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'''Avraham Chaim Naeh''' ({{Langx|he|אברהם חיים נאה}}; 3 May 1890 – 21 July 1954) was a [[Lubavitcher]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasid]]<ref>Approbations to ''Ketzos ha-Shulchan''.</ref> and major ''[[posek]]'' ([[halachic]] authority) active during the first half of twentieth century. He is most famous for his works ''Ketzos ha-Shulchan'', ''Piskei Ha[[Siddur]]'', ''Shi'urei Mikveh'', and ''Shi'urei Torah'' (''Measurements of the Torah''); in the last work, he converted [[biblical]] [[Measurement|measurements]] into contemporary measurements. The work is of great practical significance since much of Halacha involves specific requirements of precise sizes and quantities.

Naeh was born in [[Hebron]]. His father, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Naeh, was the dean of the Magen Avos Yeshiva, founded by the [[Sdei Chemed]].<ref name=CORG>Saltiel, Manny. [http://www.chinuch.org/Tammuz.php Gedolim Yahrtzeits: 20 Tammuz], ''Chinuch.org''</ref> He studied in his youth at the Ohel Moshe Yeshiva under Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin. In 1912, Naeh published ''Chanoch LaNa'ar'', a book containing laws for [[bar mitzvah]] boys.<ref name=CORG/>

When World War I broke out, the Ottoman authorities expelled people from Palestine who did not possess Turkish citizenship. Many of the dispossessed Jews found refuge in [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]], where Naeh opened a [[yeshiva]] called "Yeshivat Eretz Yisrael". His yeshivah had 200 students who had been exiled from Jerusalem.<ref name=CORG/> In Alexandria, Naeh wrote ''Shenot Chaim'', a special ''[[Shlomo Ganzfried#Kitzur Shulchan Aruch|Kitzur Shulchan Aruch]]'' for [[Sephardic Jews]]. In 1918, he returned to Palestine and served as the personal secretary of the [[Edah HaChareidis]], under Rabbi [[Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld]],.<ref name=CORG/> He published his most famous work ''Ketzos HaShulchan'' in 1926. In 1948, he was a founding member of the Rabbinic Council of [[Agudat Yisrael]] in Jerusalem<ref>https://tablet.otzar.org/#/b/179656/p/326/t/16780.7397478327947045/fs/rylPNJtYRAfBwMUbPmHG1behOqE9l1ttW5rVT7sMCaIx/start/8835/end/9012/c/1739103596123</ref> and later helped found the [[haredi]] weekly newspapers, ''Kol Yisrael'' and ''[[HaModia]]''.<ref name=CORG/>

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