HOROWITZ, SAUL ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM HA-LEVI
- HOROWITZ, SAUL ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM HA-LEVI
- HOROWITZ, SAUL ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM HA-LEVI (1828–1915),
Jerusalem rabbi. Horowitz was born in Vilna where his father was rabbi.
He married the daughter of David Tevele b. Nathan of Minsk. From 1865 he
was rabbi of Dubrovno, whence the name "the Dubrovno rabbi," by which he
was known. He made himself responsible for many of his pupils' material
needs, a burden which caused him great anxiety. In 1883 he moved to Ereẓ
Israel and settled in Jerusalem, where he served as rabbi of the Me'ah
She'arim quarter. In 1885 he founded there a talmud torah
called Peri Eẓ Ḥayyim and the large yeshivah Me'ah She'arim. The
bet midrash was also designed "for the purpose of giving
instruction to business men and laymen of Me'ah She'arim and its
vicinity." In his introduction to the book of regulations of the Peri Eẓ
Ḥayyim talmud torah society (1885), he states that on coming
to Jerusalem he felt the lack of a general fund for facilitating
instruction to the children of the poor and founded the society to meet
that need from the funds of which the salaries of teachers would be paid
(p. 5). He was closely associated with the Orthodox group founded by
joshua leib diskin and served as head of the sheḥitah
committee established by him. During World War I he was
imprisoned for a time by the Turkish authorities, together with his
nephew Joseph Gershon Horowitz, on the charge of distributing lottery
tickets for a plot of land in Ḥaderah. Among his publications were
Kelilat Sha'ul (1879), a methodology of 310 talmudic topics
with a commentary entitled Mekor Ḥayyim: Miẓpeh Sha'ul; a
pamphlet appended to part two of the Naḥalat David (1882) of
David Tevele of Minsk, containing six of his sermons; Yad
Sha'ul (published together with part one of Naḥalot
David (1864) by David Tevele); and Peri Eẓ Ḥayyim, an
appendix to Tevele's Beit David (1904), containing his
novellae.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J.G. Horowitz, in: P. Grajewsky, Bi-She'arayikh Yerushalayim,
no. 3 (1937); J.J. Rivlin, Me'ah She'arim (1947), 89f.,
190f.; J.A. Weiss, Bi-She'arayikh Yerushalayim (1949), 261 no. 1;
Tidhar, 8 (1957), 3099.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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