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The Mishneh Halachot

The Mishneh Halachot

1923 CE2011 CE · ACH · Jerusalem

R. Menashe Klein (1923–2011), the Ungvarer Rav, was the leading posek for Hungarian chassidic communities in Brooklyn and beyond. A Holocaust survivor from Ungvar, he built communities in Brooklyn's Boro Park and Williamsburg.

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Stop 1 of 81924Born

Orlova (near Ungvar)

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Born in 1924 in the town of Orlova near Ungvar in Czechoslovakia to Rabbi Eliezer Zev Klein, who served as a local rav. Spent his early years in this Subcarpathian region, which later became part of Ukraine, within a traditional Jewish environment shaped by his father's rabbinic role.

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Influenced byR. Yosef Shalom ElyashivThe Satmar RebbeThe Mishneh Halachot