Yisrael Meir Kagan
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yisrael Meir (Kagan) Poupko (Dzyatlava, 1838 – Radun, 1933) known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim was an influential Eastern European rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Jewish life. His surname Poupko is not widely known. Kagan was born in Zhetl, Hrodno Guberniya, todays Belarus on February 6, 1838, and died in Radun, Wilno Voivodship, Poland (pop. 250), todays Belarus on September 15, 1933. When Kagan was ten years old, his father died. His mother moved the family to Vilnius in order to continue her sons education. While in Vilnius, Kagan became a student of Rabbi Jacob Barit. Kagans mother later re-married (Poupko) and moved to Radu. When he was 17, Kagan married the daughter of his stepfather, and settled in Radu.
