Pinsk
Belarus
Pinsk, a city in the Polesia region of southern Belarus, had a large Jewish community and was a major center of both Lithuanian Torah learning and chasidut. Its suburb of Karlin gave its name to the Karlin (Karlin-Stolin) chasidic dynasty, founded in the 1760s by Rabbi Aharon the Great of Karlin, a disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch, from where chasidut spread through Lithuania and Belorussia.
2 teachers · 1 work · 12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1904
Torah Temimah on Torah
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Pinsk. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Mai Ta'ama (What is the Reason)483 passages
- Derash (Homiletical Interpretation)413 passages
- Kodashim (Sanctified Items, Temple Offerings)326 passages
- Korban (Sacrificial Offering, generic)283 passages
- Tumah and Taharah (Ritual Impurity and Purity, umbrella)247 passages
- Chatat (Sin Offering)228 passages
- Tzaraat (Biblical 'Leprosy', Ritual Affliction)185 passages
- Asmachta (Scriptural Hint)184 passages
- Nedarim (Vows, general)168 passages
- Shabbat (The Sabbath)166 passages
- Pesach (Festival of Passover, umbrella)161 passages
- Terumah and Maaser (Priestly Tithes)141 passages