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Szlomo Zalman Lipszyc (1765 
He studied
Poznań
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– 1839 Warsaw
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), also known as Salomon Zalman Pozner as well as the Chemdas Shlomo from the title of the works he authored, was a prominent Orthodox
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rabbi, and first Chief Rabbi
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of Warsaw.
He studied Torah
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in his hometown of Poznań until 1804. Later, material conditions forced him to accept the position of Rabbi of Nasielsk
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, where he founded a yeshiva
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. In 1819 he became Rabbi of the Praga
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district of Warsaw, and in 1821 he was elected the first Chief Rabbi of Warsaw.
As chief rabbi, he did not become involved in the disputes of Misnagdim
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with the Hasidim
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. He opposed assimilation, condemning the Haskala
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's Szkoła Rabinów w Warszawie (Warsaw Rabbinical School
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), and the entry of Jews to the National Guard
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in 1831 (due to the necessary condition of shaving their beards and payot
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).
Many Polish rabbis studied in his Warsaw yeshiva. He was a prominent halakhic
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authority and the author of three works entitled Chemdas Shlomo: rabbinical responsa (1839), novellae In Roman law, a novel (, "new decree"; ) is a new decree or edict, in other words a new law. The term was used from the fourth century AD onwards and was specifically used for laws issued after the publishing of the ''Codex Theodosianus'' in 438 and ...
to several Talmudic treatises (vol. 1-3, 1851–1892) and sermons
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(1890). He carried on a scientific correspondence with Rabbi Akiva Eger
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and Rabbi Jacob of Lissa.
He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw where an ohel was erected above his grave.
Grandson Mojżesz Lipszyc was a rabbi in Golub-Dobrzyń
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Golub-Dobrzyń was established on May 5, 1951 through me ...
, and then in Łódź
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, where his great-grandson, Natan Lipszyc, also held rabbinical functions.
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1765 births 1839 deaths 19th-century Polish rabbis Clergy from Poznań {{Authority control