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[[]] | [[File:יהושע ליין סמיכה לרחש ברוק.jpg|thumb|Rabbi Lane's manuscript of the [[Ordination to the Rabbinate]] given to Rabbi [[Chaim Shaul Brock]], head of the [[Achi Temimim Rishon LeZion]] yeshiva]] | ||
Rabbi Yehoshua Lein was a chassid of the Rebbe Rashab and the Frierdiker Rebbe who served as director of the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva branch in Dokshitz, and also served as rav in several towns in Russia. The Frierdiker Rebbe testified about him that he was a beinoni according to the Tanya. | Rabbi '''Yehoshua Lein''' was a chassid of the [[Rebbe Rashab]] and the [[Frierdiker Rebbe]] who served as director of the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva branch in Dokshitz, and also served as rav in several towns in [[Russia]]. The Frierdiker Rebbe testified about him that he was a beinoni according to the Tanya. | ||
== Life History == | == Life History == | ||
Born in 1881 in the town of Nevel to his father, the chassid Reb Chaim Dovid Lein, as a descendant of the Chabad Chen family. | Born in 1881 in the town of [[Nevel]] to his father, the chassid Reb [[Chaim Dovid Lein]], as a descendant of the Chabad Chen family. | ||
When he reached the age of bar mitzvah, he was sent to the town of Chernigov to learn from his uncle, the town's rav, Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Chen. Later, he learned shechita from his father, but did not practice it since his father forbade him from performing shechita. | When he reached the age of bar mitzvah, he was sent to the town of Chernigov to learn from his uncle, the town's rav, Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Chen. Later, he learned shechita from his father, but did not practice it since his father forbade him from performing shechita. | ||
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In 1938, he was arrested by the secret police and released after a short time by a relative who had left the path and was among the police officers, who set a condition that he would release him only if he stopped engaging in Jewish activities, shechting chickens for the townspeople and so forth. Nevertheless, after his release he continued with mesiras nefesh to engage in shechita and teaching the tmimim and sharing chassidic ma'amarim in the shul. | In 1938, he was arrested by the secret police and released after a short time by a relative who had left the path and was among the police officers, who set a condition that he would release him only if he stopped engaging in Jewish activities, shechting chickens for the townspeople and so forth. Nevertheless, after his release he continued with mesiras nefesh to engage in shechita and teaching the tmimim and sharing chassidic ma'amarim in the shul. | ||
== His Passing == | == His Passing == | ||
In the summer months of 1941, the German army conquered Rudnia and concentrated the town's residents in a ghetto. At the end of the month of Tishrei 1942, they took everyone out to the tank trenches outside the city and shot them all to death. | In the summer months of 1941, the German army conquered Rudnia and concentrated the town's residents in a ghetto. At the end of the month of Tishrei 1942, they took everyone out to the tank trenches outside the city and shot them all to death. | ||
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* Shneur Berger, '''Yehoshua Hu Sheli''', Biography of Rav Yehoshua Laine in Beis Moshiach Weekly Issue 955 page 26 onwards, 11 Teves 2015 | * Shneur Berger, '''Yehoshua Hu Sheli''', Biography of Rav Yehoshua Laine in Beis Moshiach Weekly Issue 955 page 26 onwards, 11 Teves 2015 | ||
* Yosef Ashkenazi, Otzar HaChassidim - Personalities and Chassidic Teachings of Chabad Mashpi'im in the Soviet Union and Poland, Chazak Publishing, 2015 | * Yosef Ashkenazi, Otzar HaChassidim - Personalities and Chassidic Teachings of Chabad Mashpi'im in the Soviet Union and Poland, Chazak Publishing, 2015 | ||
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