Abraham Bing

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Abraham Bing (born 1752 in Frankfurt am Main ; died March 1, 1841 in Würzburg ) was a regional rabbi (chief rabbi) in Franconia .

Life

Abraham Bing was the son of Enosh Halevi Bing.

After his rabbi training with Pinchas Horowitz and Nathan Adler , Bing was initially a Talmud teacher in Frankfurt and from 1769 to 1778 a teacher of Jewish religion at the Klaus von Offenbach am Main . From 1778 to 1796 he worked as a judge (Dajjan) at the Beth Din in Frankfurt. From 1798 to 1814 he was elected regional rabbi for the rabbinical district of Würzburg, which comprised almost all of Lower Franconia with the exception of the Aschaffenburg area, with its seat in Heidingsfeld (from 1814 in Würzburg). From October 14, 1813 until his departure at the beginning of 1839, Bing had his official residence in Würzburg and was the head of a large yeshiva (religious college). “A large number of students flocked to Würzburg [...] to hear his learned words. Among the most important of the later to become among Altona Chief Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger , who later became London's chief rabbi Nathan [Marcus] Adler , the Hamburger Chochom Is [aak] Bernays , R [abbi] Eliezer Bergmann and [...] Seligman Baer Bamberger . "His house of study in Würzburg, whose students (rabbinate candidates) mostly also attended the Würzburg University from around 1815, succeeded the Fürth yeshiva, which was closed in 1826.

He was an opponent of the emerging reform Judaism at the beginning of the 19th century and an influential proponent of Orthodoxy . Correspondingly, his students also took on a decisive role in orthodox teaching in Germany in the 19th century. These included u. a. the rabbis Lazarus Adler , Nathan Marcus Adler, Seligmann Bär Bamberger (whom Bing himself had chosen as his successor in Würzburg), Isaak Bernays and Jakob Ettlinger.

Rabbinate candidates studying at Bing had founded the Dibbuk Chawerim ("Association of Friends") and a preaching association in 1827 .

An Orthodox catechism for schools was created for the first time under Bing's supervision . Until the end of 1839 Bing practiced his activity as a rabbi who understood himself as a scholar and judge until he was put into retirement against his will by the state authorities before he died a year later. Bing was the first Jew from Würzburg to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Höchberg - like many Würzburg rabbis after him.

literature

  • Entry BING, Abraham. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, p. 192 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Gehring-Münzel: The Würzburg Jews from 1803 to the end of the First World War. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, pp. 499-528 and 1306-1308, here: p. 514.
  2. ↑ It was not until the middle of 1813 that the Jews were allowed to resettle in Würzburg again (see also: Bavarian Jewish Edict of 1813 ).
  3. ↑ Herz Bamberger, history of the rabbis of the city and the district of Würzburg , Simon Bamberger (ed., Comp.), Wandsbek: Goldschmidt, 1905, p. 65. Omissions and additions in square brackets not in the original.
  4. ↑ Ursula Gehring-Münzel: The Würzburg Jews from 1803 to the end of the First World War. 2007, p. 519.
  5. ↑ Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871 , KG Saur Verlag GmbH, Munich, 2004, page 192
  6. ↑ Ursula Gehring-Münzel: The Würzburg Jews from 1803 to the end of the First World War. 2007, p. 514 f.
personal data
SURNAME Bing, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1841
Place of death Wurzburg