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Article: Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Shach dies, a giant of fervently Orthodox Jewry
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- November 5, 2001
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Landau, David
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
11-05-2001
JERUSALEM, Nov. 4 (JTA) -- "We won't be seeing his likes again" is the kind
of elegaic hyperbole one so often hears at funerals and reads in
obituaries. Rarely is it a literal truth.
In the case of Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Shach, who died early last Friday
and was buried the same day in Bnei Brak -- his age estimated at anywhere
from 103 to 108 -- the statement is indeed fact.
Shach's uniqueness lay not in his learning or his saintliness. These were
much admired in fervently Orthodox circles, but so are the learning and
saintliness of other rabbis, living and dead.
Rather, Shach's uniqueness lay in the authority he wielded.
A "late bloomer," Shach ...
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