Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (; 1883 – 26 September 1954) was a

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rabbi and

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(dean) of

Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva (, lit., "Gate of Heaven") is an Ashkenazi yeshiva in Jerusalem dedicated to the study of the kabbalistic teachings of the Arizal (Rabbi Isaac Luria). It is famous for its student body of advanced kabbalists — many ...

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, which he helped found in 1906. He was the father of the

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(decider of Jewish legal issues)

Shlomo Zalman Auerbach Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (; July 20, 1910 – February 20, 1995) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem neighborhood Ramat Shlomo is named after Auerbach. Biography Auerbach was ...

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His father was Avraham Dov Auerbach, the

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. Auerbach married Tzivya, the daughter of Shlomo Zalman Porush, a rabbi who founded the Jerusalem neighborhood of

Sha'arei Hesed Sha'arei Hesed (also Sha'arei Chessed) (, lit. ''Gates of Loving-kindness'') is a neighborhood in central Jerusalem, bordering Rehavia, Nahlaot and Kiryat Wolfson. History One of the founders of the neighborhood was Yoel Moshe Salomon, who al ...

. Their first son, the authority on Jewish law

, was the first child born in Sha'arei Hesed. The family lived in poverty. He wrote a Torah commentary called ''Chacham Lev''. He died on 26 September 1954 (28

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5714), a month after having a heart attack. Chaim Yehuda Leib and Tzivia Auerbach graves

Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva

Auerbach and his friend Shimon Tzvi Horowitz opened a yeshiva for the study of the kabbalah as interpreted by the 16th century rabbi

Isaac Luria Isaac ben Solomon Ashkenazi Luria (; #FINE_2003, Fine 2003, p24/ref>July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh or Arizal, was a leading rabbi and Jewish mysticism, Jewish mystic in the community of Saf ...

in the Old City of Jerusalem, with a

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, a '' yeshiva ketana'', a ''

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'', and a

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for married students. Auerbach was rosh yeshiva of Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva from 1906 until his death in 1954 and was succeeded in the post by two of his sons, first Eliezer Auerbach was rosh yeshiva and then Refoel Dovid Auerbach. His eldest son,

, served as president of the yeshiva; after his death, his son,

Shmuel Auerbach Shmuel Auerbach (; September 21, 1931 – February 24, 2018) was a Haredi rabbi in Jerusalem. He was considered a leader in the non-Hasidic Haredi community in Israel. His followers formed a political organisation known as the Jerusalem Faction. ...

, succeeded him.

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