Talk:Rogatchover Gaon

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A photo of the Rogatchover can be found on http://www.shmais.com/images/largepics/left_603.jpg I don't know if it can be put on wikipedia or not. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 03:11, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

The website is run by a fellow named Levi; I know him personaly. The photo itself is probably in the public domain. I've seen a better picture of the Rogatchover when I was a kid, I'll try to find it online. Daykart 15:21, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Here you are. http://www.rumbula.org/images/rabbi1.jpg Can anyone verify the following stories? Apparently, the Rogatchover had long hair because he felt physical pain when the barber tried to cut his hair. Or that he did not want to go without a Yarmulkah even for the five minutes of a haircut? Daykart 15:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

That image is clearly from a newspaper or something. JFW | T@lk 23:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rabbinic Ordination

Besides the Lubavitcher Rebbe; Rabbi Mordche Savitsky of Boston and a brother-in-law of Rabbi Shimon Shkop (his name escapes me at the moment; but he was a Rabbi in the United States and retired to Eretz Yisroel in old age, in the late 1950's) also received Semicha from the Rogetchover.

Can anyone bring a source that the Lubavitcher Rebbe received Semicha from the Rogetchover? Itzse 23:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

It is writen in Hayom Yom. in the begining there is a Biography of all the Rabeyim. in the bio of the Rebbe (not written by the Rebbe) it mentions that in 1925 he met the Rogatchover and received semicha from him Shlomke 00:05, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

This biography in Hayom Yom is a recent one; so where did the author of this biography get this information from? Is the semicha still extant? or does the Lubavitcher Rebbe refer to it somewhere?

The brother-in-law of Rabbi Shimon Shkop, was Rabbi Olshwang of Chicago who after becoming widowed retired to Eretz Yisroel in the late 1950's and died childless. Itzse 17:45, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I'l try to find out. also it seems there are some more people who recieved Semicha from the Rogatchover, one more is Rabbi Avrohom Elye Plotkin, the author of Birurei Halochos. in the Sefer there is a copy of the actual Semicha he received. Shlomke 01:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] URLs

Someone dumped some URLs into the article without comment. Turns out they link to images. Here the are:

I'd much rather we get a GFDL-licensed image to actually include in the article. JFW | T@lk 22:38, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

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