Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter

Hasidic rabbi

Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1847

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 11-Jan-1905

Profession: rabbi

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (Hebrew ????? ???? ??? ????, 15 April 1847 – 11 January 1905), also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes (Ashkenazic Pronunciation) or Sefat Emet ??? ??? (Modern Hebrew), was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the Av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland (known in Yiddish as the town of Ger), and succeeded Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander as Rebbe of the Gerrer Hasidim.