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Aaron ben Hayylm Aaron ben Joseph ha-Levi Almrou" (Aaron's

THE

JEWiail ou

Ili'uil). I'oiiimeiituries

.losliua

simple cxphimitions of words (iHnlidt), llie other being of a honiiletic character ((Unm/i): (2)"K()rban Aharon" (Aaron's OtTerinir). a connnenlary on the Sifra; (H) "iMidilot Aharoii" (Aaron's Rules), an important treatise on the thirteen hermeiiewlic rules, jierhaps the only adequate treatment of this diltieull sulijeet All three were i)ul>lished at Veniee in in exislenee. Itidll, and went thron(;h a seeond edition at Dessau Aaron's lesponsa were published in jNIorin lli'i. decai ha Levi's " Darke Noam." Veniee. ItiitT. While

ami Judst'S

in a

double form,

Aaron lectured

at Venice.

out,' (•(iiitjuniiijr

in several of the confrrepi-

tions; and when the news of his death reached that citv the famous ineachers A/.ariah Kigo ("Binah la'Ittiin," l.xxii.) and .ludali Aryeh of Modeua delivered eulogistic addresses concerning him.

BiBi.ioGRAPnY

MIcliael,

Or

/i<(-J./(ij/(;i»i,

Nu.^-;

Fiirst,

BiliL

^a„...m j^j

AARON BEN HATYIM

j^

cxegete who lived ill the lirst half of ihe nineteenth century at Grodno, Russia. lie wrote " Moreli Derek " (lie VVlio Shows the Way), tracing the e.xodusof the Israeliles

An

from E.gypt. their wanderings in (he desert, and the Appartitionof Canaan antong tiie Twelve Tribes. pended to this work is a colored map of Palestine. The book was pulilished at Grodno iu 1836. BniLUKiK.vriiv: lieuiarnl), (Iznr tui-f!i:(arim,

ISI.N

IIl.N.

II

(ralleil

The

Saint):

.Xi

phew

of ."-^imcon of

(

'oiii'V

Ic-

nourished about 1200. In 1227. af(er having compared all the cojv ies of the French Mal.izor he could obtain, he wrote the Mahzor. Code I'ri, No. 22"). to which he added a commentary consisting chiefly of compilations of written and liaditional explanations from his uncle Ephraim ben Menahem. and from Shemaiah bar Isaac, Closes ben Kalonvnuis lia-Zaken, and JlesliullambarSimson("Cat. Bcidl. Ilebr. MSS."No. Xeubatier thinks that .MS. Xo. 120!) in the 1200). same collection is a shorter form of the .same compilation. Aaron seems to have known some Arabic, and quotes French and German words. BlBI.I(>CrR.pnv: Ziinz. Hide. p. 191: Neubauer, Cat. B(i(U. Hebr. MSS. Nos. law and law. K. C'lia(eau

and of

.lacoli of C'orbeil;

AARON BEN ISAAC DE LA PAPA. See .Vakon NAr in AARON BEN ISAAC OF RECHNITZ (mod-

L. Rai'a.

i-.in

Rohoncz, Hungary): Autlior of a midrasliie Commen(ar} on tlii' Hilile, the tirst portionof which (Genesis) was published in 17SG at Sulzbaeh under the title "Bet Aharon" (House of Aaron). ern

BiBI.IocBArny: Benjarnb. Osnc ha-f:rfarim, liihlitttUeca Frudlaiidhiud, No, V£^.

p.

70; Wiener,

L. G.

AARON BEN ISAAC SASON:

Author and

Conslantiiiople in 1629. He was a grandson of Aaron ben .losejih Sason, an eminent Talmudist, and cousin of H",vyim Benveniste, the famous scholar. Aaron ('u|iino, rabtii of Constantinople, was his teacher in Talmudic lore, and was so successful that at the age of twenty his pu])il engaged in Talmudic controversies with Moses Benveniste, who thought them worthy of publication. The great Palestinian Pilpulist, Judali Rozancs. re-

Talmiidisl

born

ill

ferred with respect to an unpublished work, "Hen Veshallah," by R. Aaron. 'Whether the work "Sefat Einet " siiould be credited to R. Aaron or to his grandfather, Aaron ben Joseph, is uncertain. The Shabbethai latter is more probably its author. Bass, the only writer who mendons that iiarticular book, in his "Sifte Vesheiiim," throws no light on this qtiestiou, merely mentioning that it is by Aaron

See Aaron" hen

Sa.s(m.

