Zvi Zamoscz

Zvi Zamoscz , also Hirschel Benjamin Samoscz , Hirsch Samotsch or Zevi Hirsch b. Benjamin Baschko (born 1740 in Zamość , Kingdom of Poland ; died on September 21, 1807 in Altona / Elbe ), Denmark was a rabbi , Kabbalist and teacher .

Live and act

Zvi Zamoscz was a son of Benjamin-Baschko b. Jakob Ludmir, who was considered rich and educated and whose brother and father worked as chief rabbi in Cracow. After visiting the yeshiva in his native city, he married Sara Rachel (1752–1830) in 1758, whose father Joseph was a rabbi. In 1766 he took a position as Dayan in Tyszowce (Tischwitz) and in 1770 moved to Osoblaha (Hotzenplotz), Austrian Silesia, as a rabbi . He then worked in Zülz , Upper Silesia (then Prussian), and from 1773 in Brody , Galicia (then Austria-Hungary). Here he and Ezekiel Landau wrote the diatribes Forced Divorce and Messenger in an Inadmissible Cause . From 1796 he headed the chief rabbinate in Glogau , where he founded an important yeshiva.

In 1799, Zamoscz stood unsuccessfully for election as chief rabbi of the triune community of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek . Three years later he ran again successfully and also directed an important yeshiva in Hamburg . In 1804 he asked the city to abolish the three-day extended burial period, as the seven-day "great mourning" that began after the burial would thus last at least three days longer. Together with Akiba Eger and Abraham Tiktin , he wrote treatises on the Talmud and wrote many responses that were quoted in the works of other rabbis. He also created many works that went unprinted. He was the last chief rabbi of the triune community.

After his death in 1807, the Jewish community did not reoccupy the chief rabbinate, which Napoleon dissolved in 1812. Zamoscz received an epitaph . His wife also died in Altona. Their son Moses took over a rabbinate in Tomaszow, their son Judah Loeb a rabbinate in Komarno. One daughter married the Zülz rabbi Elieser Lippmann.

Zvi Zamoscz was buried with his wife in the Jewish cemetery on Königsstrasse . On his tombstone it said:

“Here is buried our Lord, our teacher, our rabbi, the raban of the whole diaspora, the great and famous Raw and Gaon, who was at the same time a 'Charif' and a 'Baqi', a Hasid, Kabbalist and holy man of God, the wise and Humble, a lamp, a prince and a judge who, as head of a yeshiva, had the Torah stored in Israel, wrote many unpublished writings on the Talmud, codices and the Bible, as well as responses, and lit the eyes of the Diapora so that it was not before or after it had his kind. "

Fonts

• Nahalath Zivhē Sevī. Commentary on Jakob Weil : Sh'chitot u-W'dikot (“Slaughter and Investigation”, first edition Prague 1549), Frankfurt am Main 1784.
• Tif'äräth Sevī. Responsen, Volume I: ed. by his son Moses, Warsaw 1807-1811, Volume II: ed. by Issaschar Meisels, Józefow 1867.
• Commemorative speech about Raphael Cohen. In: Elieser Katzenellenbogen: ZächärSaddīq. Altona 1805.
• Responses in the appendix to: Samuel b. Moses Pinchas [Falkenfeld]: BēthŠemū'el'Aharōn. Nowidwor 1806.
• Responses in: MS Kohn: Bigdē Kehunnāh.
• Halachic correspondence with Ezekiel Landau in his: Nōdā 'bĪhūdāh.
• Halachic correspondence with Akiba Eger, in his responses, I, no.105.
• Thirty-six approvals, see Leopold Löwenstein : Mafteah ha-haskāmōth. Index Approval. Frankfurt am Main 1923; Reprinted in Hildesheim and New York 2003.

literature

• Michael Studemund-Halévy: Zamoscz, Zvi . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 390 .
• Moritz Steinschneider : Catalogus librorum Hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, jussu curatorum digessit et notis instruxit. Volume II: Auctores. Berlin 1852-1861, Col. 2751.
• Heinrich Graetz : History of the Jews from the oldest times to the present. Volume XI, Leipzig 1869; 3rd edition edit. by Marcus Brann, Leipzig undated [1893], p. 562.
• Samuel Joseph Fuenn: Kenäsäth Yiśrā'el. Zichrōnōth lethōledōth gedōle Yiśrā'el ha-nōda'īm lešem be thōrathām, be håchmathām, bema'aśēhäm mīmōth ha-ge'ōnīm'ad ha-dōr ha-tenah. Warsaw 1886-1890, p. 280ff.
• Joseph Jacobs, M. Seligsohn: ZAMOSZ, ẒEBI HIRSCH BEN BENJAMIN in the Jewish Encyclopedia 1906, online
• Johann Maier : History of the Jewish Religion. Berlin 1971; revised edition Freiburg 1992, p. 481.
• Raphael Halperin: 'Atlās' Es Hayyīm: Sedär ha-dōrōth lehachmē Yiśrā'el. Vol. IX ('Aharōnīm IIIb) Ha-dōrōth ha-ri' šōnīm šäl te qūfath ha-h asīdūth, 5520-5610 (1760-1850). Jerusalem 1982, p. 123.
• Peter Freimark: The development of the rabbinate after the death of Jonathan Eibenschütz (1764) up to the dissolution of the three congregation AHU (1812). In: Peter Freimark and Arno Herzig (eds.): The Hamburg Jews in the Emancipation Phase 1780-1870. Hamburg 1989, p. 10.
• Franz D. Lucas and Margret Heitmann : City of Faith. History and culture of the Jews in Glogau. Hildesheim and New York 1991, p. 244.
• Astrid Louven: The Jews in Wandsbek. 2nd edition Hamburg 1991, p. 79.
• Entry SAMOTSCH, Hirsch. 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, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 773f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustration in: Goldschmidt, 1912, panel V; quoted from: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part I, pp. 773f.