Simcha Bunim Alter (; April 6, 1898 – July 8, 1992), also known as the ''Lev Simcha'' (), after the works he authored, was the sixth

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of the

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dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1977 until his death. In 1980, he instituted '' Yerushalmi Yomi'', the daily learning of a page of the

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, similar to the renowned

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for the

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. He died on July 7, 1992 (7th of Tammuz 5752), and was interred in the cave of the Gerrer Rebbes in the

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cemetery.

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