Chazon Ish

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Chazon Ish was the honorific title of Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, a leading 20th-century Haredi halachic authority and influential architect of the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel.

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Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz 0

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Haredi Jew
Jewish religious leader
human
posek
rabbi
alsoKnownAs Chazon Ish NERFINISHED
approach non-Zionist Haredi ideology
basedIn Bnei Brak NERFINISHED
birthName Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz NERFINISHED
burialPlace Bnei Brak NERFINISHED
countryOfBirth Russian Empire
countryOfCitizenship Israel
Poland
countryOfDeath Israel NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1878
dateOfDeath 1953
denomination Orthodox Judaism NERFINISHED
education traditional yeshiva education
era 20th century
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Halakha NERFINISHED
Jewish law
Talmud NERFINISHED
honorificTitleOf Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz NERFINISHED
influenced Ben-Gurion–Haredi relations
Bnei Brak Haredi community NERFINISHED
Haredi Judaism in Israel
Israeli yeshiva world
knownFor establishing Bnei Brak as a Haredi center
halachic rulings
leadership of Haredi community in Israel
stringent halachic positions
languageOfWork Hebrew
movement Haredi Judaism NERFINISHED
notableWork Chazon Ish NERFINISHED
occupation Talmudic scholar
halachic authority
posek
rabbi
placeOfBirth Congress Poland NERFINISHED
Kossów Lacki NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Bnei Brak NERFINISHED
rabbinicRole de facto leader of Haredi Jewry in Israel
relative Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky NERFINISHED
religion Judaism
residence Bnei Brak NERFINISHED
Vilnius NERFINISHED
sibling Meir Karelitz NERFINISHED
spouse Batia Karelitz NERFINISHED

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Rabbi Shabbetai HaKohen citedBy Chazon Ish