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Volume 1, issue 1 of a Torah journal put out by the almuni and students of Yeshivath Jetev Lev D'Satmar in Jerusalem. The cover is illustrated with a picture of the Yeshiva.
The journal is edited by Binyamin Zeev Weiss, a student at the Yeshiva. There are 9 items listed in the table of contents on the verso of the title page. These include various articles such as one on the topic "Does a mitzva require Kavanna?". All are written in Hebrew and there are handwritten notations to one of the articles. |
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Satmar (or Satmar Hasidism or Satmarer Hasidism) (חסידות סאטמאר) is a Hasidic community which originated from mostly Hungarian and Romanian Hasidic Jews who fled Europe after World War II, founded and led by the late Grand Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum (1887-1979), who was the official rabbi of the town of Szatmárnémeti (now Satu Mare, Romania) up to World War II, at that time in the Kingdom of Hungary. Members of his congregation are mainly referred to as Satmar Hasidim or Satmarer Hasidim.
The largest part of the community lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York City; followed by Kiryas Joel, New York; Boro Park, Brooklyn; and Monsey, New York, and in other Haredi centers in North America, Europe, Israel, Argentina and Australia. For a long time the late Satmar Rebbe was the chief rabbi of Jerusalem's Edah HaChareidis (a Haredi community in Jerusalem), though he did not live permanently in Jerusalem.
Satmar is one of the largest, in terms of adherents, and most dominant, in terms of influence, Hasidic movements in existence today, but formal demographic comparisons with other Hasidim are not available. It is believed now, however, to number close to 130,000 adherents, due to the extremely high fertility rates of this group. This does not include a number of smaller and related anti-Zionist Hungarian Hasidic groups who align themselves with Satmar.
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