Yisrael Meir (Kagan) Poupko (Dziatłava, 1838 – Radun', 1933), known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim, was an influential Eastern European rabbi of the Musar movement , a Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Jewish life. His surname, Poupko, is not widely known.
Rabbi Kagan was born in Zhetl, Hrodno Guberniya, today's Belarus, on February 6, 1838, and died in Radun', Wilno Voivodship, Poland (pop. 250), tod...
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Yisrael Meir (Kagan) Poupko (Dziatłava, 1838 – Radun', 1933), known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim, was an influential Eastern European rabbi of the Musar movement , a Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Jewish life. His surname, Poupko, is not widely known.
Rabbi Kagan was born in Zhetl, Hrodno Guberniya, today's Belarus, on February 6, 1838, and died in Radun', Wilno Voivodship, Poland (pop. 250), today's Belarus, on September 15, 1933. When Kagan was ten years old, his father died. His mother moved the family to Vilnius in order to continue her son's education. While in Vilnius, Kagan became a student of Rabbi Jacob Barit. Kagan's mother later re-married (Poupko) and moved to Raduń. At 17, he married the daughter of his stepfather, and settled in Raduń.
He served as the town rabbi of Raduń for a short period. He then resigned from this position to establish the yeshiva in Raduń, which eventually became world famous. By all accounts he was...
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