HEILPRIN, JEHIEL BEN SOLOMON
- HEILPRIN, JEHIEL BEN SOLOMON
- HEILPRIN, JEHIEL BEN SOLOMON (1660–1746), Lithuanian talmudic
scholar and historian. Heilprin, the son of the rabbi of Sokolov,
studied Kabbalah and, according to legend, performed miracles. He served
as rabbi first in Glussk (Bobruisk district), where his compilation of
rules and regulations for the ḥevra kaddisha were preserved
in his own manuscript for several generations. In 1711 he was appointed
head of the yeshivah in Minsk. His method of teaching the Talmud,
contrary to pilpul, caused friction between him and
aryeh leib b. asher gunzberg , who was also a rosh
yeshivah in Minsk. Aryeh Leib later left Minsk, and Heilprin was
able to continue in his own yeshivah, unhampered, and with the affection
of his pupils.
Heilprin became famous mainly for his historical-chronological book
Seder ha-Dorot (Karlsruhe, 1769), which is divided into three
parts: (a) chronology of events and personages dated from the Creation
to 1696; the biographies and chronologies of the tannaim
and amoraim in alphabetical order; (c) the names of Hebrew
authors and books, listed alphabetically, up to Heilprin's period. In
the first part of this work he made use of stories from the
sefer ha-yashar and the earlier chronological books,
including Ẓemaḥ David by david gans , Sefer
Yuḥasin by Abraham Zacuto, and Shalsft ha-Kabbalah by
Gedaliah ibn Yaḥya. In the third part he used Siftei Yeshenim
by Shabbetai Bass; Heilprin copied the list of books from this work with
all its errors. The second part, devoted to the history of the
tannaim and amoraim, is of utmost importance.
Although Heilprin followed Sefer Yuḥasin in compiling the
list of individuals, the history he wrote was the first modern-type
biography of the tannaim and amoraim, being based
on original research of the talmudic sources. In the introduction to his
book Heilprin discussed the importance of the history of the
tannaim to halakhic decisions.
Seder ha-Dorot was published a second time (Lemberg, 1858)
with comments by Joseph Saul Nathanson, the rabbi of Lemberg. An
improved edition of the book with a preface was later published by
Naphtali Maskil le-Eitan (Maskileison; Warsaw,
1878). Heilprin also published annotations
to the Babylonian Talmud (Vilna, 1880); Erkhei Kinnuyim
(Dyhernfurth, 1806), a work similar to a concordance, listing the nouns
and verbs in the Bible and Talmud: a new edition entitled Kav
Shalom with notes and comments (letters (A–Ḥ) was published by
S.Ẓ. Adler (Satu Mare, 1939).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
N. Maskileison, in: Heilprin, Dorot (18822, repr. 1956),
preface; B.Z. Eisenstadt, Rabbanei Minsk va-Ḥakhameha (1898),
14–16; B.Z. Katz, Rabbanut, Ḥasidut ve-Haskalah (1957), 141.
(Zvi Meir Rabinowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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