1. Mordechai Breuer was a German-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi.
11 Facts About Mordechai Breuer
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Mordechai Breuer was one of the world's leading experts on Tanakh, and especially of the text of the Aleppo Codex.
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Mordechai Breuer was born in 1921 to Samson and Else Leah Breuer.
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Mordechai Breuer's mother died while Mordechai was a young child, and his father then married Agatha Jeidel.
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Mordechai Breuer taught Tanakh in several yeshivot and schools in Israel beginning in 1947, such as Yeshivat Har Etzion.
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Mordechai Breuer received an honorary doctorate by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Mordechai Breuer later gained access to the Aleppo Codex and found it to match almost perfectly with his work, supporting his thesis of only one correct edition.
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Mordechai Breuer's edition was first published by Mossad Harav Kook in the Da'at Mikra series and as its own volume.
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Mordechai Breuer was known for developing Shitat Habechinot which suggests that differing styles and internal tensions in the Biblical text represent different "voices" of God or Torah, which cannot be merged without losing their identity.
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Mordechai Breuer explains how and why the Seder developed as presented in the Haggadah nowadays.
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Mordechai Breuer authored five other works: One on the Aleppo Codex, one on Taamei Hamikra, Pirkei Bereishit, Pirkei Mikraot, and Pirkei Yeshayahu.