Talk:Yosef Shalom Elyashiv

Age
Rabbi Eliashiv may be old, but he's got his senses. I don't think it is reasonable to blame his "entourage" for bending or reinterpreting responses. As for the Slifkin case, he is one of the signatories after incitement by an unnamed Bnei Berak Rabbi. He has signed many more proclamations in a similar fashion, and (as Slifkin's web page testifies) he stands behind his condemnation. Every rabbi may invoke Daat Torah as reason for his opinion. Whether this is accepted is an entirely different matter and need not be discussed specifically in his case. JFW | T@lk  11:35, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

youth/family
Would it be possible to expand on place of birth, parents, and youth. The article assumes that he was born the great rabbi he is today, with no information on how he got there, which schools he studied in, significant events in his life, parents occupation, siblings, wife, other children, etc... --Shuki 14:50, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd be happy to help write some of that if someone could point me in the direction of a source, preferably online. I just don't have time to do massive amounts of Googling at the moment. ShalomShlomo 04:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I finally confirmed his mother's name two different sources. I wasn't sure the first time I heard this name since it means that the Rav's mom was born to a Chassidish Chabad family, which is quite interesting. Anyone know his father's name?

Place of birth
I am moving here. I was under the impression that Rav Eliashiv was born in Jerusalem, can anyone confirm this? Thanks. IZAK

No he moved to palestine when he was 12 years old. His parents came from lithuania, and were close to the turkish speaking jewish community there (the karaim). If I am not mistaken, the surname of his parents were actually turkish, namely erener. 77.249.201.75 (talk) 23:29, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Bans?
I am not inclined to keep this segment in this bio. More significantly, however, I think these are written solely from the perspective of one side of the controversy--which violates standard Wikipedia NPOV rules. DavidCharlesII 21:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If you feel this is the case, then why not help make it NPOV, instead of rejecting it out of hand? ShalomShlomo 01:55, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 21:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Killed daughter's name
What was the name of the daughter killed by the Jordanians? Tomertalk 00:13, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I just put his children's names in the infobox. He had 12 children, not 11 &mdash; five sons and seven daughers. One son, Yitzchak, died as a child, and one daughter, Rivkah, died in Jordanian shelling in 1948. I expanded the family section using an online reference. The article listed the the daughters in order of birth, but not the sons. Yoninah (talk) 20:43, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Progeny
Out of eleven children, six of his daughters married significant rabbinic figures:


 * Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a major posek who lives in Bnei Brak, Israel, & son of Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky.
 * Rabbi Yosef Yisroel Yisraelzon, head of the "Bar Shaul" kolel in Rehovot (d. 2009).
 * Rabbi Elchonon Berlin, rov of the "Achva" shul
 * Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein, the Chief Rabbi of Ramat Elchanan and the rabbi of the Mayenei HaYshua Hospital in Bnei Brak. Rabbi Zilberstein's wife has died, and he has since remarried.
 * Rabbi Ezriel Auerbach, the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.
 * Rabbi Binyomin Rimmer, a rosh yeshiva at the Tshebiner Yeshiva in Jerusalem and at the Kiryat Melech Yeshiva in Bnei Brak.

Position
Wasn't he once a judge in the Rabbanut and resigned in protest of an incident where Rabbi Goren dismissed a ruling of his and his fellow judges, due to a political request by Golda Meir? This Wikipedia page does not reflect that part of his life.

Barryfadams (talk) 07:53, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposed page rename
This page was moved from Yosef Shalom Elyashiv to Yosef Shalom Eliashiv on 29 August 2006 by a user who claimed it is the "correct spelling of name". Well, according to all English sources that I'm consulting to expand the page, Elyashiv is the more common spelling in English. (On Google, Eliashiv gets 116,000 hits and Elyashiv gets 148,000 hits.) Can other editors weigh in on whether to rename the page Yosef Shalom Elyashiv? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 21:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Your google test shows no preference for either spelling; 116 and 148 are about the same for such a crude measure. On the other hand, English newspapers in Israel like Haaretz, Ynet and J Post prefer "Elyashiv" by a very large margin (more than a factor of 10). The only Haredi magazine I looked at (Mishpacha) uses Elyashiv exclusively. Without more information, it seems that Elyashiv would be a better name, so I support moving it back. Zerotalk 00:22, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

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RAV?
Should the mentions of "Elyashiv" be changed to Rabbi Elyashiv, as Rabbis are not traditionally referred to by last name only? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.182.130.199 (talk) 13:26, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

obviously a reliable source
Please tell me what specifically makes the source not reliable or proper. I think the info is relevant and it is from an article Rav Elyashiv wrote in the yated.Meir Hakoton (talk) 07:49, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * You are not providing a usable source/citation. Based on the information you are adding, it is impossible to tell whether it's reliable or not.  Nomoskedasticity (talk) 15:32, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Only English allowed on enWiki
Removed incomprehensible bit. Discussion opened at Talk:World_Zionist_Organization - pls go there for arguments etc. Arminden (talk) 11:37, 4 March 2024 (UTC)