Simcha Bunim Alter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSimcha Bunim Alter
Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty
Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1898
Place of Birth: Góra Kalwaria, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Date of Death: 06-Aug-1992
Profession: rabbi
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Simcha Bunim Alter
- Simcha Bunim Alter (Hebrew: ???? ????? ????; April 6, 1898 – August 6, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (Hebrew: ?? ????) 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.
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