Rabbi Sholom Shachne Zohn (1910–2012) former

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of the

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, who later lived in

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Biography

Shachne was born near

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. When he was a young child, he moved with his family to the United States. When he was 13 years of age he began to receive religious training in the Mordechai Rosenblatt Talmud Torah while also attending public school on the East Side of

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. His father was very busy with his

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business, and so he entrusted Rabbi

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with the religious upbringing of young Shachna. Rabbi Herman eventually convinced the lad to study at the Yeshiva in

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where a young

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also studied at Rabbi Herman's behest. In his youth, he briefly studied

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and before traveling to Europe to study under Rabbi

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in the

in Kaminetz and then in Mir Yeshiva. While in Europe, he married Liba Gulevsky. Before returning to America, Rabbi Zohn developed a close student relationship with the Jewish rabbinical leader of the time, Rabbi

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. Upon returning to America in anticipation of the

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, he assumed a position in

(in

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as a professor of Talmud, eventually becoming one of the school's deans. Eventually, Rabbi Zohn retired from his position in Torah Vodaas to immigrate to Israel. There, Rabbi Schachne Zohn headed for forty years, Kollel Kodshim V'Taharos, a study group for adult men in

which analyzed sacrificial laws in a Talmudic context. He lived in the

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neighborhood of Jerusalem. In the summer of 2008, Rabbi Shachna Zohn reported that he saw his former teacher Rabbi

(with whom he studied Torah in pre-

Europe) in a dream and was told that the ''Geulah'' (Hebrew for

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) is imminent. This fact was publicized by Rabbi Tzvi Mayer Zilberberg and was later confirmed by

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Magazine. Rabbi Zohn died on December 20, 2012 (8

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, 5773). Rabbi Shachne Zohn's son, Rabbi Elchonon Zohn, is the Founder and Director of the

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of the Rabbinical Council of

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since 1981.

Works

*Kuntres Kavod Torah *Pirkei Teshuva Ugeula
Ateres Yaakovon Amazon

References

External links

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Vaad Harabonim of Queens
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