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Pinchas Menachem Alter ( June 9 1926 - March 7 1996 ), was also known as the Pnei Menachem (for the name/s of his Torah works). He was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the sixth rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Hasidic Judaism Ger (Hasidic dynasty) in Israel from 1992 to 1996 . Ger originated in Poland ( Góra Kalwaria ) and is probably the single largest Hasidic group in Israel. Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter succeeded his half-brother Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter to become rebbe. He continued the policies of his brothers by supporting the political work of the Agudat Israel of Israel party promoting the interests of Haredi Judaism in the Israeli Knesset (parliament). He reached a rappprochement with his non-Hasidic Ashkenazi Haredi fellow-rabbis, in particular with Rabbi Elazar Man Shach , leader of the rival Degel HaTorah party and creating the United Torah Judaism ( Yahadut HaTorah ) party in order not to lose residual votes in the Israeli proportional representation system and thereby obtain an extra seat or two for the newly united party in Knesset elections. Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter passed away in 1996 after only four years at the helm of the Ger Hasidim and was succeeded by his nephew Rabbi Yakov Aryeh Alter , son of Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter , the fifth rebbe of Ger.1
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Pinchas Menachem Alter , (9 June 1926 – 7 March 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem after the works he authored, was the sixth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger , a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996.
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Pinchas Menachem Alter ( , June 9, 1926 – March 7, 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem (Hebrew: ), after the works he authored, was the seventh Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger , a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996.
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Pinchas Menachem Alter ( , June 9, 1926 – March 7, 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem ( פני מנחם ), after the works he authored, was the seventh rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger , a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996. From 1956 until he was appointed rebbe, he was a Rosh Yeshiva (dean of a yeshiva ).He also served as a member and the president of the Torah Scholars Council and as the chairman of the Agudat Yisrael political party.GalEinai - Revealing the Torah's Inner Dimension .
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Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty Pinchas Menachem Alter ( Hebrew : פינחס מנחם אלתר ; July 3, 1926 – March 7, 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem ( פני מנחם ), after the works he authored, was the seventh rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger , a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996. From 1956 until he was appointed rebbe, he was a Rosh Yeshiva (dean of a yeshiva ). He also served as a member and the president of the Torah Scholars Council and as the chairman of the Agudat Yisrael political party. GalEinai - Revealing the Torah's Inner Dimension .
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known as the pnei menachem
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seventh rebbe of the hasidic dynasty of ger
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