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Moshe Shatzkes
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “renowned rabbi”. Today it says “rabbi and renowned talmudic scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Lithuanian-Belarusian Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and rosh yeshiva”. It now reads “, Talmudic scholar, and rosh yeshiva”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
He was one of the pre-eminent Roshei Yeshiva (yeshiva heads) and one of the greatest rabbis in all of Poland.1 He was a leader in all aspects of communal life, well known as an outstanding orator, scholar, and halachic arbitrator.2 Shatzkes was a close friend of Rabbi Yitzchak Halevi Herzog , chief rabbi of Israel, and had been a close friend and confidante of both the Chofetz Chaim and Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski before the Second World War .3
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “renowned rabbi”. Today it says “rabbi and renowned talmudic scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Lithuanian-Belarusian Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and rosh yeshiva”. It now reads “, Talmudic scholar, and rosh yeshiva”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
renowned rabbi
Now
rabbi and renowned talmudic scholar
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