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Rabbi Chaim Heller
Rabbi Chaim Heller
1879 CE–1960 CE · Acharonim · Warsaw
A Talmudist, biblical scholar, and textual critic, Rabbi Chaim Heller was the author of the multi-volume *Sefer HaMitzvos of the Rambam* and other studies in rabbinics and ancient languages. He served as a rabbi in Lomza and later founded the Academy of Higher Jewish Learning in Berlin, where his work combined traditional learning with philological research. His writings and correspondence made him a point of contact for leading rabbinic figures, including Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik.
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BialystokביאליסטוקNortheast Poland — Litvish-Hasidic frontier
What they did here
Born in Bialystok to Rabbi Yisrael Pinsker. He was later known for exceptional mastery of Talmud and for learning independently rather than in a formal yeshiva.
About Bialystok
Bialystok was a major Lithuanian-Polish Jewish center on the seam between Litvish and Hasidic worlds. R. Chaim Halberstam (Sanz dynasty) and R. Chaim Soloveitchik both had students teaching here. The city was 70% Jewish in 1900 (41,000 Jews); the community was annihilated in the Bialystok Ghetto uprising of August 1943.
Works(2)
Critical Edition of Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvos
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