The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Hershberg (1916-1985) was a renown outstanding Torah prodigy who had a profound command of depth and breadth of Torah study. Beloved disciple of Rabbi Meir Shapira, head of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva.
At the outbreak of World War II, he fled to Vilna and from there exiled to Japan and later to Shanghai with a group of Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva students. In October 1941 Rabbi Hershberg managed to immigrate with a group of young men to Montreal, Canada.
Rabbi Hershberg moved to Chicago, and served in its rabbinate and taught Torah. In 1960, he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Mexico City and president of the Rabbinical Center of Latin America. He devoted much of his time to study of the Yerushalmi Talmud and even founded an institute to promote its daily study. He authored: Otzar HaYerushalmi, Machshevet HaKodesh, and more.
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