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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Chazon Ish canonical 5

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instanceOf Haredi Jew
Jewish religious leader
human
posek
rabbi
alsoKnownAs Chazon Ish
approach non-Zionist Haredi ideology
basedIn Bnei Brak
birthName Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz
burialPlace Bnei Brak
countryOfBirth Russian Empire
countryOfCitizenship Israel
Poland
countryOfDeath Israel
dateOfBirth 1878
dateOfDeath 1953
denomination Orthodox Judaism
education traditional yeshiva education
era 20th century
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews
fieldOfWork Halakha
Jewish law
Talmud
honorificTitleOf Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz
influenced Ben-Gurion–Haredi relations
Bnei Brak Haredi community
linked to: Haredi Jews

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
linked to: Haredi Jews
notableWork Chazon Ish
occupation Talmudic scholar
halachic authority
posek
rabbi
placeOfBirth Congress Poland
Kossów Lacki
placeOfDeath Bnei Brak
rabbinicRole de facto leader of Haredi Jewry in Israel
relative Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky
religion Judaism
residence Bnei Brak
Vilnius
sibling Meir Karelitz
spouse Batia Karelitz

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Rabbi Shabbetai HaKohen citedBy Chazon Ish
Mitnagdic Judaism keyFigure Chazon Ish
Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz alsoKnownAs Chazon Ish
subject linked to: Chazon Ish
Chazon Ish notableWork Chazon Ish