LIPSCHUETZ, ISRAEL BEN ELIEZER
- LIPSCHUETZ, ISRAEL BEN ELIEZER
- LIPSCHUETZ, ISRAEL BEN ELIEZER (d. 1782), German rabbi,
studied under Ezekiel katzenellenbogen . In the responsa of his
father titled Heshiv R. Eliezer (Nevewirth, 1649), there are
included several items by the son, Israel, who is mentioned as being the
rabbi of "Diez, Hadamar, and the environs." Later he served as rabbi in
Cleves. In 1766–67 he came into prominence with regard to the cause
célèbre known as the cleves get. Lipschuetz himself
in 1770 published a collection of responsa supporting his standpoint
under the title Or Yisrael (Cleves, 1770) in answer to the
Or ha-Yashar published by aaron simeon of copenhagen in
Amsterdam a year previously in support of the opposing side.
His son GEDALIAH (d. 1826) eked out a meager living
serving as rabbi to various smaller Jewish communities in East Prussia,
among them Obrzycko and Chodziez (now in Poland). In 1809 he came into
conflict with the local authorities when he opposed an edict forbidding
the settlement of conflicts by recourse to Jewish courts. Gedaliah was
the author of Ḥumrei Matnita (Berlin, 1784) in six parts:
comments on the Talmud and its main commentaries with special attention
given to the tractates Nazir and Nedarim; an
explanation of unusual words in the Talmud; novellae on
asher b. jehiel titled Ateret Rosh; notes on
isaac alfasi titled Ma'aseh Ilpas;Minei Targimon,
comments on Targum Onkelos and Rashi's Pentateuch commentary;
Mirkevet ha-Mishnah, comments on difficult passages in the
Mishnah. In his approbation of this work the father mentions 17 works of
his son as existing in manuscript form. Gedaliah also wrote Regel
Yesharah (Dyhernfurth, 1777), containing a list of unusual words
left unexplained by Rashi in his commentary on the Talmud, referring to
other passages where an explanation is found; comments on the order
Nezikin and the minor tractates of the Talmud; an excursus on
talmudic weights and measures; and an elucidation of the geometrical
matter in chapters three and five of the tractate Kilayim.
The allegedly presumptuous tone of this work, combined with the conceit
and contentious disposition of its author, led to its disparagement
among the maskilim who coined the saying, "the author of the
Regel Yesharah ("Straight Foot") is a twisted blockhead."
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Berliner, in: MGWJ, 50 (1906), 215–8; S.B. Freehof,
Responsa Literature (1955), 158ff.; D. Kaufmann and M.
Freudenthal, Familie Gomperz (1907), 74; Tal, in:
Sinai, 24 (1948–49), 152–67.
(Jacob Haberman)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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