Our Heroes: R. Menachem Mendel Shemtov (1933-2006)

by Rabbi Michoel Seligson

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shemtov, fondly referred to by Anash as Reb Mendel, was born in Poltova on the 28th of Sivan in 1933 to Horav Hachossid Reb Benzion and his wife Golda. For most of Mendel’s childhood, his father was exiled to Siberia for the self-sacrifice of opening chadorim and spreading Yiddishkeit to children in Russia.

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