be a violation of halakha (Jewish law).[9] In 2013, as the Israeli government launched a campaign to draft Ultra Orthodox men into the IDF, the Jerusalem Faction adopted a controversial policy of demonstrations and incitement against the draft.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach dies at 86". 24 February 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Sofer, D. "Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt"l". Yated Ne'eman (United States). Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  3. ^ Ginzburg, Eliezer ben Efrayim Mordekhai; Weinberger, Yosef; Scherman, Nosson (2007). Mishlei. Mesorah Publications, Ltd. p. 667. ISBN 978-1-4226-0590-5.
  4. ^ Geller, Shalom Yosef; Rubin, Yitzchak Mordechai (2003). Orchos Shabbat – Part One (in Hebrew). Machon Hadarat Yerushalayim. Dedication page.
  5. ^ "Who's Who in Midrash Shmuel". Aliyos Shmuel. Archived from the original on 23 January 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  6. ^ "Yeshivas Toras Simcha" (PDF). torassimcha.org. December 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  7. ^ Greenwald, Avi (11 August 2009). "Baruch Dayan Emes: Rosh Yeshivas Itri ztz'l". Tog News. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  8. ^ "Rav Shmuel Auerbach – beyond the headlines". The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com.
  9. ^ Nahshoni, Kobi (13 October 2010). "Top Rabbis: IDF Conversions Endorse Gentiles as Jews". Ynetnews. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  10. ^ "Radical Haredi leader Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach dies suddenly". The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com.
  11. ^ "Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, the leader of radical Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox sect, dies at 86". Haaretz.
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