SHAPIRA, ELIJAH BEN BENJAMIN WOLF
- SHAPIRA, ELIJAH BEN BENJAMIN WOLF
- SHAPIRA, ELIJAH BEN BENJAMIN WOLF (1660–1712), rabbi,
preacher, and halakhist. Elijah studied under his grandfather, Aaron
Simeon Shapira, and abraham abele gombiner . He was the
brother-in-law of jacob reischer and of david oppenheim . He
served as rabbi in Kolin, Bohemia, and from 1702 in Tiktin, resigning
this post when he was appointed head of the yeshivah and preacher in his
native Prague (though according to some he continued to act as rabbi of
Tiktin while in Prague).
Elijah gained renown through his works: Eliyahu Zuta, a short
commentary on the Levush of mordecai b. abraham jaffe ,
published with the text (Prague, 1689); Eliyahu Rabbah, a
more extensive and profound commentary to the same work, published with
the Shulḥan Arukh, Oraḥ Ḥayyim (Sulzbach, 1757), to which it
served as a kind of supplement; Shishah Shitot me-Ḥiddushei Eliyyah
Rabbah on the tractates Ketubbot, Kiddushin, Gittin, Bava
Kamma. Bava Batra, and Ḥullin, published in Zurich in 1768. Many
of his other works – sermons, novellae, and responsa which had remained
in manuscript – were destroyed in the great fire of Prague in 1754.
Shapira died in Prague; his sons were Aryeh Leib, rabbi of Leipen, and
Samuel, head of the Prague bet din.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ch. Tchernowitz, Toledot ha-Posekim, 3 (1947), 185–6; M.
Bar-Yuda and Z. Ben-Nachum (eds.), Sefer Tiktin (1959), 74–5.
(Itzhak Alfassi)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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