Rabbi Meir Cohen
מאיר ב"ר שמואל הכהן
Executive Vice President, Agudas HaRabonim United States and CanadaDate of Death:
Wed. November 8, 1978 -
Cheshvan 8 5739
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Photo Caption, Rav Meir Cohen who also served as Cheif Rabbi of Jersey City for many years at the pulpit, Credit: IFJCAH
Photo Caption: At the Sheva Berachos of his son, Rabbi Samuel I Cohen, author of “The Religious Word” articles for the Jewish Press in Philadelphia, along with the Tolna Rebbe of Philadelphia. Credit: Baruch C Cohen Esq., Los Angeles
Photo Caption: His Smicha (ordination) from RIETS signed by, Rav Moshe Zevulun Margolies (Ramaz), Rav Binyamin Aronowitz, Rav Dov Revel, and Rav Shloma Polachek, Credit: Baruch C Cohen Esq., Los Angeles
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Here are his seforim: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/2206
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/2207
His father was very famous in Russia – the “Minchas Shabbos”. I think R’ Meir was the youngest son.
His son R’ Chaim Zalman Cohen lives in Lawrence, NY, and authored a sefer on Brachos and Sukkah – “Maadanei Chaim”.
הוא נין נכד להרבה רבנים וגדולים, אך היחוס לשארית יוסף, הוא בן אחר בן.
יחוסו מפורט בשער של ספרי אביו.
http://toladot.blogspot.com
A notice of his petirah in HaPardes: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=12400&st=&pgnum=31&hilite=.
הוא צאצא להרבה רבנים וגדולים, אומנם יחוסו לבעל השארית יוסף, הוא בן אחר בן.
בראש ספר ‘מנחת שבת’ ושאר ספריו, יש רשימת יוחסין באורך.
reb meir succeeded his father as rov in shatova russia still in his teens, and was rov in a few choshuve kehilos in america before becomeing menahel and rosh bais din of the agudas harabanim. he has semicha from many gedolim, and his seforim on rambam have haskamos from other gedolim. his son rabbi chaim z. also wrote a sefer on maseches migilah.
whats the source that Reb Mayer was rav in Shatova?
שער ספרו:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/2206
(טעות. לא שמתי לב שר’ מאיר הוציא לאור את ספריו בחייו)
Letter written by Rabbi Cohen on behalf of the Agudas Harabonim to the JDC denouncing the practice of the Jpoint to serve Treiefe meals at thier meetings:
http://search.archives.jdc.org/multimedia/Documents/NY_AR_45-54/NY_AR45-54_Orgs/NY_AR45-54_00184/NY_AR45-54_00184_0114.pdf
Rav Meyer Cohen (zt’l) was my grandfather. He published two seforim: Chelkas Meir (2 vols.), on the Rambam, hilchos maachalos asuros. His father, Rav Shmuel Cohen, was the author of Minchas Shabbos (hilchos Shabbos), Minchas Yom Tov (hilchos Yom Tov), Maadani Shmuel (hilchos Pesach) Shaarei Eden (hilchos Netilas Yadayim).
He was survived by his four children:
(1) Rabbi Samuel Cohen (a’h)(former executive VP JNF);
(2) Rabbi Jacob Simcha Cohen (zt’l) author: (a) ‘The 613th Commandment’ (re Mitzvah of writing a Sefer Torrah), (b)’Inermarraige & Conversion’ (hilchos geirus), (c) ‘The Jewish Heart’ (Essays on Jewish Sensitivities), (d) ‘Timely Jewish Questions: Timeless Jewish Answers’, (e-f) ‘How Does Jewish Law Work’ (2 vols.), (g) ‘Shabbat the Right Way’, (h) ‘Jewish Prayer the Right Way’.
(3) Rav Chaim Zalman Cohen (shlita), author: Maadani Chaim Masechtot Brachot, Megillah.
(4) Nechama Yoselovsky (a’h).
Please note that my father זצ”ל was niftar on ח’ מר-חשון NOT on ה’ מר-חשון, as noted above in the bio.
Chaim Cohen
Lakewood, NJ, (formerly of Lawrence, NY)
Would this happen to be the same Rabbi Meir Cohen who was principal of Torah M’Zion Jewish school in Philadelphia in the 1940s?
This one married my grandparents in 1940
Tonight is his 47th yartzeit. Yehi zichro baruch.