Avraham Mordechai Alter
| Avraham Mordechai Alter | |
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| Gerrer Rebbe | |
The Gerrer Rebbe at a prayer gathering in the Hurva Synagogue, November 1942
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| Term | 1905 – 3 June 1948 |
| Full name | Avraham Mordechai Alter |
| Main work | Imrei Emes |
| Born |
December 25, 1866 Góra Kalwaria, Poland |
| Died | 3 June 1948 (aged 81) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Buried | Sfas Emes Yeshiva, Jerusalem |
| Predecessor | Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter |
| Successor | Yisrael Alter |
| Father | Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter |
| Mother | Yocheved Rivka Kaminer |
| Wife 1 | Chaya Ruda Czarna |
| Children 1 | Meir Alter Yitzchak Alter Feyge Alter Esther Alter Yisrael Alter Simcha Bunim Alter |
| Wife 2 | Feyge Mintshe Biderman |
| Children 2 | Pinchas Menachem Alter |
Avraham Mordechai Alter (Polish: Abraham Mordekhaj Alter, Hebrew אברהם מרדכי אלתר; 25 December 1866 – 3 June 1948), also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he authored, was the fourth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1905 until his death in 1948. He was one of the founders of the Agudas Israel in Poland and was influential in establishing a network of Jewish schools there. It is claimed that at one stage he led over 200,000 Hasidim.
He had eight children by his first wife, Chaya Ruda Czarna, daughter of Noah Czarny, a prominent Gerrer Hasid in Biala. His eldest son, Rabbi Meir Alter, who was a Torah scholar and businessman, perished in Treblinka during the Holocaust with his children and grandchildren. His second son, Rabbi Yitzchak Alter, died in 1934 in Poland.
In 1922, his wife Chaya Ruda died. Some time later he married his niece, Feyge Mintshe Biderman, who bore him his youngest child, Pinchas Menachem Alter, in 1926.
In 1924, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai visited Palestine together with his brother in-law, Rabbi Hirsh Heynekh Lewin, his son-in-law Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter and the Sokolover Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchak Zelig Morgensztern. Over a six-week period, they visited Jerusalem, Safed, Hebron, Tiberias and Tel Aviv.
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