Rabbi Moshe Levinger was born in Jerusalem in Khiv Sivan 1935. He grew up in the Rehavia A. neighborhood. He studied at the Horev school and was a devoted member of the Ezra youth movement. Kfar Haroeh and from there will enlist in the core of the stream and will be one of the founders of Yeshiva Sha'alvim.
Learn More06/01/1935Rabbi Levinger completed his military service in Nahal and went to study at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva with his teacher and rabbi, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda HaCohen Kook (Herzliya). Rabbi Levinger is ordained a rabbi at the Rabbi's Center and at the age of 26 he will migrate north to Kibbutz Lavi together with his wife Miriam and eldest son Ephraim and will serve as a kibbutz member and the kibbutz's first rabbi.
Learn More01/01/1955Rabbi Levinger serves as a full member of a kibbutz. Partner in the kibbutz economy in the various trades, but on the other hand also the rabbi and the halakhic judge. He even tried to establish a yeshiva on the kibbutz, but after 5 years he parted ways with Lavi and moved to the great sun of Moshav Nahalim. During this period he will meet many personalities who will later become his partners and friends in the settlement enterprise. After the Six Day War he realizes that now is the time to want to return and settle the Promised Land.
Learn More01/01/1962From the end of the Six Day War until the day of his death on the 27th of Iyar 5755, Rabbi Levinger dedicated his life to the commandment to settle in the Land of Israel. Kfar Etzion, Hebron, Kiryat Arba, Gush Emunim, rallies, marches, courts, demonstrations, hunger strikes, all for the people of Israel to return and settle the land of their ancestors.
Learn More10/04/1968Beyond being an important public figure, Rabbi Levinger was also a beloved grandfather to his family, joint study, stories, trips, travels, rooting love of the land, volunteering for years with his children and grandchildren in the nursing home in Jerusalem enlighten us the simple and unique figure of Rabbi Levinger https: //drive.google.com/file/d/1T2D5tFAnhlaHUViRCtRq7w0-GHStYdLK/view?usp=sharing
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