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Rabbi Israël Meir Kagan (Hafetz Hayyim)

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Region: Empire russe

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One of the greatest decisors of modern Judaism, author of the Mishna Berura, the standard commentary on the Shulhan Arukh. His treatise Hafetz Hayyim on the ethics of speech (the prohibition of lashon hara) became a classic of rabbinic literature.

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