David ben Samuel ha-Levi

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David ben Samuel ha-Levi (* around 1586 in Ludmir; † January 31, 1667 in Lemberg ; acronym Tas after his work Ture Sahaw ) was a rabbi and an important Jewish scholar in the Kingdom of Poland .

Life

He received his education from his brother, Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel ha-Levi . After he took the daughter of the rabbi Joel Serkes as his wife and resided with him for a few years, he moved to Krakow . He was then appointed rabbi of Potelytsch , near Rava-Ruska , where he lived in poverty. He later moved to Poznan for several years and in 1641 as a rabbi in Ostrog . In Ostrog he founded a yeshiva and wrote his most famous work Ture Sahaw ("Shields of Gold"), a commentary on Shulchan Aruch , which he published in Lublin in 1646 and was accepted as one of the highest instances of ceremonial laws. In 1648 he fled with his family to Steinitz , in Moravia , from the crimes committed by the Cossacks during the Khmelnytskyi uprising .

He later returned to Poland and settled in Lviv . There he became chief judge of the Beth Din and after the chief rabbi in Lemberg, Meïr Sack , had died in 1653, his successor.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Louis Ginzberg, Peter Wiernik:  DAVID B. SAMUEL HA-LEVI. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
personal data
SURNAME David ben Samuel ha-Levi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Rabbi and Talmudist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1586
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludmir
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1667
Place of death Lviv