Raphael Ris

Raphael Ris (also: Raphael Ries ; * May 14, 1728 in Niederhagenthal , Alsace ; † May 25, 1813 in Endingen AG ) was a Swiss rabbi and Kabbalist .

Life

Raphael Ris, son of Abraham Ris, taught after extensive Talmudic studies from around 1768 at the yeshiva of Wolf Reichshofer in Buchsweiler . Around 1784 he was the head of a small yeshiva in Niederhagenthal. In the summer of 1786 he moved from Alsace to Aargau . From then on, he lived in Endingen in the local Surb Valley and was rabbi for Lengnau AG and Endingen from 1788 until his death . His son Abraham Ris succeeded him.

The Ris Hanukkah lamp, which was made in an Augsburg silver workshop in 1804, belongs to the holdings of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel .

Raphael Ris is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Endingen. In the entrance area there is a notice board to make it easier to find the grave he has visited to this day.

literature

• Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis . Edited by Carsten Wilke , part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871. Volume 2 . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , page 743.

Web links

• Endingen and Lengnau (Canton Aargau, Switzerland) - texts / reports on the history of the rabbinate in both places; on www.alemannia-judaica.de
• Raphaël RIS (dénommé aussi Raphaël Hagenthal dans la littérature rabbinique); on www.judaisme.sdv.fr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Raphael Ris's Hanukkah lamp. (No longer available online.) In: Shop Postcards. Jewish Museum of Switzerland , Basel, archived from the original on September 5, 2015 ; Retrieved July 13, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.