Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz

Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz ( Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, known as and named after his magnum opus Chazon Ish, also: Hazon Ish, * 1878 in Kosova, Belarus, † in Bnei Brak 1953) was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmud scholar, and from 1933 until his death in a leader of the Haredim in Israel.

Life

From his early years Karelitz showed unusual talent; He devoted his life to Torah study, but was well versed in various sciences such as astronomy, anatomy, mathematics and botany. In 1911 he published his first work in Vilnius on Orach Chayim and other parts of the Shulchan Aruch anonymously under the title Chazon Ish ( " visionary," the name by which he was known). He went to Vienna and approached Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski there, went to the British Mandate of Palestine, where he settled in Bnei Brak later. Even after his marriage he studied day and night in the Talmud, he had no children, his wife took care of the living.

His house in Bnei Brak was visited by thousands of people who needed his advice or were simply inspired and comforted by his presence. Although he held no official position, he was still in Jewish questions as great authority, even Ben Gurion had once visited him and asked about religious topics (on the issue of service of young women in the Israeli army ). Karelitz belonged to no direction and was still very much appreciated by followers of different currents. In many Israeli cities streets are named after him.

Karelitz wrote more than 40 books on religious subjects in Hebrew, in a clear and straightforward style. After moving to Israel, he was for everything Jewish law and life was concerned, to the authority. Although he was not a head of a yeshiva, he had a strong influence on religious life and institutions.

Karelitz loved Zion, but was not an official member of the Zionist movement. Although he was a scholar, he devoted himself to practical problems. He thought about the use of milking machines on Shabbat to or through the cultivation of seedlings water during the sabbatical year, when in Eretz Israel no soil should be tilled, etc.

• Rabbi (Israel )
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1953
• Man