• Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Telshe (Telšiai), Lithuania. Rabbi Bloch was born on February 13, 1860, in Raseiniai...
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    Rabbinical College of Telshe. In October 1930 Yosef Leib Bloch died and his second oldest son, Avraham Yitzchak Bloch succeeded him as both community rabbi and...
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  • rabbinic figures. Avraham Yitzchak Bloch was born in 1891 into a Jewish family and was the second son of Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch, the Rosh yeshiva of Telz. He...
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  • musician, songwriter, composer, rock singer, and hi-tech entrepreneur Yosef Leib Bloch (1860–1929), Lithuanian rabbi Block (surname) Kleiner, Stefan; Knöbl...
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  • Rabbi Bloch was born in 1894 on Simchas Torah in Telšiai (Telshe), Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, to Rabbi Yosef Leib and Chasya Bloch. His...
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    Yosef Yitzchak (Joseph Isaac) Schneersohn (Yiddish: יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן; 21 June 1880 – 28 January 1950) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe (spiritual...
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  • Yosef, who died in 1896. He learned in Telz and Slabodka. When Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch opened a branch of Telz in Shadova, he invited Rav Preil to teach there...
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    in Telz Yeshiva, attending the lectures of its Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch. He was also taught by the renowned Rabbi Yitzchok Blazer and learned...
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    Rabbi Yitzchak of Radvill; son-in-law of Rabbi Avrohom Leib Bloch of Nadvorna Grand Rabbi Aaron Leib Leifer of Nadvorna (1819–1897), was known as a great...
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  • Chayes), Galician Talmudic scholar Yosef Chayim (1835–1909), the Ben Ish Hai, Iraqi halakhist and preacher Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898), rabbi in Shklov...
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