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Motol, 52'’ 19' N 25'’ 36' E, was in the Kobryn Uezd (district) of Grodno Gubernia (province) until the collapse of the Russian empire in 1917. Between WWI and WWII it was in the Drohiczyn district of the Polish Gubernia of Polesia. It is near the center of Polish Polesia which constituted an irregular rectangle of roughly 110 miles from east to west and 50 miles from north to south. In 1937, Motol had 4,297 inhabitants, of whom ...

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Chaim Azriel Weizmann (Hebrew: חיים ויצמן) (also: Chaijim W., Haim W.) (November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected May 16, 1948, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in Israel which eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science. Weizmann was born in a small village Motol (Motyli, now Motal') near Pinsk (Russian Empire, now in Belarus) and graduated in chemistry from the University of Fribourg in Swi ...

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Combining vast erudition in all fields of talmudic and rabbinic literature with a penetrating knowledge of the classical world, Lieberman opened new pathways to the understanding of the life, institutions, beliefs, and literary products of Jewish Palestine in the talmudic period. He made his debut in scholarly literature in 1929 with the publication of Al ha-Yerushalmi, in which he suggested ways of emending corruptions in the text of the Jerusalem (Palestinian) Talmud and offered variant readings to the text of the tractate of ...

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Born in Motol (now Motal'), near Pinsk, Belarus (then Russian empire), he studied at the yeshivot of Malch and Slobodka. While studying at the Slabodka Yeshiva, he befriended Rabbi Isaac Ruderman and Rabbi Isaac Hutner, both of whom would become leaders of great Rabbinical seminaries in America. In the 1920s he attended the University of Kiev, and, following a short stay in Palestine, continued his studies in France. In 1928 he settled in Jerusalem. He studied talmudic philology and Greek language and literature at the Hebrew University, whe ...

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Although deeply involved in the Seminary, Lieberman was personally a traditionally observant Jew, who would not pray in a synagogue with mixed pews. His daily schedule resembled that of a European rabbi of old, studying in his office to the wee hours of the morning. He studied in a chavrusa (learning partnership) with Prof.David Weiss Halivni, who eventually broke with the Seminary and went on to the department of Religion in Columbia University and to found the Union for Traditional Conservative Judaism. Lieberman's style in learning ...

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Saul Lieberman, Saul Lieberman - Biography, Saul Lieberman - Work, Saul Lieberman - The Agunah issue, Saul Lieberman - Personal Paradoxes, Saul Lieberman - Judith Lieberman

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In the 1950s the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly worked on the agunah issue. According to Jewish law when a couple gets divorced it is the man who has to present the woman with a bill of divorce, called a get. Without one the couple is still viewed as married, whether a civil divorce is obtained or not. In the past, if a woman was refused a divorce because a man would not give his wife a get, the rabbis of the local Jewish community were authorized, under certain circumstances, to force the husband to ...

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Saul Lieberman, Saul Lieberman - Biography, Saul Lieberman - Work, Saul Lieberman - The Agunah issue, Saul Lieberman - Personal Paradoxes, Saul Lieberman - Judith Lieberman

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