Religionמנחם מנדל כשר

Menachem Mendel Kasher

Menachem Mendel Kasher was a Warsaw-born Israeli rabbi and author known for Torah Sheleimah, a multi-volume encyclopedic work on the Torah.

1895 to 1983Torah SheleimahFounding the Sfas Emes YeshivaPublishing the Rogatchover's writingsRulings on the date line

Born: 7 March 1895, Warsaw
Died: 3 November 1983, Jerusalem
Occupation: rabbi, translator, bibliographer

Menachem Mendel Kasher was born in 1895 in Warsaw

Kasher was born in Warsaw in 1895. His father was Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz. At 19 he began editing Degel HaTorah, a Torah periodical of Agudath Israel in Poland.

In 1913 he married Esther Feierman. He settled in Warta, where Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzki ordained him.

In 1924 he moved to the Land of Israel at the request of the Ger Rebbe. He founded the Sfas Emes Yeshiva and led it for its first two years. He later headed the effort to bring the Ger Rebbe to the Land of Israel after World War II began.

The first volume of Torah Sheleimah appeared in Jerusalem in 1927. He drove the Torah journal Noam and published the writings of Rabbi Joseph Rosen. He also wrote on halakhic questions such as the international date line.

He received the Israel Prize in 1963 and an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University. The 38th volume of Torah Sheleimah came out in 1983, the year he died. His grandson is the philosopher Asa Kasher.