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Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank (1873–1960) (Hebrew: הרב צבי פסח פרנק) was a renowned halachic scholar and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for several decades. ==Biography== Frank was born in Kovno, Lithuania, the son of Yehuda Leib Frank and Malka Silman. He studied in Lithuanian yeshivas, learning under Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, among others. In 1892, he emigrated to Palestine with his brother Tanhum, his sister Zippora and his first cousin, Rabbi Shmuel Hillel Shenker.〔Richard Bercuvitz, Interview with Frank's daughter Esther Rosovsky, 1994; she stated that he came with his brother Tanchum and his cousin Shmuel Hillel Shenker in 1892 (5653). They came from Odessa to Jaffa. Turkish guards refused to let them disembark, so they continued to Alexandria, Egypt, where they remained for 3 weeks. After Simchat Torah, the same boat came back from Odessa and they got on an came back to Jaffa. Shabetai Rozental, in his book on Zvi Pesach Frank, does not mention Frank's sister and states that they went to Port Said in Egypt and arrived in Jaffa in the fall of 1892. Zvi Pesach's father had been in Palestine for some time prior to this.〕 His parents arrived in 1893. Tzvi Pesach continued his studies in yeshivas in Jerusalem. His father was one of the founders of Hadera. In 1907, Frank was appointed dayan in the Beth Din of the Edah HaChareidis headed by Rabbi Shmuel Salant, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Frank served on this Beth Din for nearly 60 years, eventually becoming ''Av Beit Din'' (head of the rabbinical court) and Rav of Jerusalem.〔 Frank was active in establishing the office of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and was instrumental in appointing Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook as the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi.〔 Rabbi Jacob Meir, the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi, had been in Palestine prior to the formal development of the office. Frank was recognized for his efforts by The Pacific Club in 1917 for advancing American relationships in the region. However, although Frank was a member of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council from its inception in 1921, he did not attend meetings of that body for six years prior to his death. One of his last acts was to send a letter to the meeting of rabbis in Tel Aviv, supporting the boycott of elections to the Chief Rabbinate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tzvi Pesach Frank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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