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Asher Weiss
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “current rosh kollel of machon minchas osher l’torah v’horaah”. Today it says “posek”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli rabbi and author Weiss in 2007”. It now reads “Israeli rabbi and author Weiss in 2007 Harav”.
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He grew up in a Klausenberger family in Borough Park, Brooklyn .1 He is the author of the Minchas Osher seforim on Moadim,Torah,and 17 volume Shu"t, an Av Beis Din , Rosh Kollel , posek , and is well known in Haredi circles for having traveled to the United States with Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman and Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter , the Gerrer Rebbe .2
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “current rosh kollel of machon minchas osher l’torah v’horaah”. Today it says “posek”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli rabbi and author Weiss in 2007”. It now reads “Israeli rabbi and author Weiss in 2007 Harav”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
current rosh kollel of machon minchas osher l’torah v’horaah
Now
posek
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