Shlomo Zalman Porush
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Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Porush, (Hebrew: שלמה זלמן פרוש), was born in Babruysk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) in 1850 to his father Rabbi (d. 1866) and mother Leah (d. 1900). He died in Jerusalem in 1898 and is buried on the Mount of Olives.
Biography[]
He arrived in Eretz Yisroel as a boy in 1860 together with his parents and a brother Gershon and a sister. As a Jerusalem community leader of the Yishuv haYashan he founded the neighborhood of Shaarei Chesed and created the Shaarei Chesed Free-Loan Fund, which he directed on a voluntary basis for 18 years.
Some of his children were also leaders of the Yishuv haYashan. His children were: Rabbi , Rabbi , Rabbi , Rabbi Eliezer Lipa (Lipman) Porush, Rabbi Liber Mordechai Porush. A daughter married his brother Gershon's son Rabbi Menachem Mendel Porush. Another daughter Tzivia married Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach and their son was Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach who was named after him.
- 1850 births
- 1898 deaths
- People from Babruysk
- Belarusian Orthodox rabbis
- 19th-century rabbis
- Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire
- Ashkenazi rabbis in Ottoman Palestine
- Belarusian people stubs
- European rabbi stubs