Place
Radin ראדין
The town of the Chafetz Chaim: from here came the book on evil speech and the Mishnah Berurah.
R. Yisrael Meir Kagan lived in Radin almost all his life, kept a shop his wife ran, and wrote two books that changed daily practice: Chafetz Chaim on evil speech, and the Mishnah Berurah, the compendium of everyday halacha that became the standard.
The yeshiva in Radin grew around the man, not the other way round. After his death and the war it was reborn in Israel and America, and the town's name stayed in the language as the man's: Chafetz Chaim is both the book and him.
On the timeline
5633 · 1873 CEThe Chafetz Chaim and the Mishnah Berurah5701 · 1941 CEThe End of the Yeshiva World of Eastern Europe
Sources
Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- Mishnah Berurah, Orach Chaim 1 — the compendium of everyday halacha written here
- Chafetz Chaim, the rules of lashon ha-ra — the book on evil speech that gave its name to both the author and the town
Basis: documents and evidence.