Person · 5674–5757 AM · 1914 CE — 1997 CE
The Divrei Emunah—Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kohn of Toldos Aharon רבי אברהם יצחק כהן—דברי אמונה
founder of the Toldos Aharon court; son-in-law of Rabbi Aharon Roth
He was born on 6 Tevet 1914 in Safed; as a child he was taken to Hungary. In 1939 he married Yenta, daughter of Rabbi Aharon Roth, and in 1940 came with his father-in-law to Erets Yisrael.
After his father-in-law's death in 1947 most of the chasidim followed him, and he named the court Toldos Aharon—after his father-in-law. He led it about fifty years from Meah Shearim; under him the court set up a quarter in Beit Shemesh.
His books are the Divrei Emunah, the Asifat Michtavim and the Kuntres Kavanat ha-Tefillah. He died on 27 Kislev 1996, on the third light of Chanukah.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The Divrei Emunah — the book he is named by
Scholarship
- The register of the Jerusalem courts — 6 Tevet 1914, the marriage in 1939, and 27 Kislev 1996
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