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| | Yampol, Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Rabbi Landau mentions him in Tslach (Tractate Beitzah, Chapter 1, page 5b), "Over forty years ago the brilliant Rabbi Yosef of Yampol asked..." Besides his greatness in Torah and Chassidut, he was a religious philosopher and an expert on Maimonides' "Guide to the Perplexed," and other works. |
 | | In 5505 (1745), Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, aged 30, was appointed Head of the Rabbinical Court of Yampol. |
 | | Rabbi Yechezkel's second son, Rabbi Shmuel Landau, who succeeded him in Prague explains his father's system in his introduction to 'Doresh Zion.' The great and straightforward men devote their principal energies to extracting the Halacha from each topic and to resolve apparent contradictions. |
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