ELIEZER BEN MEIR HA-LEVI OF PINSK
- ELIEZER BEN MEIR HA-LEVI OF PINSK
- ELIEZER BEN MEIR HA-LEVI OF PINSK (second half
18th century), rabbi and darshan. A descendant of
samuel edels (Maharsha), Eliezer was rosh yeshivah in
Pinsk in the 1760s and 1770s, and, in the early 1780s, rabbi and av
bet din in Chomsk (Khomsk). Returning to Pinsk in the late 1780s,
he served as the rabbi of that city and of its kloyz (a type
of bet ha-midrash). In this latter period, he became involved
in a dispute in connection with a ḥasidic leader, Aaron ha-Gadol. The
Maggid dov ber of mezhirech sent a letter to
Eliezer in which he requested that they unite in one group together with
Aaron. The exact nature of this dispute is not known; some think that
Eliezer was sympathetic to the Ḥasidim.
Eliezer wrote two homiletic works, Si'aḥ ha-Sadeh (Shklov,
1787) and Re'aḥ ha-Sadeh (ibid., 1795), the first containing
one sermon for each weekly Torah portion, and the second, two for each
weekly Torah portion. The sermons, primarily ethical and moralistic in
tone, are concerned with repentance in the realm of the
mitzvot between man and God. Eliezer often uses kabbalistic
symbols.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Nadav, in: Zion, 34 (1969), 101–4; W.Z. Rabinowitsch,
Lithuanian Ḥasidism (1970), index.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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