Person · 5612–5668 AM · 1852 CE — 1908 CE
Rabbi Meir Rosenbaum of Kretchnif רבי מאיר ראזענבוים מקרעטשניף
founder of the Kretchnif court; son of Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna
Son of Rabbi Mordechai Leifer of Nadvorna. He was born on 18 Tevet 1852; he was the third rebbe of Nadvorna, and then moved the court to Kretchnif, by which he is named.
He changed the family name from Leifer to Rosenbaum in the years of the Austrian wars, to avoid conscription; under that name the house goes to this day. He was married to Shifra, daughter of Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tirer.
He published no books of his own: his teaching entered the Raza d'Shabbos, his son's book. He died on 30 Sivan 1908 and is buried in Kretchnif.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The Raza d'Shabbos—his son's book, which carries his teaching too — that he published no books of his own
Scholarship
- The register of the Nadvorna and Kretchnif houses — 18 Tevet 1852, his descent from Rabbi Mordechai, and the change of the family name
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