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22: 229:. In 1941, at the age of 71, Eigis was murdered by the Nazis. The date of his death in uncertain. There is testimony that he was killed on the 15th day of Elul (September 7); other reports state that he was killed 6 weeks earlier. The place of his death is also uncertain. Some reports indicate that he was killed in Vilna, while other reports indicate that he was first taken to 188:
During the First World War Grodzinski was forced to flee Vilna and Eigis replaced him until he was able to return. In an argument over the identity of the government-appointed rabbi of Vilna, Eigis opposed the candidate who supported the local Zionists, siding instead with the candidate supported by
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organization. In 1923 Eigis joined other Polish and Lithuanian rabbis and signed a proclamation supporting Mizrachi; in 1929 he stopped supporting the Mizrachi because of their support for an alternate candidate (Yitzchak Rubinstein from the earlier dispute, but this time for a different position)
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In 1898, at the age of 34, Chanoch received an appointment as a rabbi in Vilna, which he held until his death. Throughout his career he maintained a close, personal relationship with the leader of the ultra-orthodox community in Vilna, Rabbi
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large numbers of yeshiva students streamed into Vilna from across Lithuania. Eigis worked in support of these students, and many checks signed by him were sent by the
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in 1863. His father, Simcha Reuven, was a businessman and a scholar, the author of a number of works of Jewish thought. Chanoch was educated in Russian,
226: 158: 86: 355: 350: 58: 39: 65: 129:; 1863–1941) was a prominent Lithuanian rabbi in the first half of the 20th century. He was one of the leading rabbis of 72: 345: 105: 210:(emigration of Jews to Palestine) and in 1935 he was one of the founders of the ultra-orthodox department of the 54: 43: 314: 360: 198: 177:
and the two jointly signed numerous petitions, letters and announcements. The two rabbis jointly founded a
320: 222: 181:– a yeshiva for advanced rabbinic scholars who studied on their own –attended by many of the best 79: 32: 296: 174: 340: 335: 211: 8: 194: 202: 218: 166: 122: 230: 272: 234: 329: 258: 154: 134: 21: 263: 254: 138: 130: 276: 253:. The work deals with issues related to the tractates of Seder 207: 206:
for the rabbinate of Vilna. He continued to work in support of
182: 169:. He married Hindy, the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel Dibretinsky. 162: 249:, was added as an appendix to his father-in-law's work 319:
Minchas Chanoch as part of Olat Shmuel vol 1 at site
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