Aaron ben Meir of Brest Aaron of Fesaro
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AARON BEN MOSES MEIR PERLS. Mum- Mi.ii:, Aaiihn AARON MOSES BEN MORDECAI Oiicnf
Sec
I'Kiii.s,
i;i:n
tlir
liu- <alKilisl ir
writns
Prussia: aiillKir nl'a work,
"
dc'cai"(T)i<' Sdiil (jl'Sdlumon
nl
ri'inil
limes in Kast
Nishinat Sliclnmiili JlorMonlrcai: .lohaiiiiislicr!.',
ISo^), socallrd ill R'liiciiiliraiicc cil' liis son. who diuil On the titli'iiage tlio statement in early cliiklliiiiiil.
made that the work is a commentary on M. II. Liizzatto's • Hoki'r u-Mekublial " indeed tlic text of Aaron used this treatise is printed in thi; vohirae. the name of Luzzatto merely to jrive greater vojiue to liis own liook. lieeauso of the waning influenee In reality. of tlio ('al>ala in Poland at the time. Aaron's work is a eoninieiilary on Ihe " 'Ez I.Iay" of Hayyim Vital, the arch apostle of the ealiayini Aaron Moses states {I.e. p. listic school of Liiria. 4G((I thai he was the author also of a commentary on the Midrash Taiihuina. entitled "Zebed Tob " (A Goodly Gift). This has U(M been printed. is
Bini.iOf;RAPnY: Benjacnh, (>znr hn-Stfarim,]^yi. 40."> ami 1.">1, where the ia.st work Is wronp'lv a.s('i!l)eil to Dob Baer of Sloiiiui.
L. G.
AARON BEN MOSES MOSESSOHN. Sec MiisKs. Mosi.--iiiiN Am:o AARON MOSES PADUA. SceP.vnuA, Aabon MosKAARON ben MOSES TEOMIM Kabbinir.i.N
,
from personal motives. Bacharach, the son and grandson of former rabbis of Worms, living in that city after he had lost his i>ositiou in Coblenz, had hoped lo succeed his father; and he wished to show that the congregation had not cho.sen a better man. Bachaiacli's interesting criticism was published by Jellinek in the first volume of "Bikkurim," a periodical edited by Naphtali Keller. BlBI.ior.RAPHT J. M. Zunz. '/r hn-?ei1eh: p. 132. Lemhere, 1871 Fuemi. Kniivit Yixrnii, p. ,H.s,Wai>i:ivv. Is,s0; Demliiizer, Kcliliil Vnti. it. 7l>. CTaeow. LsiB: Kaufmann, JairChidm Biic)iiirnrli. pp. 'A it Hfq., Treves, ISW.
D.
AARON BEN MOSES BEN ZEBI HIRSCH
TEOMIM.
See Tko.mim,
.V.vuo.n
AARON BEN NATHAN NATA' OF TREBOWLA .ullHir: llourisljed ibe iniddle nf .ibou'l
the eigllleelitli celltMry.
He
pillilished at Zolkiev. in
17o.j, "Sliem Aharon " (Aaron's Name), a work containing halakic novell.-e to the whole Talmud, and midrasliic interpretations of the Pentateuch under the sub-title, "Xetibot la-Slieliet.'" He also published a commentary on Talniudic discussions on the Pentateuch, which bears the title "Maklo shel
Aharon
"
(Aaron's Stalf)an<l was published in 1708.
BiBi.mfiR,rnv:
Filrst. giftiriiii. pp. 3«», )»!.
Bihl. Jtid.
1.
2o; Beiijacob.
which overcame him on Passover evening. lOT.'i. lie V(jwe<l he would write a commentary on the Hag
On his if lie should be restored to luallli. recovery he published this coinmenlaiy under the ' .>lat!eh Aharon " (Aaron's Uodi, Frank fori on tillithcMain, HiTS. .Vnother work. "liigde Aharon" (Aaron's Vestments), homilies on the Peiitalcuch, was published after Ihe aullior's death al FrankHis "Glosses on Shullian fort -on-llie-JIain. 171II. 'Aruk, Hoslien Mishpat" remained in manuscript. Kesponsji of his aii' found in Ihe collections of .lair gndali
Havvim Uacliaiaeh, "llawwot Vair," and in those of kliakim Goclz b. Meir of llildeslieim. " Kbeii haSlioham." In 11177 .aron received a call lo Lissa in Poland, which he ileilined; but in Ki'.lll he accepted He was a call lo the rabbinical seal of Cracow. there but lliree nioiilbs whin a Polish nobleniaii. probably in order lo blackmail the congn'galion. ordered his arrest in Chiiielnik, wliither he had gone to alleiid the congregational Meeting of the Four Lands 8,
Piilll,
he
hurrii'd to
(.Vitn.V Ait.Z"T).
