1. Aaron Moshe Schechter was an American Haredi rabbi.
11 Facts About Aaron Schechter
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Aaron Schechter was the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and its post-graduate Talmudical division, Kollel Gur Aryeh.
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Aaron Schechter served on the presidium of Agudath Israel of America and was a member of that organization's Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.
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Aaron Moshe Schechter was born in East New York, Brooklyn, to Yosef and Fruma Rochel.
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Aaron Schechter attended Yeshiva Toras Chaim Elementary School and later studied at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin for high school, where he became a disciple of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner.
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Aaron Schechter encouraged Schechter to write rabbinic literature on a section of Mishneh Torah, which Schechter titled Avodas Aharon.
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Aaron Schechter collaborated with Aharon Feldman of Yeshiva Ner Yisrael, and Yaakov Perlow, the Rebbe of Novominsk, who was appointed Rosh Agudas Yisroel ; both were early disciples of Hutner, on the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.
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On January 13,2015, Aaron Schechter resigned from the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah over a dispute regarding internal dissent in the World Agudath Israel-affiliated Degel Hatorah; he returned after the dispute was settled.
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Aaron Schechter was the Principal of General Studies at Yeshiva of Brooklyn's girls' elementary school for over 20 years.
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Mordechai Zelig Aaron Schechter served as the mashgiach ruchani until his petira.
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Aaron Schechter died in Brooklyn on August 24,2023, at the age of 95.