[Avodah] Sim shalom-Shalom Rav

[Lisa Liel]

On 9/15/2011 3:11 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 15/09/2011 3:29 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>> (Machon Shilo, in their recreation of Nusach EY use "Sim Shelomekha". I
>> don't know R' Chaim b David's justification of his choice.
>
> R David ben Chaim.  R Chaim is Rabbi Michael Mandel of Melbourne.
> Incidentally, while just searching on his name I found a moving story
> about him in a book called "Prisms of Light", excerpts of which are
> on Google Books.

His last name is Bar Hayim.  Not Ben David and not Chaim.  It may have 
once been Mandel, just as Ben Gurion's last name was once Gruen and 
Golda Meir was once Golda Mabovitch.  I'm not sure why you always feel 
the need to point out what his name used to be, as though his name now 
isn't "real".

Lisa