Judaica Letter by Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Tchebiner Rav, הגאון מטשעבין.

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R' Dov Berish Weidenfeld
(1881-1965), known as "The Tchebiner Rav" was the son of R. Yaakov Rabbi of Rimalov (Hrymailiv), author of Kochav MiYaakov, foremost Galician Torah scholar. From 1923, he served as rabbi of Tchebin (Trzebinia), Galicia, and already in his youth was renowned as a foremost Torah scholar and halachic authority in his generation, with exceptional proficiency in the entire Talmud and halachic literature. During his tenure in Tchebin, he established a prominent yeshiva, which attracted the finest, most astute students in Galicia. After the passing of R. Meir Shapiro, he joined the spiritual administration of the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva, together with the Gaon of Koziegłowy R' Aryeh Tzvi Frumer and Rebbe Moshenyu of Krakow. A chassid, he was attached to the Rebbes of the Belz and Ruzhin dynasties. During the Holocaust, he was exiled to Siberia then Bukhara, reaching Jerusalem in 1946, where he founded the Kochav MiYaakov - Tchebin yeshiva. The Tchebiner Rav was revered by all the leading rabbis of his times, rebbes and yeshiva deans, including R' Isser Zalman Meltzer, the Chazon Ish and R' Yitzchak Zev of Brisk. His teacher Rebbe Aharon of Belz would refer to him the gravest halachic questions. On his first Shavuot in Jerusalem, he went to pray in the Beit Midrash of the Imrei Emet, Rebbe of Ger, who declared upon seeing him: "Today we shall honor the Torah itself with the reading of the Ten Commandments".
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