Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach
| Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach | |
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| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva |
| Began | 1906 |
| Ended | 1954 |
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| Birth name | Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach |
| Born | 1883 |
| Died | 26 September 1954 Jerusalem |
| Buried | Har HaMenuchot |
| Residence | Jerusalem |
| Parents | Rabbi Avraham Dov Auerbach |
| Spouse | Tzivia Porush |
| Children |
Shlomo Zalman Avraham Dov Eliezer Refoel Dovid Leah (wife of Rabbi Shalom Schwadron) Malka Rochel (wife of Rabbi Simcha Bunim Leizerson) |
Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883 – 26 September 1954) was a Haredi rabbi and roshei yeshiva of Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva, a landmark Jerusalem institution specializing in Talmudic and kabbalah studies for Ashkenazi scholars that he helped found in 1906. The yeshiva still exists today. Known for his great love and personal sacrifice for Torah and Torah scholars, Auerbach raised sons who also became great scholars — including his eldest son, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, a preeminent posek of the mid- to late-twentieth century.
Auerbach was descended from an illustrious line of Hasidic leaders. His father was Rabbi Avraham Dov Auerbach, the Admor of Chernowitz-Chmielnik, Poland, who was a son-in-law of Rabbi Tzvi Halberstam, son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Rabbi Avraham Dov was a son of Rabbi Yehuda Dov Auerbach of Tsfat and Jerusalem, who was a son of Rabbi Yoel Faivel Stein. who was a son-in-law of Rabbi Avraham Dov of Chmielnik, a son-in-law of Rabbi Jacob Joseph of Polonne, the Baal Shem Tov's most prominent disciple and author of Toldos Yaakov Yosef on Hasidic thought.
Auerbach married Tzivya, the daughter of Jerusalem community leader Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Porush, who founded the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sha'arei Hesed. Their first son, Shlomo Zalman, named after his maternal grandfather, was the first child born in Sha'arei Hesed.
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