JACOB BEN EPHRAIM NAPHTALI HIRSCH OF LUBLIN
- JACOB BEN EPHRAIM NAPHTALI HIRSCH OF LUBLIN
- JACOB BEN EPHRAIM NAPHTALI HIRSCH OF LUBLIN (d. 1644 or
1645), Polish rabbi. Jacob was rabbi of Brest-Litovsk (Brisk) from 1630
to 1635 and subsequently of Lublin, two of the most important Jewish
communities in Poland. In Lublin,
together with his son joshua hoeschel who succeeded him as rabbi
there, he headed a large yeshivah and was considered the greatest
teacher of Talmud study of his generation in Poland. His pupils included
Ḥayyim Heika ha-Levi, rabbi of Hrubieszow, and samuel koidanover .
He was a member of the council of four lands . Several of Jacob's
responsa have been published in the works of his contemporaries and in
those of later scholars. His novellae to the Talmud and the Shulḥan
Arukh have remained in manuscript. The greatest rabbis of his
generation, yom tov lipmann heller and joel sirkes , quote
him in their works.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
I.T. Eisenstadt and S. Wiener, Da'at Kedoshim (1897–98), 88f.
(first pagination); S.B. Nissenbaum, Le-Korot ha-Yehudim
be-Lublin (1899), 38f.; Fuenn, Keneset, 535; A.L. Feinstein,
Ir Tehillah (1886), 25f., 133f., 173 etc.; Halpern, Pinkas,
67, 491f.
(Itzhak Alfassi)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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