Melech Schachter
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| Born | Marcus (Elimelech) Schachter April 7, 1913 RIETS |
Melech Schachter (April 7, 1913 - February 27, 2007) was a pulpit rabbi, coordinator of Jewish divorce, and instructor at Yeshiva University for over fifty years.
Life
Education
Schachter was born in Suceava, in the
Mossad HaRav Kook
.
Career
Schachter served many rabbinic roles over his career, including the pulpit rabbi in various communities such as
Death
Schachter died at the age of 93 on February 27, 2007. His son is Rabbi Hershel Schachter[7]
Legacy
Schachter would often relate at family gatherings the following story as told by his grandson Rabbi Shay Schachter:
When he was raising his son (
Bar Mitzvah. And he said there was a conservative rabbi who was the rabbi of the shul a few blocks away, and he saw a crowd of people standing outside. He asked them what's going on, and they said well Rav Melech Schachter is making a bar mitzvah for his son Hershel. So, he said "Oh, I'm friendly with Reb Melech!" So, he went in to wish Mazel Tov, and he gave my grandfather a bracha - which my grandfather used to repeat at every one of our family simchas - and he said that "I hope someday in the future Hershel won't be known as 'Rav Melech's son.' I hope you'll be known as 'Hershel's father.'"...
My grandfather used to tell us, "You guys don't understand your father is a walking Sefer Torah. It's true, although I was a pretty famous person... it was not long before nobody remembered who I was and I became known as "Hershel's father' There was nothing that gave me more pride... I hope that will come a time when they'll forget me and they'll forget your father and they'll only think about the grandchildren and they'll refer to all of us as the grandparents and the parents of all of you..."[8]
Published works
- HaMishnah HaBavli vehaYerushalmi, hashva'at nuschaoteha, Mossad HaRav Kook, Jerusalem, 1959
- Tziyun leNefesh Haya, a responsum regarding commissioning the writing of a Get via telephone, published in Kevod HaRav page 268 and Eretz HaTzvi page 271
- PRACTICAL HALAKHAH IN THE SPACE AGE, Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, Vol. 2, No. 1 (FALL 1959), pp. 155–163
- "Various Aspects of Adoption," The Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society vol. 4, no. 2 (Fall 1982): 93:115
- Lectures and articles on YUTorah.org
References
- ^ HARAV HAGAON R. MELECH SCHACHTER ZT”L
- ^ Hesped for Rabbi Melech Schachter
- ^ Iggerot Moshe, Even HaEzer vol. 4 Siman 98
- ^ Highlights of Hilchos Meuberes & Meinekes Chaveiro and Havchana - Even HaEzer Siman 13
- ^ Hesped for Rabbi Melech Schachter
- ^ Jachter, Chaim (2016). "An Irritating Name in a Get - Rav Melech Schachter's zt"l Resolution of a Tense Situation". Kol Torah. Halacha. 26. Torah Academy of Bergen County. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ Paid Notice: Deaths SCHACHTER, RABBI MELECH
- ^ Goldberg, Efrem (27 May 2020). "Behind the Bima (Episode #9 5.27.20) Special Guest: R' Shay Schachter". YouTube. Boca Raton Synagogue. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
Further reading and links
- Hesped for Rabbi Melech Schachter
- An Irritating Name in a Get - Rav Melech Schachter’s zt”l Resolution of a Tense Situation by Rabbi Chaim Jachter
- Rabbi Melech Schachter
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