Biographies of the Tzaddikim

Rav Chaim Michoel Dov Weissmandl Toras Chemed (Kislev 6, 5718 / 1957 - 67th Yahrzeit)

Rabbi Chaim Michoel Dov Weissmandl [6 Kislev 1957] made extraordinary but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to save the Jews of Slovakia during the Holocaust. A survivor himself, he subsequently moved to USA and in 1946 founded the Nitra yeshiva in Somerville New Jersey, an attempt to inaugurate a Talmudic agricultural community. He subsequently moved the yeshiva to Mt. Kisco, NY, where it still exists and flourishes. Today he is best known for his pioneering work on Torah Codes in an era before computers.

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