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Portal Diskussion:Shmuel Salant
[[Image:Shmuel Salant.jpg|thumb|200px|Rabbi Shmuel Salant]]
[[Image:Shmuel Salant stamp.JPG|thumb|150px|Rabbi [[Shmuel Salant ]] depicted on an Israeli stamp, 2006]]

'''Shmuel Salant''' ([[January 2]], [[1816]] &ndash; [[August 16]], [[1909]]) served as the [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazic]] [[Chief Rabbi]] of [[Jerusalem]] and was a renowned [[Talmud]]ist and [[Torah]] scholar.

(contracted; show full)avelled to [[Germany]], [[Amsterdam]], and [[London]] to collect funds. Upon his return to Jerusalem, he succeeded in ensuring that his contributions were equally divided between the [[Sephardim]] and Ashkenazim. He also collected donations for the building of the [[Hurva Synagogue|Beis Yaakov Synagogue]] in Jerusalem. In 1871 he succeeded Rabbi [[Meir Auerbach]] as chief rabbi of the Ashkenazim.<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04E3D6173EE733A25754C1A96E9C946897D6CF</ref>


In 1871, a time of universal poverty and hardship, Rabbi Salant founded the Rabbi Meir Baal Haneis Salant charity to provide for all of Israel's poor and impoverished, Sefardi and Ashekanzai alike. In 1888 Rabbi Salant's eyesight began to fail, and a few years later he became blind. This did not stop his extensive activity in communal affairs. In 1900, however, he requested an assistant; Rabbi [[Elijah David Rabinowitz-Teomim]] of Russia was selected for the position, however, Rabbi Rabinowitz-Teomim predeceased Rabbi Salant.

(contracted; show full)[[Category:Jews in Ottoman and British Palestine|Salant, Shmuel]]
[[Category:Burials at the Mount of Olives|Salant, Shmuel]]

[[he:שמואל סלנט]]
[[ru:Шмуэль Салант]]

==External links==
*[http://rmbhsalant.com/ Rabbi Meir Baal Haneis Salant charity]