Ohr Somayach (disambiguation)

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Ohr Somayach is both the pen name of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk and also refers to his major written work known by its Hebrew name of Ohr Somayach ("Light [that is] Happy, or Delightful)

Ohr Somayach yeshivas, based on the pen name of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk is the name of a network of baal teshuva ("returnees" to Judaism) yeshivas (religious schools) for young men, under Orthodox Judaism and Haredi aupices. The first was Yeshivas Ohr Somayach in Israel, and next was Yeshivas Ohr Somayach in the United States. Other branches were established in Toronto and Montreal in Canada, and in Detroit, and Philadelphia, London in the United Kingdom, Johannesburg in South Africa, Kiev in Ukraine, and Yeshiva Gedola in Sydney, Australia.

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