One of the Radziner Rebbes and currently backing Radziner Techeiles.
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Bio from Wikipedia: Nahum Eliezer Rabinovitch (Hebrew: נַחוּם אֱלִיעֶזֶר רָבִּינוֹבִיץּ׳; 30 April 1928 – 6 May 2020), born Norman Louis Rabinovitch,was a Canadian-Israeli Religious Zionist rabbi and posek. He headed the London School of Jewish Studies from 1971 to 1982, and the hesder yeshiva Birkat Moshe in Ma’ale Adumim from 1982 until his death. Early life and education Nahum Rabinovitch was born in Montreal, Quebec to Sarah (née Weiner) and Sam Rabinovitch. After…
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From Arutz Sheva: Rabbi Knohl was born in 1948 to parents who were among the founders of Kfar Etzion before the War of Independence, and after the Six-Day War he was among those who re-established Kfar Etzion, the first town in Gush Etzion. Rabbi Knohl served in the Paratroopers Brigade in the IDF. He studied…
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From the Scheiner’s Shul website: “Rabbi Aron Lankry is a dynamic & electric individual with many years of international experience in the Rabbinate & in teaching Jewish Studies. He began his career in 1989, studying in Kollel Ner Yitzchok in Jerusalem & then in 1991 at the young age of 23,he took the position of…
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10-5-6-5 add up to the numerical equivalent of 26, which is YKVK (the Tetragrammaton). This is a centuries-old tying Minhag (Italian Jews; Spanish, Portuguese and North African Sephardim).
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Take the picture at face value. https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.ebr.597 page 113R “Manuscript facsimile of Abraham Abulafia’s Kabbalah meditation manual ‘Light of the Intellect’ (composed in 1285 in Messina, Sicily) VAT. EBR. 597 133 ff. (ff. 130v-133v blank). Parchment. 134 × 91 (74 × 52) mm. Quaternions., mid-late 15th century. Italian semi-cursive script. ספר אור השכל Or ha-Sekhel,…
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Picture of Jews in a Bais HaKneses wearing Talleisim with Techeiles. This manuscript of the Tur was written (as per is colophon) in Mantua Italy 1435. It is now owned by the Vatican. The picture, depicting a synagogue scene, was drawn as a hakdamah to Tur Orach Chayim. The tichales is most clearly shown on…
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Former Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. From Wikipedia: “Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, MBE (Hebrew: Yaakov Zvi, יעקב צבי; born 8 March 1948) is a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author and politician. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue…
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