Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Porush, (Hebrew: שלמה זלמן פרוש), was born in Babruysk

Babruysk

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, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (now Belarus

Belarus

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) in 1850 to his father Rabbi Naftali Zvi Porush (d. 1866) and mother Leah (d. 1900). He died in Jerusalem in 1898 and is buried on the Mount of Olives

Mount of Olives

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Biography

He arrived in Eretz Yisroel as a little boy in 1860 together with his parents and a brother Gershon and a sister. As a Jerusalem community leader of the Yishuv haYashan he founded the neighborhood of Shaarei Chesed and created the Shaarei Chesed Free-Loan Fund

Gemach

Gemach is a Jewish free-loan fund which subscribes to both the positive Torah commandment of lending money and the Torah prohibition against charging interest on a loan. Unlike bank loans, gemach loans are interest-free, and are often set up with easy repayment terms.Gemachs operate in most Jewish...

, which he directed on a voluntary basis for 18 years.

Some of his children were also leaders of the Yishuv haYashan. His children were: Rabbi Naftali Zvi Porush (the second), Rabbi Akiva Porush, Rabbi Aaron Porush, Rabbi Eliezer Lipa (Lipman) Porush, Rabbi Liber Mordechai Porush. A daughter married his brother Gershon's son Rabbi Menachem Mendel Porush. Another daughter Tzivia married Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach

Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach

Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach was one of the founders and first roshei yeshiva of Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva, a landmark Jerusalem institution specializing in Talmudic and kabbalah studies for Ashkenazi scholars...

 and their son was Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach

Shlomo Zalman Auerbach

Shlomo Zalman Auerbach , was a renowned Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel...

who was named after him.