Sholom Schwadron
| Rabbi Sholom Schwadron | |
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| Maggid of Jerusalem | |
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| Other |
Mashgiach ruchani, Yeshivat Tiferet Tzvi Rosh yeshiva, Mekor Chaim Yeshiva |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Sholom Mordechai Schwadron |
| Born | 1912 Jerusalem |
| Died | 21 December 1997 Jerusalem |
| Buried | Mount of Olives |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Denomination | Haredi |
| Parents | Rabbi Yitzchak and Freida Schwadron |
| Spouse | Leah Auerbach |
| Alma mater | Hebron yeshiva |
Sholom Mordechai Hakohen Schwadron (Hebrew: הרב שלום מרדכי הכהן שבדרון) (1912–21 December 1997) was a Haredi rabbi and orator. He was known as the "Maggid of Jerusalem" for his fiery, inspirational mussar talks. Some of the stories he told about the character and conduct of Torah leaders and tzadikim of previous generations were incorporated in the "Maggid" series of books by Rabbi Paysach Krohn, whom Schwadron mentored.
Schwadron was born in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem to Rabbi Yitzchak and Freida Schwadron. His father was formerly the av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of Khotymyr . He was the son of Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Schwadron, a leading halachic authority known by the Hebrew acronym Maharsham.
This was his father's second marriage. Yitzchak Schwadron was widowed of his first wife, Chaya Leah, in 1898, leaving him with nine children. In 1903 he immigrated to Palestine with four of his children and remarried Freida, who raised the orphans as her own. Yitzchak and Freida Schwadron had six more children together. Their son Sholom, born a year and a half after the death of the Maharsham, was named after his illustrious grandfather.
Yitzchak Schwadron died at the age of 63, leaving Freida a widow at the age of 35 and young Sholom an orphan at the age of 7. Freida struggled to support her young children, as well as her sickly brother who lived with her, by selling bread door to door. At night she found time to recite Psalms, and share with her children their father's Torah legacy. Schwadron later published some of his father's Torah thoughts in the introductions to his books, Oholei Shem and Daas Torah Maharsham (Part II).
For a few years, Sholom was forced to live at the Diskin Orphanage in Jerusalem. At the age of 12 he entered Yeshivat Tzion under Rabbi Yaakov Katzenelenbogen. At the age of 15 he entered the Lomza Yeshiva in Petach Tikva under Rabbi Eliyahu Dushnitzer.
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