Elazar Shach

Elazar Menachem Man ( Hebrew אלעזר מנחם מן שך, also Elazar Menachem Shach or Eleazar / Leizer Shach / Eliezer chess; born January 13, 1898 in Wabolnick Northern Lithuania; † 2 November 2001 in Tel Aviv) was a leading chess ultra-Orthodox Rabbi in Israel, Talmudic capacity, recognized and supported by the Brisker Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer and Rabbi. Chess wrote the comment Avi Ezri the Mishneh Torah of the Rambam and was Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva in Bnei Brak Ponewiescher.

Elazar chess was also founder of the Degel HaTorah party. Rabbi chess was extremely anti-Zionist and despised the secular Israeli cultural identity, described for example in a speech in 1990 kibbutz residents as rabbit and pig farmers who do not know what Yom Kippur is, he was also against democracy, which he called a cancer. He also criticized Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, called it a blatant attempt to provoke the international community, and appealed to all Haredim to stay away from these settlements.

Rabbi chess was also opponents of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Rebbe of the Chabad -Lubavitch movement, which he described as a heretic and his followers as followers of a false messiah. In many Jewish questions - Halacha, religious and practical issues - were Schneerson and chess opposing opinion.

Rabbi chess had three children, all born in the 1920s in Kletsk: Miriam Raisel, Devorah, and Ephraim. His wife, Rebbetzin Guttel Chess died in 1969 from complications which was caused by her diabetes.