BERLIN, NOAH ḤAYYIM ẒEVI HIRSCH
- BERLIN, NOAH ḤAYYIM ẒEVI HIRSCH
- BERLIN, NOAH ḤAYYIM ẒEVI HIRSCH (1734–1802), German rabbi and
halakhist. Berlin was born in Fuerth and was the son of Abraham Meir
Berlin, the communal leader of Franconia. He became a dayyan
at Fuerth in 1764 and later served as rabbi in Bayersdorf and Bayreuth.
In 1783 Berlin was appointed rabbi of Mainz and the surrounding
district. His appointment was ratified by the prince elector. He
established a yeshivah at Mainz, and lived there until 1799 when he
succeeded Raphael ha-Kohen as the rabbi of the united communities of
Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck. Berlin showed skill and tact in uniting
the various elements in these communities. wolf heidenheim was his
most outstanding pupil. Berlin wrote Aẓei Almuggim (1779), a
commentary on the hand-washing ritual, eruvei ḥaẓerot, and
marriages forbidden by rabbinical enactment; Aẓei Arazim
(1790), a commentary on the Shulḥan Arukh, Even ha-Ezer; Ma'yan
ha-Ḥokhmah (1804), on the 613 commandments (in verse and with a
commentary). This work, unfinished by Berlin, was completed by his
brother aryeh loeb berlin . Two further works, Aẓei
Besamim and Aẓei Levonah, remained unpublished. He
wrote glosses to the tractates of Berakhot (1829),
Shabbat (1832), and Shevuot. The last was
published in the Vilna edition of the Talmud. There is a rational basis
to his explanation of the halakhah, and he makes use of the
Jerusalem Talmud.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fuenn, Keneset, 346; E. Duckesz, Ivah le-Moshav, 1 (1903),
74–77, 139–40, XXVI; I. Wolfsberg, in: Arim
ve-Immahot
be-Yisrael, 2 (1948), 33; idem, Die Drei-Gemeinde
(1966), 66; A. Eckstein, Nachtraege zur Geschichte der Juden im
ehemaligen Fuerstbistum Bamberg (1899), 5; Loewenstein, in:
JJLG, 3 (1905), 233; ibid., 8 (1910), 72.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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