Simcha Bunim Alter

Simcha Bunim Alter
שמחה בונים אלתר
Title	Gerrer Rebbe
Personal life
Born	Simcha Bunim Alter (1898-04-06)April 6, 1898 Góra Kalwaria
Died	July 8, 1992(1992-07-08) (aged 94) Jerusalem
Spouse	Yuta Hena Alter
Children	Chaya Ruda Yehudis Alter Rivka Feyga Alter Yaakov Aryeh Alter
Parents	Avraham Mordechai Alter (father) Chaya Ruda Yehudis Czarna (mother)
Dynasty	Ger
Religious life
Religion	Judaism
Jewish leader
Predecessor	Yisrael Alter
Successor	Pinchas Menachem Alter
Ended	March 1977 – July 8, 1992
Main work	Lev Simcha
Buried	Mount of Olives, July 7, 1992
Dynasty	Ger

Simcha Bunim Alter (Hebrew: שמחה בונים אלתר; April 6, 1898 – July 8, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (לב שמחה), after the works he authored, was the sixth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1977 until his death.^[1]

In 1980, he instituted Yerushalmi Yomi, the daily learning of a page of the Jerusalem Talmud, similar to the renowned Daf Yomi for the Babylonian Talmud.^[2]

He died on July 7, 1992 (7th of Tammuz 5752), and was interred in the cave of the Gerrer Rebbes in the Mount of Olives cemetery.

His son Yaakov Aryeh Alter currently is the Grand Rabbi of Ger.

References

1. Obituary: Rabbi Simha Bunem Alter, The Independent, (July 11, 1992).
2. Holder, Meir (1986). History of the Jewish People: From Yavneh to Pumbedisa. Mesorah Publications Ltd. p. 315. ISBN 9780899064994.