What is Elazar Shach?
Elazar Menachem Man Shach (Hebrew: אלעזר מנחם מן שך, Elazar Shach; January 1, 1899 O.S. – November 2, 2001) was a [[Lithuania]]-born Israeli rabbi and posek. He was born in [[Vabalnink]]as (Vaboilnik in [[Yiddish]]), [[Lithuania]], but he fled to Palestine for fear of the Holocaust. Rabbi-Shach was thought to be a very leading authority in Haredi Jewish society.<ref name=BBC021101>{{cite news| url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1634077.stm | work=BBC | title=Influential Israeli rabbi dies at 103|date=November 2, 2001|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref><ref name=JTA21101>{{cite news| url=https://www.jta.org/2001/11/02/lifestyle/rabbi-shach-giant-of-fervently-orthodox-jewry-dies | work=JTA | title=Rabbi Shach, giant of fervently Orthodox Jewry, dies| author=David Landau|author2=Julie Wiener| date=November 2, 2001 | access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shach, Rabbi}} {{Biography-stub}} [[Category:Israeli rabbis]] [[Category:Refugees from Nazism]] [[Category:Israeli centenarians]] [[Category:Jewish centenarians]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]]