Moshe Aryeh Freund (; 1894–1996) was a rabbi and the '' av beis din'' of the

Edah HaChareidis The Charedi Community of Jerusalem (, ''haEdah haCharedit'', Ashkenazi pronunciation: ''ho-Aideh HaCharaidis'' or ''ho-Eido ha-Chareidis''; "Community of God-Fearers") is a large Haredi Jewish communal organization based in Jerusalem. It has s ...

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. He wrote a book called ''Ateres Yehoshua'', a name by which he himself was occasionally called. He was a

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. He was born in 1904 in the Hungarian town of Honiad, where his father, Yisroel Freund, was '' av beis din''. His mother was named Soroh. At age 18 he married a distant relative. Before the

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he was

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in the Hungarian town of Sǎtmar (now Satu Mare,

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). The Nazis arrested him and his entire family in 1944. The family was deported to

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, where only Freund survived; his wife and all of his nine children were killed by the Nazis. In 1951 he moved to Jerusalem where in 1979, he was elected ''av beis din'' of the Edah HaChareidis, a position which he held until his death.

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''Zichru Toras Moshe Aryeh'': Divrei Torah and Masios from Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund
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