Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz: Difference between revisions

| yeshiva = [[Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn)|Mir yeshiva]], [[in Brooklyn]], New York, United States

| predecessor = Rabbi [[Avraham Kalmanowitz]]

| birth_name = Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz

| death_date = {{Death year and agedda|1998|044|16|1918|5|15}}

| death_place = [[Brooklyn]], New York, United States

| parents = Rabbi [[Avraham Kalmanowitz]]<br />Rochel Kalmanowitz

'''Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz''' ({{lang-he|שרגא משה קלמנוביץ}}; May 15, 1918 &ndash;– April 16, 1998) was a Polish-American [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi. He was thea co-[[rosh yeshiva]] (dean) of the [[Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn)|Mir Yeshiva]] in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]] , from 1964 to 1998.

Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz was born in [[Rakaw|Rakov]], Poland, in 1918<ref name=maayan/> to Rabbi [[Avraham Kalmanowitz]], the Ravrabbi of the town., Hisand motherRochel wasCohen, the daughter of Rabbi Betzalel Hakohen, a [[Beth din#Officers of a beth din|dayan]] (rabbinical court judge) in [[Vilna]] and author of the [[Talmud]]ic commentary ''Mareh Kohen'', which appears in all printed editions of the Talmud.{{sfncitation needed|Shapiro|1982|pagesdate=239-244July 2020}} He washad the eldestbrothers<ref>{{cite web |url=http://matzav.com/todays-yahrtzeits-history-28-teves/|title=Today’Today's Yahrtzeits & History &ndash; 28 Teves|publisher=matzav.com|date=January 14, 2010|accessdateaccess-date=June 18, 2015}}</ref> of three brothers;{{sfn|Shapiro|1996|p=260}} he also hadand two sisters.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

At the age of 10, heKalmanowitz began studying at the [[Mir yeshiva (BrooklynBelarus)|Mir Yeshivayeshiva]] in [[Mir, Belarus]], and later studied at the Kaminetz Yeshiva led by Rabbi [[Baruch Ber Leibowitz]].<ref name=maayan/> He came to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1941{{sfn|Finkelman|2003|p=65}} (his father had immigrated a year earlier{{sfn|Kranzler|Gevirtz|1991}}) and studied at both [[Yeshiva Torah Vodaas]] and [[Beth Medrash Elyon]].<ref name=maayan/>{{sfn|Gliksman|2009|p=132}}

After his marriage, Kalmanowitz became a [[maggid shiur]] in the [[Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn)|Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn]].{{sfn|Gliksman|2009|p=132}} Upon the death of his father in 1964, he and his brother-in-law, Rabbi [[Shmuel Berenbaum]], assumed the roles of co-roshroshei yeshivasyeshiva.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/flatbush-jewish-news/may_13_final/2010051301/18.html#18|title=Kabbalas Hatorah at Three Landmark Flatbush Yeshivas: The Mirrer Yeshiva,Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin and Mesivta Torah Vodaath|first=Daniel|last=Keren|date=May 13, 2010|accessdateaccess-date=June 18, 2015|newspaper=Flatbush Jewish Journal|page=18|archive-date=July 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709094933/http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/flatbush-jewish-news/may_13_final/2010051301/18.html#18|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.chinuch.org/gedolim_yahrtzeits/AdarII|title=Gedolim Yahrtzeits|first=Manny|last=Saltiel|publisher=chinuch.org|year=2015|accessdateaccess-date=June 18, 2015}}</ref> He followed his father’sfather's lead in overseeing the education of [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi]] North African students at the Mir Yeshiva. He was also close with Sephardi organizations in New York City; he was one of the speakers at the grand opening of the [[mikveh]] of the Sephardi Brooklyn community on Avenue S.{{sfn|Sutton|2005|p=298}}

HeKalmanowitz died on April 16, 1998 (20 [[Nisan]] 5758) in New York.<ref name=maayan>{{cite web |url=http://www.torah.org/learning/hamaayan/5758/emor.html|title=R' Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz a"h|work=HaMaayan|publisher=torah.org|first=Shlomo|last=Katz|date=May 16, 1998|accessdateaccess-date=June 18, 2015}}</ref> in New York. His bodyHe was flown to Israel for burialburied beside his father’sfather's grave in the [[Sanhedria Cemetery]] in [[Jerusalem]].<ref name="matzav.com">{{Cite web| url=https://matzav.com/rebbetzin-malka-kalmanowitz-ah/ | title=Rebbetzin Malka Kalmanowitz a”h | website=matzav.com}}</ref> His wife Malka Kalmanowitz died in 2020.<ref name="matzav.com"/>

===Sources===

*{{cite book| ref=harv|url=https://books.google.co.ilcom/books?id=dLLbIuhWmhkC&q=shraga+moshe+kalmanowitz+1998&dq=shraga+moshe+kalmanowitz+1998 |title= A Tale of Two Worlds: Rabbi Dovid and Rebbetzin Basya Bender|first=Devora|last=Gliksman|publisher=Mesorah Publications, Ltd.|year=2009|isbn = 9781422608883}}

*{{cite book|ref=harv|url=https://books.google.co.ilcom/books?id=MO8RAQAAIAAJ&q=shraga+moshe+kalmanowitz&dq=shraga+moshe+kalmanowitz|title=Rav Pam: The Life and Ideals of Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov HaKohen Pam|first= Shimon|last=Finkelman|year=2003|publisher=[[ArtScroll|Mesorah Publications, Ltd.]]|isbn=1578193842}}

*{{cite book |chapter=A Cry From the Heart: Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz|url=httphttps://booksarchive.google.co.ilorg/books?iddetails/tosaveworld0000kran|url-access=gLkWAQAAIAAJ&qregistration|quote=to+ save+ a+ world.|title=To Save a World: Profiles of Holocaust Rescue|first1=Dr. David|last1=Kranzler|first2=Rabbi Eliezer|last2=Gevirtz|publisher=CIS Publishers|year=1991|isbn=1-56062-061-7}}

*{{cite book |ref=harv|last=Rossoff |first=Dovid |title=קדושים אשר בארץ: קברי צדיקים בירושלים ובני ברק |trans_titletrans-title=The Holy Ones in the Earth: Graves of Tzaddikim in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak |language=Hebrew |year=2005 | publisher=Machon Otzar HaTorah |location=Jerusalem}}

*{{cite book|ref=harv|url=https://books.google.co.ilcom/books?id=RdEmAQAAMAAJ&q=shraga+kalmanowitz|title=Once upon a shtetl: A fond look back at a treasured slice of the Jewish past|first=Chaim|last=Shapiro|year=1996|publisher=Mesorah Publications, Ltd.|page=260|isbn = 9780899066424}}

*{{cite book|ref=harv|last=Shapiro|first=Chaim|chapter=The Last of His Kind: Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz|title=The Torah World: A treasury of biographical sketches|editor-first=Rabbi Nisson|editor-last=Wolpin|publisher=[[ArtScroll|Mesorah Publications, Ltd.]]|year=1982|isbn=0-89906-453-1}}

| NAME = {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalmanowitz, Shraga Moshe}}

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