Shmuel Leib Medalia

Shmuel Leib Medalia

Shmuel-Leib Yankelevich Medalia was briefly the chief rabbi of Moscow for a brif period in 1943. He was known among Chabad hasidim as Shmuel Leib Paritcher, for his birthplace of Paritch, Belarus, where he was born in 1890. He is an alumnus of the original Yeshivas Tomchei T’mimim in Lyubavichi and later served as mashgiach (dean of studies) in various branches of the yeshiva. He is not relatedto Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin, a a non-hassidic chief rabbi appointed to the position in 1957.


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