Uzi Kalchheim Aderet Emuna , Jerusalem, 1976 Dedicated and signed by the rabbi

Uzi Kalchheim Aderet Emuna , Jerusalem, 1976 Dedicated and signed by the rabbi

Dedicated to Moshe Shamir

434 pages

16 x 23.5 cm.

800 grams

Fine condition

Rabbi Uzi Kalchheim ( 17 February 1935 , 14 Adar I, 5655 - April 20, 1994 , 9th Iyar 5754 ) was Rabbi Emunah at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav and author of books on Jewish thought .

Born in Haifa to Eda nee Bekerman and Moshe, who immigrated to Israel and established a kosher restaurant in Haifa for city workers. The father was active in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement and traveled on its behalf to the United States to raise money in 1939. In the absence of the father, and following Arab riots, the family moved from Haifa to Tel Aviv, and at the end of that year the Second World War broke out, causing Father Moshe to stay in the United States until the end of the war. The bombing of the Italian air force on Tel Aviv passed through Jerusalem .

He studied at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in Kfar HaRo'a , at the Mizrachi High School (later in high school ) and at the Klesk Yeshiva ( Yeshiva of the South ), where he was influenced by Rabbi Elimelech Bar Shaul . At the end of the winter of 1954 , with the encouragement of Rabbi Bar-Shaul, he moved to Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav in Jerusalem, and according to his friend, Rabbi Ya'akov Filber , Kalchaim was "one of the first Bnei Akiva to know Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda , The way to Merkaz HaRav, and those who restored it to its former glory and rebuilt the Merkaz Harav yeshiva and made it one of the most important Torah centers in the Jewish people. " [1] Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach , Rabbi Yitzchak Arieli , Rabbi Avraham Elkana Shapira And Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv .

Later he studied at the Harry Fischel Institute in Jerusalem (today the Ariel Institute ) and received ordination from Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach . In 1970 , the family moved to the settlement of Even Shmuel in the south, where he served as the head of Kollel and the rabbi of the settlement [2] . After years he returned to Jerusalem, settled in Givat Shaul and served as rabbi of a synagogue in the neighborhood until his death.

Rabbi Kalchheim has been involved in education and teaching for more than thirty years. He taught at Midreshet Noam in Pardes Hannah , at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh , at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav, at the Jerusalem College and at the Harry Fischel Institute. He was one of the founders of Orot Israel College and one of the founders of the Eretz Hemdah Institute. In the last four years of his life, he worked to strengthen ties with Jewish communities in Eastern Europe on behalf of the Ministry of Religious Affairs , especially the Jews of the Czech Republic . His son, Rabbi Menachem Kalchaim, was later appointed as the deputy chief rabbi of the Czech Republic.

Moshe Shamir ( September 15, 1921 - August 2, 2004 ) was a writer , children's writer, playwright , publicist , literary critic , drama lecturer, editor of literary sections in the press The editor of periodicals and an Israeli public figure, one of the most important Israeli writers of the modern era , a member of the ninth Knesset (within the framework of the Likud People 's Party ) and one of the founders of the Tehiyyah party .