Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
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+ | |title = Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan | ||
+ | |image = [[File:00000690 tomb rabbi aryeh moshe eliyahu ben shmuel kaplan.jpg|215px|alt=Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan.]] | ||
+ | |header3 = Hebrew: | ||
+ | |data4 = אריה משה אליהו קפלן | ||
+ | |header5 = Life: | ||
+ | |data6 = October 23, 1934 - January 28, 1983 | ||
+ | |header7 = Other Names: | ||
+ | |data8 = RA"K, Rabbi Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu ben Shmuel | ||
+ | |header9 = Description: | ||
+ | |data10 = Popular author with books on Kabbalah, meditation and Jewish theology. | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | '''Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan''' was a Jewish author, writing over 50 books, some of them related to [[Kabbalah]] and Jewish Meditation. He passed away suddenly at the relatively young age of 48, leaving a wife and nine children. His books have brought many unaffiliated Jews closer to Judaism and spirituality. At the same time also serving as a springboard for members of the Yeshivish community into a new path of Kabbalah, Breslov and Chasidus. | ||
− | + | Born to Shmuel and Feiga Kapplan in 1934. | |
==Kever Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan== | ==Kever Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan== | ||
− | Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan is buried in Har Hazaysim. | + | Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan is buried in Har Hazaysim. |
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+ | ===Yortzite of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan=== | ||
+ | The yortzite of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan is on the 14th of Shevat. Some of his students have a custom of visiting his kever on his yortzite. | ||
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+ | <gallery widths=180px heights=120px perrow=4 caption="Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan Photo Gallery"> | ||
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+ | File:00000687 kever rabbi aryeh kaplan har hazaysim.jpg | ||
+ | File:00000688 grave rabbi aryeh kaplan har hazasim jerusalem.jpg | ||
+ | File:00000689 tombstone rabbi aryeh kaplan.jpg | ||
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+ | </gallery> | ||
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+ | {{Kivrei Tzadikim}} | ||
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+ | [[Category:Recent Rabbis]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Kivray Tzadikim]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Kabbalah]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Breslov]] |
Latest revision as of 11:11, 24 September 2013
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan was a Jewish author, writing over 50 books, some of them related to Kabbalah and Jewish Meditation. He passed away suddenly at the relatively young age of 48, leaving a wife and nine children. His books have brought many unaffiliated Jews closer to Judaism and spirituality. At the same time also serving as a springboard for members of the Yeshivish community into a new path of Kabbalah, Breslov and Chasidus.
Born to Shmuel and Feiga Kapplan in 1934.
[edit] Kever Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan is buried in Har Hazaysim.
[edit] Yortzite of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
The yortzite of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan is on the 14th of Shevat. Some of his students have a custom of visiting his kever on his yortzite.