Moshe Leib Lilienblum

Who was Moshe Leib Lilienblum?

Moshe Leib Lilienblum was a Jewish scholar and author born at Keidany, Kovno, October 22, 1843. From his father he learned the calculation of the course of the stars in their relation to the Hebrew calendar. At the age of thirteen he organized a society of boys for the study of En Ya'aqob; and at the age of fifteen he married and settled at Vilkomir. He also used the pseudonym Zelaphchad Bar-Chuschim. A change in the fortunes of his father-in-law threw him upon his own resources, and in 1865, Lilienblum established a yeshivah in Vilna and another the following year.