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Pinchas Menachem Alter | |
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Title | Gerrer Rebbe |
Personal | |
Born | |
Died | March 7, 1996 | (aged 69)
Religion | Judaism |
Spouse | Tzipora Alter |
Children | Esther Lipl Moshe Betzalel Alter Shaul Alter Yehuda Aryeh Leyb Alter Yitzchak Dovid Alter Yaakov Meir Alter Daniel Chaim Alter |
Parent(s) | Avraham Mordechai Alter Feyge Mintshe Biderman |
Jewish leader | |
Predecessor | Simcha Bunim Alter |
Successor | Yaakov Aryeh Alter |
Began | 7 July 1992 |
Ended | 7 March 1996 |
Buried | 7 March 1996 Sfas Emes Yeshiva, Jerusalem |
Dynasty | Ger |
Pinchas Menachem Alter (Hebrew: פינחס מנחם אלתר, June 9, 1926 – March 7, 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem (פני מנחם), after the works he authored, was the seventh rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996. From 1956 until he was appointed rebbe, he was a Rosh Yeshiva (dean of a yeshiva). He also served as a member and the president of the Torah Scholars Council and as the chairman of the Agudat Yisrael political party.[1]