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Gershon Henokh Leiner de Radzyn

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Region: Radzyń Podlaski, Pologne

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Grandson of Mordekhai Yosef Leiner (Izbica), first « rebbe of Radzyn ». Torah scholar, chemist and linguist, he undertook to restore the tekhelet (blue thread of the tsitsit): after a visit to the zoological station in Naples, he identified the hilazon with the cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and launched a dye works. Prolific author on halakha and Hasidic thought.

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