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A Haredi Humanist In Jerusalem – Introducing Rav Tukachinsky’s Gesher HaChayim
In the 1940s, whilst the Second World War ravaged Europe, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky (1871-1955) composed what would become an authoritative work on the laws, practices and philosophy of Jewish mourning. He called it Gesher HaChayim, or, The Bridge of … Continue reading
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