Eleazar Fleckeles

Eleazar b. David Fleckeles (also Elieser b. David Fleckeles ; born August 26, 1754 in Prague , † April 27, 1826 ibid) was a rabbi , important preacher and Talmudist.

Fleckeles was a pupil of Ezechiel Landau , whom he recognized as a master for life. In 1779 he was appointed rabbi to Kojetein and later to Tobitschau in Moravia and in 1783 a member of Landaus Beth Din . As a rabbi in Prague, he later drew attention to himself with his sermons. There he led an intense fight against the Frankists and enjoyed a high reputation over the years as a rabbi and Jewish leader.

As an important representative of Jewish Orthodoxy, Fleckeles led a campaign against Moses Mendelssohn , Hartwig Wessely and the Haskala . He was an opponent of any reform of traditional Jewish teaching and enlightenment ideas. He criticized the "new freedoms" that spawned new sins, such as the neglect of Torah study in favor of other sciences.

His literary production in the field of Jewish learning was great, among which his collections of responses and the sermons, also published in several volumes, deserve special mention.

literature

Jacob Katz: The Suggested Relationship between Sabbatianism, Haskalah, and Reform , in: Ders .: Divine Law in Human Hands. Case Studies in Halakhic Flexibility, Jerusalem 1998, pp. 504-530.
David Kaufmann : The family tree of R. Eleasar Fleckeles , a sample of ancestry from Moritz Hartmann, in: Monthly Journal for History and Science of Judaism 37 (1893), pp. 378–392. ( Single print from Schottländer , Breslau 1893.)
Salomon Hugo Lieben: Rabbi Eleasar Fleckeles , in: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society 10 (1912), pp. 1–33.

Web links

Solomon Schechter , NT London: FLECKELES, ELEAZAR BEN DAVID. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
Michael K. Silber: Fleckeles, El'azar ben David , in: YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, October 27, 2010.

Individual evidence

^ Louis Jacobs: Theology in the Responsa . The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Routledge / Kegan Paul, London - Boston 1975, p. 206.
↑ Shmuel Feiner: The Jewish enlightenment , trans. Chaya Naor, Jerusalem 2002 / University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2004, pp. 174-175.
^ Jacob Katz: Out of the ghetto: the social background of Jewish emancipation, 1770-1870 . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1973 (reprinted by Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1998), p. 147.

personal data
SURNAME	Fleckeles, Eleazar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fleckeles, Eliezer; Fleckeles, Eleazar Ben David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	April 27, 1826
Place of death	Prague

[1] Louis Jacobs: Theology in the Responsa . The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Routledge / Kegan Paul, London - Boston 1975, p. 206.

[2] Shmuel Feiner: The Jewish enlightenment , trans. Chaya Naor, Jerusalem 2002 / University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2004, pp. 174-175.

[3] Jacob Katz: Out of the ghetto: the social background of Jewish emancipation, 1770-1870 . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1973 (reprinted by Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1998), p. 147.