Meir Dan Plotzky

Meir Dan Plotsky (or Plotski) (1866 - March 27, 1928) was a Talmudic scholar who authored the Kli Chemdah, a commentary on the Torah.^[1] He also authored the Chemdas Shlomo on Orach Chayim.^[2]

Plotsky was the son of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Ber Plotzker of Kutno, who was first a follower of Rav Chanoch Henich of Alexander, but who then became a follower of the Sfas Emes of Ger. At the age of nine, Plotsky was sent to learn in the yeshiva of Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Wacks, the Nefesh Chayah, in Kalish. Shortly before his Bar Mitzvah, he became a discple of Rav Avraham Bonsztain of Sochatchov, known as the Avnei Nezer, whom he considered his lifelong rebbe muvhak (primary Torah teacher).^[2]

Plotsky married at the age of 15 and spent the next 10 years in Dvohrt with his in-laws. In 1891, he became Rav in Dvohrt. Later he helped expose the forged Yerushalmi on Kodshim, claimed to be discovered by Shlomo Yehuda Friedlander, who also claimed he was a Sefardi named Shlomo Yehuda Algazi. At the age of 36, he published his work on the Sefer Hamitzvos of Maimonides, called Chemdas Yisrael. In 1918, he became Rav of Ostrov-Mozbaisk in eastern Poland. He was voted chairman of Agudas Harabbanim of Poland, a prelude to Agudat Israel. At the age of 60, he left the rabbinate to head a large yeshiva in Warsaw, known simply as the Mesivta.^[2]

References

1. ^ Parshas Vayechi: God's Judgement of Our Intentions
2. ^ ^{a b c} Chinuch.org

External links

• English translation of the Kli Chemdah
• Works by or about Meir Dan Plotzky in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Plotzky, Meir Don
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Date of birth	1867
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Date of death	1928
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