ELIEZER BEN MANASSEH BEN BARUCH
- ELIEZER BEN MANASSEH BEN BARUCH
- ELIEZER BEN MANASSEH BEN BARUCH (mid-18th
century), preacher in western Russia and author of an ethical work. In
his youth, Eliezer spent some time studying in Berlin. It is not known
who his teachers were or what he studied there. After some years of
traveling, he was appointed av bet din in Rozwadow, where he
probably spent most of his life. Later, at the time of the printing of
his book, he was a preacher in the town of Tarnigrad. His Ir
Dammesek Eliezer (Zolkiew,
1764. is, for the most part, a detailed homiletic and halakhic analysis
of the weekly Torah portions. Each homily is divided into two
parts: "Ḥuẓot Dammesek" and "Penei
Dammesek." Very often Eliezer brings lengthy sayings and
rules by contemporary East European rabbis; his work is thus an
important source for their teachings. The second part of this
book, a short ethical work entitled "Sha'arei
Dammesek," contains four sections called she'arim
("gates"). The first deals with the Torah, the second with prayer,
and the third, with repentance; the fourth, "the gate of
Jerusalem," deals mainly with reverence toward and fear of God. To
this last section the author added, at the conclusion of the work,
a collection of homilies on various ethical themes, called
"Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer." Well versed in Kabbalah,
Eliezer often quotes both the Zohar and ethical kabbalistic
literature, in addition to the usual rabbinic sources.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Benjacob, Oẓar, 440.
(Joseph Dan)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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