On
Sabbath, July
was
arresled, phu-ed on horseback, and prison. Hi' fell olT the hor.se several
limes and was as nfleii remounlcil. Before the jail was reached lie had died of fright and ill-treatment. He was buried at Pinleliov. As a eharacler and as a rabbinical scholar. Aaron
Teomiin did not
rise
above the
AARON OF NEUSTADT (surnamed BLUMraliiiudiM who with Slialluni and .laekc of Vienna formed a Iriumvirate of Talmudic scholars in Austria at Ihe end of Ihe fourteenth and beginning of the tifteenth century; uncle and chii'f instruclor of Isserleiii, who frecpient ly alluiles in his works lo the decisions and opinions of his teacher. Jacob Mijllii .Maluirillalso refers lo him and his colleagues. Aaron sulfered thedealh of a martyr, at Vienna, on Jlarch i;i. U'^l. He wrote a digest, "Hilkot Xiddali," which is mentioned by Isserleiu. A collection of sermons by Aaron is now known only llirough three citations in the works of Jacob JIdilu and of
LEINi:
I
(
Isserlein.
A.Berliner, In Mimatsschrtft, 1809, p. 134; Iia-Hauillm, No. 277.
Biiu.iOfiR.piiY:
Mkliael.
Or
L. G.
AARON BEN PEREZ OF AVIGNON: Ficneh
r.ililii .iiiil seholar: lioiii about lie middle of the Ihirteenlh ceiilury; died in llie llist quarter of Ihe fourleeiilh cenlury. He was one of the leading scholars of Argeiiliere, Languedoc, France. Willi olhcr inllueiitial niembers of the congregation of Argeiitieie, he signed an address to Solomon ben Adiet during Ihe great anti-Maimonist controversy of lliO:}-!!."). The address, with Ihe signatures, can be found in .Vbba Mari Don Aslruc's "Miuliat lyenaol," This appeal was inlended to eiiiourage Abba p. -17. .Mari in his efl'orls to stem the tide of false doctrines rapidly spreading among the younger scholars. I
BiBI.IOfjRAPIIY Ri-nnn, GtUtia Juilaica^ p. (>7.
poraries. In his mbbinical works, Tiomini is a typPilptdist. His sclmlaslic discourses are in accordance with the vogue of that age. That his theories, as exhibited in his Irealment of Ihe Haggailali. were appreciatid by his conlempoiaries, is proved by the fact Ihal his llaLTgadah was reprinled three liiiics: at .Vnislerdain. in l(i!)."); al Frankfort on Ihi-Main, in 1710: at Amslerdam, in 17r2. A severe crilicism which Jair Hayyim Hacharach
M.
AARON OF PESARO
p.
O'o
F.— L.
Gross,
G.
Flourished in the sixlei mil leiii uiy al Pesaio, Italy, and wrole "Toledot .Miaroii " (The (teneralions of .aron). an index lo Scriptural quotalionsin the Talmud, arranged in Ihe order of the Bible. This was lirsl printed at Frei burg in l.'iSH. and, in an abbreviated form, is found in
rabbinic Bibles.
UUU.IOOR.VPIIV Mli'linol.Or )iii-/ri»Mi"i. No. der. (•<!(. Uwll. No. 41177.
wrole under Ihe title •^Ia!(eh .Vharon." and which did not dare to publish, was certainly mil free
lie
Lcs Rahbtiis Fiau<;aiii,
level of his conleni-
ical
lia-
L. G.
cal scholar; linni almut Ui:in. pmliably in Prague, where the Teoiiiiiii Knliikcl faniilv. from Vienna. Imd setth-d; died in Chnielnik. Poland, .Iiily 8. l(ii)l). In UiTi) he was called as ralibi to Worms, where he succeeded Samson liailiarach. Prior lo this he had In a serious illness been a preacher at Prague.
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