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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]]

Rabbi '''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.

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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 [[Ashkenazi]] 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, 
heRabbi Salant requested an assistant;. Rabbi [[Elijah David Rabinowitz-Teomim]], a world renowned rabbi and author, had just arrived in iIsrael in 1900 from Russiaa.  He was immediately selected for the position. However, Rabbi Rabinowitz-Teomim predeceased Rabbi Salant in 1905.

Rabbi Salant and Rabbi [[Meir Aurbach]] highly supported the [[Balady citron]] which was cultivated at the [[Arab]]ic village of ''Um el-Faum'', since it was considered by them as the most kosher.<ref>[http://www.jafgifts.com/esrog/Pri_Etz_Hadar_Jerusalem.pdf Kuntres Pri Etz Hadar (Jerusalem תרל"ח)]</ref> 

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[[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]