BERLIN, ARYEH LOEB BEN ABRAHAM MEIR
- BERLIN, ARYEH LOEB BEN ABRAHAM MEIR
- BERLIN, ARYEH LOEB BEN ABRAHAM MEIR (1738–1814), German
rabbi. Berlin, the younger brother of Noah Ḥayyim Ẓevi Hirsch
Berlin , was born in Fuerth where his father, a well-to-do merchant,
was communal leader of Franconian Jewry. Like his brother, he was
appointed dayyan in Fuerth but Aryeh Loeb was at the same
time rabbi of Baiersdorf in Bavaria. From 1789 he was rabbi of Bamberg,
where his duties included that of civil judge. While there he was
involved in an unpleasant lawsuit when the heirs of a large estate of
which he was appointed executor accused him of abusing his office,
exacting illegal fees, and not accounting for certain expenditure. He
was acquitted of dishonesty, but made to pay a fine. The publication of
the relevant documents by Eckstein (see bibl.) shows that the charges
were groundless. In 1794 Berlin was appointed chief rabbi of
Hesse-Kassel, but owing to the opposition of his detractors in Bamberg
he was unable to leave and did not assume his post until the following
year. When the kingdom of Westphalia, with Kassel as its capital, was
created by Napoleon in 1807 and given to Jerome Bonaparte, Berlin
delivered a sermon in Hebrew welcoming the new king and composed a hymn
of praise in Hebrew (published under the title Davar be-Itto Mah
Tov, with a German translation, Kassel, 1807). In 1808, when the
jewish consistory was organized on the basis of the French
consistories he was appointed chief rabbi of the kingdom. The president
of the consistory was israel jacobsohn , and Berlin, despite the
protests of the more extreme rabbis, agreed to certain relaxations of
the strict laws of Passover, in particular permitting the eating of peas
and beans on Passover.
Berlin's annotations to the Talmud appear in the three volumes of the
Fuerth edition (1829–32) which were published, and his annotations to
the tractate Shevu'ot are in the Romm-Vilna edition. Some of
his novellae appear as an appendix to his brother's Aẓei
Almuggim (Sulzbach, 1779).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Eckstein, Geschichte des Juden im ehemaligen Fuerstbistum
Bamberg (1898), 176–9, and Nachtraege (1899), 3–44; E. Kohn,
Kinat Soferim (1892), 896f.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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