EPSTEIN, ARYEH LEIB BEN MORDECAI
- EPSTEIN, ARYEH LEIB BEN MORDECAI
- EPSTEIN, ARYEH LEIB BEN MORDECAI (1705–1775), rabbi and
kabbalist. Epstein was born in Grodno and was a pupil of Isaac of
Grodno, Poland, and Aryeh Leib b. Nathan of Slutsk. After a brief period
as a merchant he took up the position of preacher in Grodno and in 1741
became rabbi in Berestovitsa and Golynka. In 1745 he went to
Koenigsberg, where he developed an extensive educational system. He
sided with jonathan eybeschuetz in the latter's dispute with
jacob emden , sharply criticizing the bickering in rabbinical
circles. Two inquiries which he sent to Eybeschuetz in 1758 are extant,
the one dealing with a halakhic matter, the other with the liturgy.
Epstein was responsible for the introduction of a number of important
takkanot in the Koenigsberg community and also for the
establishment of the Great Synagogue there.
His works include Or ha-Shanim, on the 613 commandments
(Frankfurt on the Oder, 1754); Sefer ha-Pardes, consisting of
novellae to tractate Shabbat; sermons; funeral orations; a
treatise on positive and negative commandments called Yalkut Sakhar
va-Onesh, with an appendix entitled Kunteresha-Re'ayot
on Shulḥan Arukḥ, Oraḥ Ḥayyim (Koenigsberg, 1764); and
Mishnat Gur-Aryeh, a commentary on isaac luria 's
prayer book (published in part only, Koenigsberg, 1765). He also
published his responsa under the title Teshuvot Maharal
(Morenu ha-Rav R. Aryeh Leib; ibid., 1769); wrote glosses to
the Talmud (together with his son Abraham Meir); glosses and novellae to
Shulḥan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah, to which his son also contributed
(Vilna, 1883); and several other works.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J. Emden, Mitpaḥat Sefarim (Lemberg, 1870), 119; D. Kahana,
Toledot ha-Shabbeta'im ve-ha-Ḥasidim, 2 (1914), 57; S.A.
Friedenstein, Ir Gibborim (1880), 41, 44ff., 47–50; E.M.
Epstein, Gevurot ha-Ari (18882); H.N. Maggid
(Steinschneider), Ir Vilna (1900), 44; Sefer Yahadut
Lita, 3 (1967), 30.
(Samuel Abba Horodezky)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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