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Aharon Pfeuffer (, also "Pfoifer"; 1949–1993)

(2025). 9781584653295, UPNE. . ISBN 9781584653295

was a Rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva and Posek, and a recognized authority on Kashrut.

Biography

Pfeuffer studied in various Yeshivot, primarily Hebron Yeshiva and Yeshivat HaNegev in Israel, as well as Lakewood in the US. He later studied in chavruta with Shmuel Rozovsky, famed Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Ponevezh Yeshiva, and came to consider him his primary Rabbi. He received Semicha, Rabbinic ordination, from Tzvi Kushelevsky.

He was active in Israel, London, and then Johannesburg: He taught in yeshivot in Hadera and Kfar Haroeh; He rosh yeshiva the Etz Chaim Yeshiva (London) from 1976; He founded and headed the Yeshiva Maharsha Beis Aharon from 1982 (later named "Beis Aharon" for him), and lead the Yeshiva gedolah program Denis Diamond (1983). "South Africa". The American Jewish Year Book. Vol. 83 (1983), pp. 263-272. at the Yeshiva College of South Africa in the early 1980s.

He died in a car accident on his way to the Kruger National Park.

Works

Rabbi Pfeuffer is best known for his series on Kashrut, with volumes titled, e.g., " Kitzur Shulchan Aruch al Hilchos Basar be-Chalav" ("Summarized laws of Milk and Meat"). These explicate the Halacha (law) for the major Rabbinic topics here (with one on Niddah also קצור שולחן ערוך על הלכות נדה, nli.org.il) and are often recommended as a resource for students preparing for Semicha. ספרים מומלצים, smicha.co.il These were later popularized in a graphical and tabular format published in both Hebrew בשר בחלב : מדריך הלכתי מאויר and English.

Ehud Rozenberg (2025). 9781583306833, Feldheim Publishers. . ISBN 9781583306833

Rabbi Pfeuffer produced several other scholarly works. These include "Zichron Menachem" and "Ohr Aharon" comprising, largely, " shiurim and chidushim" Ohr Aharon product description, lehmanns.co.uk on various tractates, the latter written during his years as Rosh Yeshiva.