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Shlomo Zalman Porush

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born in babruysk”. Today it says “one of the founders of the shaarei chessed fund and neighborhood in jerusalem”.
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Shlomo Zalman Porush , ( Hebrew : שלמה זלמן פרוש ), was born in Babruysk , Russian Empire (now Belarus ) in 1850 to his father Rabbi Naftali Zvi Porush (d. 1866) and mother Leah (d. 1900). He died in Jerusalem in 1898 and is buried on the Mount of Olives .1

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Then

born in babruysk

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one of the founders of the shaarei chessed fund and neighborhood in jerusalem

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