Moshe Aryeh Freund

Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund (1894^[1] – 1996) was the Chief Rabbi (av beis din) of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem. He wrote a famous book called Ateres Yehoshua, and he himself was also referred to with this name occasionally. He was a Satmar chossid.

He was born in 1904 in the Hungarian town of Honiad^{[citation needed]}, where his father, Rabbi Yisroel Freund, served as av beis din. His mother, Soroh, was a daughter of Rabbi Zeev Goldberger, the Rov of Honiad. He was a descendant of the Remo, the Maharshal, the Shach, and the Beis Yosef.

At the age of 16 he married with the daughter of Reb Boruch Goldberger, who was distant family.

Before the Second World War broke out, he served as rosh yeshiva in the Hungarian town of Sǎtmar (now Satu Mare, Romania). The Nazis arrested him and his entire family in 1944. The family was deported to Auschwitz, where only Reb Moshe Aryeh survived; his wife and all of his nine children died there at the hands of the Nazis.

In 1951 he moved to Jerusalem, where he became the Rov of the Satmar community there. In 1979, he was elected av beis din of the Edah HaChareidis, a position which he fulfilled until his death.

After his death, he was succeeded by Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky as av beis din (Gaavad) and Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov Fisher as Raavad. His yahrzeit is on the 20th of Elul.

References

1. ^ Elul - Famous Rabbis Yarzheits

External links

• Zichru Toras Moshe Aryeh: Divrei Torah and Masios from Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund

See also: Freund

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Name	Freund, Moshe Aryeh
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Date of birth	1894
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Date of death	1996
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