Full name Simcha Bunem Alter Name Simcha Alter Main work Lev Simcha Parents Avraham Mordechai Alter | Predecessor Yisrael Alter Children Yaakov Aryeh Alter Successor Pinchas Menachem Alter | |
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Term March 1977 – 7 July 1992 Buried Mount of Olives, 7 July 1992 Died August 6, 1992, Jerusalem, Israel Great-grandparents Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin Similar People Pinchas Menachem Alter, Yaakov Aryeh Alter, Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Moshe Mordechai Epstein | ||
Grandparents Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter | ||
Simcha Bunim Alter (Hebrew: שמחה בונים אלתר; April 6, 1898 – August 6, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (Hebrew: לב שמחה) after the works he authored, was the sixth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1977 until his passing.
In 1980, he instituted Yerushalmi Yomi, the daily learning of a page of the Jerusalem Talmud, similar to the renowned Daf Yomi for the Babylonian Talmud.
He died of unknown causes on July 7, 1992 (7th of Tammuz 5752) and was interred in the cave of the Gerrer Rebbes in the Mount of Olives cemetery.
Rebbes of Ger
- Yitzchak Meir Alter (1799–1866)
- Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin (1798–1870)
- Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905)
- Avraham Mordechai Alter (1866–1948)
- Yisrael Alter (1895–1977)
- Simcha Bunim Alter (1898–1992)
- Pinchas Menachem Alter (1926–1996)
- Yaakov Aryeh Alter (b. 1939)
References
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