Simcha Bunim Alter


Simcha Bunim Alter, also known as the Lev Simcha, after the works he authored, was the sixth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1977 until his passing.
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.
He died of unknown causes on July 7, 1992, and was interred in the cave of the Gerrer Rebbes in the Mount of Olives cemetery.

Rebbes of Ger

  1. Yitzchak Meir Alter
  2. Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin
  3. Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
  4. Avraham Mordechai Alter
  5. Yisrael Alter
  6. Simcha Bunim Alter
  7. Pinchas Menachem Alter
  8. Yaakov Aryeh Alter