.Ioski-ii S.s()n.

Or

)m-/.f(i)/)/i'm,No. 29S: Ha-EKlihnl (ciirveliiiiedla), <ol. 4.i7; Benja'cob. (>j<ir Ua-Scfiiriiii. Nci. 4l.'i. ji. 141; ihid. No. VJKi. |). BOS; Azulal, .S/itm ;ia-«t</'i(i»i. e<l. lienjacob, p. 19.

BniLiooRAPny:

MIcliael.

L. G.

AARON, ISRAEL:

American rabbi: born at His father was a naLancaster. I'a.. Nov. 20. 18.")i>. tive of lesse- Darmstadt, when' he served many years in the army, holding several minor military oflici's. After leaving (he High School Israel. Aaron entered From the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati. 1883 to 1887 he was rabbi at Fort AVayne, Ind., and I

He has writsince 1887 has been at BulTalo. N. Y. ten on "The Kelation of (he .lews and Arabs to the Uenaissance." and "The Megillali of Saragossa." in (he ".Menorah": also (ranslations of Franz Delitzsch's "Colors in the Talmud" and J. Stern's "Woman's Place in the Talmud "

Bibliography: 0«rCoi<»()/

(Erte)

nml

ita

Pcnptc, BulTalo,

F. S. -W.

AARON IBN HAYYIM ((he Yoiin,ger). See l:oN AARON BEN HATYIM ABRAHAM HAKOHEN PERAHYAH. See Peu.i.iy.ii, A.Mtux WVIM Am;iii ii.-Ivoiii;n. AARON BEN HAYYIM HA-KOHEN .

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p. '.W.

M. B.

H WVIM.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

AARON BEN ISRAEL BRODA. Sec BnoDA. .ai!on i;kn Im: AARON BEN JACOB BEN DAVID HAKOHEN French lilualisi; one of a family of m:i,.

Narbonue, France (not Liinel, as Coiifor(e and odiers say), who was a sulTerer by He emigrated the expulsion of the Jews in 130{i. to Majorca, and there, some time before 1327, composed a ritual work of great merit bearing the title "Orl.iot Ilayyim" (The Padis of Life). "The lirs( I)ar( deals chiefly wi(h (he laws concerning (he daily prayers, the Salibath. anil the festivals, and was published in Florence in 1752; the si'coiid. and larger,

.scholars living at

part

now being

is

editeil

The

by M. Schle.singer.

rather a comiiilation of Talmudic laws and discussions than an original system, and was conceived on a plan similar to Jacob ben Asher's great code, the " Arba'ah Tiirini." which aiipeared soon afterward and supersedei it as a ritual guide on aecoiiii( The "Orhol Hayof its more iiractieal character. yini." however, contains some ethical and doctrinal chapters which are not found in Jacob lien Asher's code. Aaron ha-Kohen was especially fond of mysA less strict tic lore and of rabbinical discussion.

work

is

I

than his more famous contemporary, his is of greater value to the student of literature than to one who seeks practical legalist

"Orhot Ilayyim"

decisions.

of the work, under the name of Bo" All Isin 1( ). a thesaurus, compiled most probably by Shemariah ben Sinihali, a German scholar (according to others by Joseph ben Tobiali

An abridgment

"Kill

I

of Provence),

came

into

common

use, replacing the

original work, BiBLio(iRAPHY : Gross. /Inrnn ha-Kohcn <trhi<t

Iftumm.

Idein. Oaliia

No.

3110

in ilonatsvclirifl .

Iien.1aeoli, (_>zar

tmd «f in Rihtahvcrli

1S(19,

pp, iSS^.W,

.>il-.'>41

Michael. Or )ia-li(tyili>ii. lia-Scfarim, pp. 51, 2:39.

Judaica. pp.

-"911.

4211;

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AARON BEN JACOB HA-LEVI HORO'WITZ.

See Ilonowirz,

A.vuon hen J.vcou

ii.v

Levi.

AARON BEN JACOB OF KARLIN:

among

the Hasiui.m as Rabbi

Known

Aaron the Great, or