LEMBERGER, MOSES BEN AARON
- LEMBERGER, MOSES BEN AARON
- LEMBERGER, MOSES BEN AARON (1706–1757), rabbi. At the age of
eight, Moses left his home in Lvov to be brought up by his grandfather
in mikulov (Nikolsburg). In 1724 he was appointed rabbi of
lipnik (Leipnik, Moravia) and in 1729 was appointed to succeed
Jehiel Michael Ḥasid as av bet din of Berlin. He stayed there
for one year, accepting a call in 1730 to the position of av bet
din of Frankfurt on the Oder, a position he held for about 14
years. He returned to Lipnik as av bet din in 1745. In 1755
on the death of his uncle Issachar Berush eskeles , Moses was
elected Landesrabbiner of Moravia. Moses' novellae on the
tractate Rosh ha-Shanah were published in Frankfurt on the
Oder in
1731.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
S. Buber, Anshei Shem (1895), 166, no. 422; W. Mueller,
Urkundliche Beitraege zur Geschichte der maehrischen
Judenschaft (1903), 157–9; H. Gold (ed.), Juden und
Judengemeinden Maehrens… (1929), index, S.V.
Lwów, Moses b. Aaron.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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