Shmuel Auerbach
{{short description|Israeli rabbi}}
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| yeshiva = Yeshivas Ma'alos HaTorah
| yeshivaposition = Rosh yeshiva
| organisation = Jerusalem Faction
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|9|21|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
| death_place = Jerusalem
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|2|24|1931|9|21|mf=y}}
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| nationality = Israeli
| residence = Sha'arei Hesed, Jerusalem
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| parents = Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Chaya Rivka Ruchamkin
| spouse = Rachel (deceased)
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Shmuel Auerbach ({{langx|he|שמואל אוירבך}}; September 21, 1931 – February 24, 2018){{Cite web|url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/242351|title = Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach dies at 86| date=24 February 2018 }} was a Haredi rabbi in Jerusalem.{{cite news |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3968304,00.html |title=Top rabbis: IDF conversions endorse gentiles as Jews |date=13 October 2010 |accessdate=4 January 2011 |work=Ynetnews|last1=Nahshoni |first1=Kobi }}. He was considered a leader in the non-Hasidic Haredi community in Israel. His followers formed a political organisation known as the Jerusalem Faction.{{Cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Rav-Shmuel-Auerbach-beyond-the-headlines-544018|title = Rav Shmuel Auerbach – beyond the headlines| newspaper=The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com }} In 2013, as the Israeli government launched a campaign to draft Ultra Orthodox men into the IDF, the organisation adopted a controversial policy of demonstrations and incitement against the draft.{{Cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Radical-haredi-leader-Rabbi-Shmuel-Auerbach-dies-suddenly-543524|title = Radical Haredi leader Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach dies suddenly| newspaper=The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/rabbi-auerbach-the-leader-of-jerusalem-s-ultra-orthodox-dies-at-86-1.5846321|title = Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, the leader of radical Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox sect, dies at 86| newspaper=Haaretz }}
Biography
Auerbach was the eldest son of Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and his wife, Chaya Rivka Ruchamkin. He was born in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sha'arei Hesed{{mdash}}as was his father{{mdash}}and resided there all his life. He married Rachel Paksher{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=27YQAQAAIAAJ&q=shmuel+auerbach |title=Mishlei |last1=Ginzburg |first1=Eliezer ben Efrayim Mordekhai |last2=Weinberger |first2=Yosef |last3=Scherman |first3=Nosson |publisher=Mesorah Publications, Ltd. |year=2007 |page=667 |isbn= 978-1-4226-0590-5}} (d. 11 January 1990).{{cite book |last1=Geller |first1=Shalom Yosef |last2=Rubin |first2=Yitzchak Mordechai |title=Orchos Shabbat – Part One|language=Hebrew |year=2003 |publisher=Machon Hadarat Yerushalayim}} Dedication page. They had no children. He named his musar sefer Ohel Rachel in her memory.
Rabbinic career
Auerbach was the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Maalot HaTorah{{cite web |url=http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/ravauerbach.html |last=Sofer |first=D. |title=Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt"l |work=Yated Ne'eman (United States) |accessdate=19 December 2010 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716191105/http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/ravauerbach.html |archivedate=16 July 2012 }} and the Nasi (president) of Yeshivas Midrash Shmuel{{cite web |url=http://www.aliyosshmuel.com/whoeswho.asp |title=Who's Who in Midrash Shmuel |publisher=Aliyos Shmuel |accessdate=4 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123104605/http://www.aliyosshmuel.com/whoeswho.asp |archivedate=23 January 2010 }} and Yeshivas Toras Simcha,{{cite web |url=https://www.torassimcha.org/newsletter/Vol1_Iss3_December_2009.pdf |title=Yeshivas Toras Simcha |date=December 2009 |volume=1 |issue=3 |accessdate=4 January 2010|publisher=torassimcha.org}} both in Jerusalem. For a short time, he also served as one of the roshei yeshiva of Yeshivas Itri in Jerusalem.{{cite web |url=http://www.tog.co.il/en/TorahNew.aspx?id=2184 |title=Baruch Dayan Emes: Rosh Yeshivas Itri ztz'l |date=11 August 2009 |last=Greenwald |first=Avi |publisher=Tog News |accessdate=4 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008000209/http://www.tog.co.il/en/TorahNew.aspx?id=2184 |archivedate=8 October 2011 }} He was the head of the {{ill|Bnei Torah|he|בני תורה (מפלגה)}} party (colloquially referred to as "Etz"), which he founded.
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=mxf2QDFNvcYC&q=shmuel&pg=PA100 Photo of Shmuel Auerbach with his parents and siblings, circa 1936]
- [http://www.demotiximages.com/news/454929/great-rabbi-elyashiv-celebrates-simchat-bet-hashoeva-succot Photos of Rabbi Auerbach with Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv] on Sukkot 2010
- [https://matzav.com/video-rav-shmuel-auerbach-lighting-menorah Video: Rav Shmuel Auerbach Lighting Menorah (2009)]
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