Yitzchak Huberman
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Yitzchak Huberman | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | May 18, 1896 |
| Died | January 3, 1977 (aged 80) |
| Buried | Har Hamenuchot, Jerusalem |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
Rabbi Yitzchak HaCohen Huberman (6 Sivan 5656, May 18, 1896 – 13 Tevet 5737, January 3, 1977)[1] was a Hasidic kabbalist who served as head of the rabbinical court (av beit din) and rabbi of the Wetzlar displaced persons camp. He became known as "the Tzaddik of Ra'anana."
Huberman was born in Bilgoraj to Zlata Esther and Rabbi Asher Anshil Huberman. As a child, he was a diligent student, and by the age of 10 he began studying with the town's rabbi, Yaakov Mordechai Zilberman, who was a disciple of Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh of Trisk. In 1911, he left home to study at the yeshiva of Rabbi Shmuel Bornstein.[2] When World War I began, Huberman moved to Warsaw where he spent time in the Hasidic court of Ger under Avraham Mordechai Alter. He studied there with Rabbi Menachem Shachna Ryczywół, author of Responsa Shem Olam. He later studied under Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Glickson, son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik. In 1927, Huberman wrote a commentary on the Torah and Talmud.
Holocaust years
Huberman was in Warsaw at the outbreak of World War II. After several months under Nazi occupation, he moved to Ternogród, in the Soviet occupation zone. Eventually, he was deported to Siberia.[3] While there, to avoid having to work on Shabbat, he used an axe to sever one of his a fingertips. After the Holocaust, he ended up in Wetzlar displaced persons' camp in Germany, where he served in the rabbinate for six years. During his tenure, he worked to strengthen religious observance in the city and, and wrote halachic responsa permitting Holocaust surviving agunot to remarry.[4]
