peacemaker, and always endeavored to make peace between Rabbis and other Jews, and he effected the reconciliation between the famous Hassidic Rabbis of Ger and Belz.
The persecution of the Jewish faith in Soviet Russia has been a great source of sorrow to him, and he has repeatedly asked Jewish communities to recite special prayers of intercession in the synagogues on behalf of the Jews of Russia.
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