| Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman | |
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| Position | Rosh Yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Ponevezh Yeshiva |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Israel |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Residence | Bnei Brak, Israel |
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, also Shtainman or Steinman, (born 1912), is a prominent Haredi rabbi currently living in Bnei Brak, Israel.[1]
He belongs to the Lithuanian[1] branch of Judaism, and heads a division of the famed Ponevezh Yeshiva (rosh yeshiva of Ponovezh Litze'irim).[2] He was formerly the Rosh Kollel ("head") of the Ponevezh Kollel. He is a backer of the Kupat Ha'ir charitable organization. His scholarly works on the Talmud were originally published anonymously under the name Ayelet HaShachar (alluding to his initials in Hebrew, as well as the "morning star" of Psalms 22). He married Tamar (Tema) Kornfeld (d. 2002), a descendant of Moshe Chaim Rotenberg of Khentshin.
In 1955, the Ponevezher Rav, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, opened the Yeshivah Ketanah of Ponevezh, and Steinman was asked to be the Rosh Yeshivah together with Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz.[3]
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Along with Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, Shteinman is a leader of the Haredi Degel HaTorah political party. He therefore exerts much political power in the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) political coalition. UTJ is an alliance of Degel HaTorah and the Agudat Israel party. He was close with the Gerrer Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, a major supporter of Agudat Israel.
Shteinman undertook to visit key Haredi communities outside of Israel when he was in his nineties. In 2005 he visited a number of cities in North America with significant Haredi populations or institutions, such as in Brooklyn, New York and Passaic, New Jersey, meeting with many prominent American Haredi rabbis including Rabbi Aharon Schechter of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin.
He travelled to the Jewish community of Los Angeles on Lag Ba'omer in 2006 during a trip to America. Over five thousand Orthodox Jews attended the gathering. He planned to travel together with the Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter the Gerrer Rebbe to Montreal in May 2006, but they delayed their trip to avoid protests from the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta. After visiting Montreal, the rabbis parted ways. The Gerrer Rebbe continued to New York and then returned to Jerusalem, while Shteinman went on to visit the Jewish communities in several South American cities, including Mexico City and Buenos Aires. In May 2007 Steinman visited France, then England, where he addressed large gatherings in Manchester and Gateshead. In June 2010 Shteinman visited the Yeshiva Beis Zion in Berlin to recognize and encourage the again developing Jewish life in the city. From Berlin he visited the Gibraltar Jewish community.
Ayeles HaShachar al HaTorah
Ayeles HaShachar on Shas
Chessed Umishpat on Maseches Sanhedrin [1]
Yimaleh Pi Tehilasecha 1 2 - Mussar talks
Mipekudecha Esbonain - Talks on Yomim Noraim
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