Editing Simcha Bunim Alter

{{Short description|Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty (1898–1992)}}
{{Infobox rebbe
| title           = Gerrer Rebbe
| image           = Simcha Bunim Alter.jpg
| caption         =
| began           =
| ended           = March 1977 &ndash; July 8, 1992
| birth_name      = Simcha Bunim Alter
| main_work       = Lev Simcha
| predecessor     = [[Yisrael Alter]]
| successor       = [[Pinchas Menachem Alter]]
| spouse          = Yuta Hena Alter
| children        = Chaya Ruda Yehudis Alter<br />Rivka Feyga Alter<br>[[Yaakov Aryeh Alter]]
| dynasty         = Ger
| father          = [[Avraham Mordechai Alter]]
| mother          = Chaya Ruda Yehudis Czarna
| birth_date      = {{birth date |1898|4|6|mf=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Góra Kalwaria]]
| death_date      = {{death date and age |1992|7|8|1898|4|6|mf=y}}
| death_place     = [[Jerusalem]]
| date of burial  = July 7, 1992
| place of burial = [[Mount of Olives]]
}}

'''Simcha Bunim Alter''' ({{langx|he|שמחה בונים אלתר}}; April 6, 1898 &ndash; July 8, 1992), also known as the '''''Lev Simcha''''' ({{lang|he|לב שמחה}}), after the works he authored, was the sixth [[Rebbe]] of the [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] dynasty of [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]], a position he held from 1977 until his death.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-rabbi-simha-bunem-alter-1532474.html Obituary: Rabbi Simha Bunem Alter], ''The Independent'', (July 11, 1992).</ref>

In 1980, he instituted ''[[Torah_study#Study_cycles|Yerushalmi Yomi]]'', the daily learning of a page of the [[Jerusalem Talmud]], similar to the renowned [[Daf Yomi]] for the [[Babylonian Talmud]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t2bJ1UqfNXAC&q=Yerushalmi+yomi&pg=PA315 |title=History of the Jewish People: From Yavneh to Pumbedisa |first=Meir |last=Holder |page=315 |publisher=Mesorah Publications Ltd. |year=1986 |isbn=9780899064994}}</ref>

He died on July 7, 1992 (7th of [[Tammuz (Hebrew month)|Tammuz]] 5752), and was interred in the cave of the Gerrer Rebbes in the [[Mount of Olives]] cemetery.

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