Naphtali Zwi Juda Berlin

Naphtali Zwi Juda Berlin ( Hebrew נפתלי צבי יהודה ברלין, Acronym הַנְּצִי"ב, transliterated NeZIV ; * November 20, 1816 in Mir, Belarus ; † August 10, 1893 in Warsaw ) was a Russian rabbi , Halachist and Talmud and Torah commentator .

From 1854 until its closure in 1892, Berlin was the Rosh Yeshiva, the yeshiva of Waloschyn , Possek and an important champion of the Chovevei Zion movement , which immediately preceded political Zionism .

His sons were the rabbis Chaim Berlin and Meir Bar-Ilan (who later became the Misrachi leader).

Honor

In his honor, a kibbutz ʿEin ha-NeZIV ( Hebrew: Hebrew ) was founded four kilometers south of Beith She'an in 1946 עֵין הַנְּצִי"ב; translated as: source of NeZIV ) called.

literature

Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume I. 1925, p. 332
Jewish Lexicon . Volume I. Berlin 1927, Col. 897.

Individual evidence

↑ The Hebrew «" », which indicates an acronym, is represented by the capitalization of the initials N [aphthali], Z [vi], I [ehudah] (dasיcan be like "i" in the original, but always j) and V (dasב is always like «v» or «w» at the end of a syllable, but always B [erlin]) at the beginning of a syllable.

↑ Hanna Liss : Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible , University Publishing House C. Winter, 3rd edition, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 393

^ Jacob J. Schacter: Haskalah, Secular Studies and the Close of the Yeshiva in Volozhin in 1892

↑ Avraham Lewensohn, Travel Guide Israel with road maps and city maps , Miriam Magal (ex.), Tel Aviv-Yapho: Tourguide, 1982, p. 116.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Berlin, Naphtali Zwi Juda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berlin, Naphtali Zvi Juda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Me (Belarus)
DATE OF DEATH	August 10, 1893
Place of death	Warsaw

[1] The Hebrew «" », which indicates an acronym, is represented by the capitalization of the initials N [aphthali], Z [vi], I [ehudah] (dasיcan be like "i" in the original, but always j) and V (dasב is always like «v» or «w» at the end of a syllable, but always B [erlin]) at the beginning of a syllable.