EPSTEIN, ISAAC BEN MORDECAI
- EPSTEIN, ISAAC BEN MORDECAI
- EPSTEIN, ISAAC BEN MORDECAI (c. 1780–1857), talmudist and
kabbalist. Epstein, who had already written halakhic works in his youth,
attached himself against the will of his grandfather to chabad
Ḥasidism, and thenceforth devoted himself to the study of Kabbalah and
Chabad teaching, burning his previous halakhic writings. He felt that
only shneur zalman of Lyady, whose favorite pupil he became, was
capable of revealing the innermost secrets of the divine Law. Epstein
served as rabbi of Gomel. In his old age he himself made his debut as a
ẓaddik. In the handling of halakhic problems he took pains to
write in an unpretentious and clear style. He left ten studies on Chabad
teaching including Ma'amar ha-Shiflut ve-ha-Simḥah (1864) and
Ma'amar Yeẓi'at Miẓrayim (1877); the others are in
manuscript. He also wrote homilies for the weekly portions of the Law
and the festivals, some of which were published with his Ma'amar
Yeẓi'at Miẓrayim.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Bermann, in: Keneset ha-Gedolah, ed. by S. Suwalski, 1 pt. 3
(1890), 18–22; I. Heilmann, Beit-Rabbi, 1 (1965, photogr.
reprint of 1902), 136, 165–6, 174–5.
(Samuel Abba Horodezky)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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