Rabbi Meir Freeman
מאיר ב"ר זאב
Rav, Beth Hamedrash Hachodosh Talmud Torah, New York CityDate of Death:
Mon. November 12, 1928 -
Cheshvan 29 5689
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Directions to Kever: Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Society: JOSHUA, Path: 17R, Lot: 39
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: FREEMAN, MEYER
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Title page of Toras Meir printed in New York City, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America
Photo Caption: Toras Meir, reprinted Jerusalem edition, Credit: HebrewBooks
Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)
Source: The Morning Journal
Source: Sutton Place Synagogue
Photo Caption: Beth Hamedrash Hachodosh Talmud Torah, c. 1940, Credit: NYC
Bio Information:
The Rav, who studied at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva, better known as Volozhin authored a number of seforim (books).
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R. Meyer b. Zev Freeman (1843-1928). He studied in various yeshivot before enrolling in the yeshivah in Volozhin at the age of sixteen. Two years later he transferred to the yeshivah of R. Mordekhai Hirsch in Kalwaria, Poland. He immigrated to America at the age of twenty and became a shohet. He lived in New York and maintained hevrutot (regular study partnerships) with R. Zevi b. Nehemiah Katz (in the Mariampoler congregation) and R. Solomon Siskind (preacher of the AlIen St. synagogue). He traveled to the Land of Israel in 1888. While there he was arrested by Ottoman authorities, necessitating American diplomatic intervention. Freeman had a butcher shop on New York’s Lower East Side in 1900. Freeman was active in local communal affairs. He served as the president of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol of New York and was a founder of the Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, which sought to bring a chief rabbi to New York. He later served as the president of Cong. Talmud Torah, 221 E. 51 St. Dismayed that he “found … no Torah” in his neighborhood, Freeman donated “a few thousand dollars” to build a synagogue and study hall with a seating capacity of seven hundred.