Rav amital biography of abraham
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Remembering Rav Yehuda Amital, founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion - opinion
Rav Yehuda Amital, born in 1924 in a small shtetl in Romania, lived through the revolutions of Jewish history in the 20th century.
Rav amital biography of abraham
He survived the concentration camps and fought in Israel’s War of Independence.
After the war, he studied and taught in premier yeshivot in Israel, ultimately marrying the granddaughter of the famed Torah scholar Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer.
By founding Yeshivat Har Etzion/Gush, he deeply shaped both the Israeli Torah world and the settler movement.
His life was a microcosm of 20th-century Jewish history, and he left an indelible impact on religious society in Israel.
Many Holocaust survivors were burdened by shame or guilt at having been selected for survival.
For Rav Amital, survival produced a sense of mission to fill the void left by so many who had perished. Conscious of this mission, he changed his family name from Klein to Amital, to encapsulate a verse in Micah which