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Lase Berlin , also Lase Heilbut , (born September 24, 1740 in Berlin ; died January 22, 1814 in Hamburg ) was a German rabbi .

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Lase Berlin was the son of Joseph ben Lase Halberstadt. He was a student at Tewele Scheuer in Bamberg for a year and a half . Then he went to the yeshiva of Dajan Gedalia in Schwersenz ( Poland-Lithuania ). He was the son-in-law of Todros Munk in Poznan .

In Posen he became a Dajan and head of the yeshiva under Raphael Cohen , whom he followed to Altona / Elbe in 1776 . He later became a Dajan for Wandsbek and Hamburg, then for Altona and Hamburg.

After Cohen's resignation in 1799, Berlin became rabbinical praeses of the so-called triple congregation, consisting of the cities of Hamburg, Altona and Wandsbek and Schleswig-Holstein. On April 26, 1812, on the instructions of the French occupiers , he separated the three communities. After the French annexation of Hamburg on February 18, 1813, he was appointed consistorial chief rabbi of the Bouches de l'Elbe department.

Berlin was buried in the Jewish cemetery Neuer Steinweg ( Hamburg-Neustadt ).

Lase Berlin's son Moses Berlin was the first rabbi of the Löb Schaul- Klaus , founded in 1810, and his son Eisik Berlin has been rabbi at the United Old and New Klaus in Hamburg since 1840.

Fonts (selection)

  • Mišnath de Rabbī'Äli'äzär to Evän hā-'Äzär and Hōšän Mišpā. From the estate, Altona 1815.
  • Damä-śäq'Äli'äzär. Altona 1816.
  • Halachic correspondence with Moses Sofer , see Evän hā-'Äzär , I No. 49.

Literature (selection)

  • Samuel Joseph Fuenn: Kenäsäth Yiśrā'el. Zichrōnōth lethōledōth gedōle Yiśrā'el ha-nōda 'īm lešem bethōrathām, behåchmathām, bema'aśēhäm mīmōth ha-ge'ōnīm' ad ha-dōr ha-zäh [only Aleph to Yod]. Warsaw 1886–1890, p. 122.
  • Eduard Duckesz : Sefer Iwah leMoschaw. Contains biographies and gravestone inscriptions of the rabbis of the 3 communities Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbeck. Eisig Gräber Verlag, Cracow 1903, pp. 83–88.
  • Eduard Duckesz: Family history of Rabbi Lase Berlin in Hamburg. Max Täschner successor publisher, Hamburg 1929.
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. II, Orient Printing House, Czernowitz 1927, p. 139 f.
  • Michael Studemund-Halévy : Bibliography on the history of the Jews in Hamburg. Saur, Munich / New York 1994, ISBN 3-598-11178-9 , p. 110.
  • Entry BERLIN, Lase. 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. 182.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grave inscription in: Eduard Duckesz: Sefer Iwah leMoschaw. Contains biographies and gravestone inscriptions of the rabbis of the 3 communities Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbeck. Eisig Gräber Verlag, Krakow 1903, p. 87.
  2. ↑ Alternative transcriptions of the main title in library catalogs: Ivah le-moshav and Iwoh le-Moschaw .
personal data
SURNAME Berlin, Lase
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halibut, Lase
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1814
Place of death Hamburg