In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “orthodox rabbi who lives in jerusalem in the state of israel”. Today it says “haredi rabbi and posek”.
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Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (or Elyashiv ), is an Orthodox rabbi who lives in Jerusalem in the State of Israel . Well into his nineties, he is nevertheless lucid and active and remains the paramount leader of Israel's mitnagdim (non- Hasidic Haredi Ashkenazi Jews ) who regard him as the posek ha-dor ( Hebrew : "Decisor [of] the Generation"), the leading authority on Torah law, i.e. halakha , at the present time. He is also a grandson of a famous kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Ben Hayim Haikel Eliashiv zt"l ( Leshem ) (1841-1925) from Shavel, Lithuania.1
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Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (born April 10, 1910) is a Haredi rabbi and posek (arbiter of Jewish law ) who lives in Jerusalem , Israel .At the age of 116, Elyashiv is active and remains the paramount leader of both Israel and the Diaspora Lithuanian -Haredi community, and many Ashkenazi Jews regard him as the posek ha-dor , the contemporary leading authority on halakha , or Jewish law.
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Yosef Shalom Elyashiv ( ; April 10, 1910 – July 18, 2012) was a Haredi rabbi and posek (arbiter of Jewish law ) who lived in Jerusalem , Israel .Until his death at the age of 102, Elyashiv was the paramount leader of both Israel and the Diaspora Lithuanian -Haredi community, and many Ashkenazi Jews regarded him as the posek ha-dor , the contemporary leading authority on halakha , or Jewish law.He spent most of his days engaged in Talmudical study, and delivered lectures in Talmud and Shulkhan Arukh at a local synagogue in the Meah Shearim area in Jerusalem where he lived.He received supplicants from all over the world and answered the most complex Halakhic inquiries.
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Yosef Shalom Elyashiv ( ; 10 April 1910 – 18 July 2012) was a Haredi Rabbi and posek (arbiter of Jewish law ) who lived in Jerusalem , Israel . Until his death at the age of 102, Rav Elyashiv was the paramount leader of both Israel and the Diaspora Lithuanian -Haredi community, and many Ashkenazi Jews regarded him as the posek ha-dor , the contemporary leading authority on halakha , or Jewish law. He spent most of his days engaged in Talmudical study, and delivered lectures in Talmud and Shulkhan Arukh at a local synagogue in the Meah Shearim area in Jerusalem where he lived. He received supplicants from all over the world, and answered the most complex Halakhic inquiries.
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Yosef Shalom Elyashiv ( ; 10 April 1910 – 18 July 2012) was a Haredi Rabbi and posek (arbiter of Jewish law ) who lived in Jerusalem . Until his death at the age of 102, Rav Elyashiv was the paramount leader of both Israel and the Diaspora Lithuanian -Haredi community, and many Ashkenazi Jews regarded him as the posek ha-dor , the contemporary leading authority on halakha , or Jewish law. He spent most of his days engaged in Talmudical study, and delivered lectures in Talmud and Shulkhan Arukh at a local synagogue in the Meah Shearim area in Jerusalem where he lived. He received supplicants from all over the world, and answered the most complex Halakhic inquiries.
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Israeli Haredi rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv ( Hebrew : יוסף שלום אלישיב ; 10 April 1910 – 18 July 2012) was a Haredi rabbi and posek (arbiter of Jewish law ) who lived in Jerusalem . Until his death at the age of 102, Rav Elyashiv was the paramount leader of both Israel and the Diaspora Lithuanian -Haredi community, and many Ashkenazi Jews regarded him as the posek ha-dor , the contemporary leading authority on halakha , or Jewish law. He spent most of his days engaged in Talmudical study, and delivered lectures in Talmud and Shulkhan Arukh at a local synagogue in the Meah Shearim area in Jerusalem where he lived. He received supplicants from all over the world, and answered the most complex Halakhic inquiries.
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orthodox rabbi who lives in jerusalem in the state of israel
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haredi rabbi and posek
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