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Yehuda Ashlag

1886 - 1954

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Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (1885–1954) or Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag (Hebrew: רַבִּי יְהוּדָה לֵיבּ הַלֵּוִי אַשְׁלַג), also known as the Baal Ha-Sulam (Hebrew: בַּעַל הַסּוּלָם‎, "Author of The Ladder") in reference to his magnum opus, was an orthodox rabbi and kabbalist born in Łuków, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, to a family of scholars connected to the Hasidic courts of Porisov and Belz. Rabbi Ashlag lived in the Holy Land from 1922 until his death in 1954 (except for two years in England). In addition to his Sulam commentary on the Zohar, his other primary work, Talmud Eser Sefirot is regarded as the central textbook for students of Kabbalah. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yehuda Ashlag has received more than 150,118 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yehuda Ashlag is the 8,276th most popular politician (down from 6,295th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Poland (down from 366th in 2019) and the 131st most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yehuda Ashlag ranks 8,276 out of 15,577Before him are Edmund Stoiber, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Arabella Churchill, Anjang of Goguryeo, Sid Watkins, and Władysław Czartoryski. After him are Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, Demaratus of Corinth, Paul Ramadier, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, Manuel Valls, and Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Yehuda Ashlag ranks 100Before him are Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Hans von Obstfelder, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Salvatore Maranzano, Helen Parkhurst, and Paul Lévy. After him are Marthe Bibesco, Otto von Knobelsdorff, Ty Cobb, Chester Barnard, Salvador de Madariaga, and Tarsila do Amaral. Among people deceased in 1954, Yehuda Ashlag ranks 54Before him are Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, Theodor Kaluza, James Hilton, Fritz London, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, and Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria. After him are Onofre Marimón, Frans G. Bengtsson, Ahmed Nihad, Emil Leon Post, M. N. Roy, and Prince Ernst of Hohenberg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Yehuda Ashlag ranks 494 out of 1,454Before him are Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765), John Cantius (1390), Kazys Grinius (1866), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Zygmunt Berling (1896), and Władysław Czartoryski (1828). After him are Ewa Kopacz (1956), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Symon Budny (1530), Myer Prinstein (1878), Stefan Żeromski (1864), and Elisabeth Hevelius (1647).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Yehuda Ashlag ranks 131Before him are Hugo Haase (1863), Karl Gützlaff (1803), Krakus (null), Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765), Kazys Grinius (1866), and Władysław Czartoryski (1828). After him are Ewa Kopacz (1956), Elisabeth Hevelius (1647), Gerhard Klopfer (1905), Richard Thomalla (1903), Myechyslaw Hryb (1938), and Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (1846).