Motal' - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Motal': Encyclopedia Ii - Motal' - Location
Motol, 52'’ 19' N 25'’ 36' E, was in the Kobryn Uezd (district) of Grodno Gubernia (province) until the collapse of the Russian empir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann (Hebrew: חיים ויצמן) (also: Chaijim W., Haim W.) (November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) chemist, statesm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saul Lieberman: Encyclopedia Ii - Saul Lieberman - Work
Combining vast erudition in all fields of talmudic and rabbinic literature with a penetrating knowledge of the classical world, Lieberman...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saul Lieberman: Encyclopedia Ii - Saul Lieberman - Biography
Born in Motol (now Motal'), near Pinsk, Belarus (then Russian empire), he studied at the yeshivot of Malch and Slobodka. While studying a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saul Lieberman: Encyclopedia Ii - Saul Lieberman - Personal Paradoxes
Although deeply involved in the Seminary, Lieberman was personally a traditionally observant Jew, who would not pray in a synagogue with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saul Lieberman: Encyclopedia Ii - Saul Lieberman - The Agunah Issue
In the 1950s the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly worked on the agunah issue. According to Jewish law when a couple gets divor...   » Read the article