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Elimelech Biderman

Elimelech Biderman is a Hasidic rabbi and lecturer from Bnei Brak, known as Reb Meilech, who teaches faith and trust in God to thousands of students.

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Occupation: rabbi
Education: Ponevezh Yeshiva

Elimelech Biderman was born in 1967 in Bnei Brak

Avraham Elimelech Biderman was born in Bnei Brak in 1967. His father is Rabbi Alter Elazar Menachem Biderman, the Lelov Rebbe of Bnei Brak. He was named after Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Perlow, the Rebbe of Karlin.

He studied at the Ponevezh Yeshiva. He married the daughter of Rabbi Nosson Dovid Rosenbaum, the Rebbe of Zutska, and lives in Bnei Brak.

In the early 2000s he began holding Shabbat night gatherings at his home and a weekly Friday night lesson for young Hasidic men. In the late 2000s he was invited to preach in synagogues and yeshivas, and a circle of students formed around him. His lessons on faith and trust in God are broadcast on the Kol Halashon system.

He holds a yearly Shabbat of Unity for his students in Meron and a yearly Lag BaOmer bonfire lighting attended by tens of thousands. He founded Be'er HaSimcha, an organization that helps widows and orphans. His talks are printed weekly as Torah Wellsprings in several languages.