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banking business with his brother. Later, both returned to Vienna, where Menahem remained after
up to the expulsion of Jews from Vienna by the emperor Leopold I. in 1670. Benjamin Leb (Wolf) Fischhof, probably the youngest of the brothers, was also expelled at the same time, and became rabbi in Nikolsburg. After the expulsion Auerbach became rabbi at Rausnitz, Moravia, and in 1673 of Krotoschin, where
his brother's death in 1666,
the
for sixteen years and until his death he occupied the double position of rabbi and parnass of the district of Posen. In Krotoschin he established a yeshibah,
which soon became known throughout Poland, and to which he devoted much of his time and energy (Eliakim ben Meir, "Responsa," § 61). His son Moses was parnas of the district of Posen, one of the leaders of the Synod of Great Poland, and president of the Assembly of Kobylin in 1733. The following pedigree exhibits the relationship of branch of the Auerbach famity
this
Judah Loeb Rofe, Rabbi of Cracow Daughter m. Meshullam Solomon Auerbach
Judah Loeb Cohen m. Lissa
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I
Daughter m. Menahem Mendel Hayyim, Dayyan at Vienna (d. 1606) Saul ben
Benjamin Leb (Wolf)
Ezekiel
tbe seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. He was chief of the court of j ustice at Cracow ("bet din"), but on account of the persecutions of the Jews in Poland he was forced to leave his native
country (1714), settling later at Frankfort-on-theMain, where he married the daughter of the rabbi, Joseph Samuel. He is the author of " Halakah Berurah " (The Clear Law), a commentary on the Shulhan 'Aruk, Orah Hayyim (Wilmersdorf, 1717). This work contains, mainly, solutions of questions on which the Aharonim had widely divergent opinions. Bibliography: Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. Nos.
6750,
7196;
Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebrcva, iii. 184,% Azulai, Shern haOedolim, s.v. Pinhas Auerbach, Gesc/i, der Israelitischen Gemevmlc Halherstadt, p. 53.
L.
A. R.
G.
AUERBACH, SAMUEL
DAVID
B. A cabalistic commentator on the Bible flourished in the seventeenth century. His father, David, died as a martyr during the persecution of the Jews'in Poland, and he himself narrowly escaped a similar fate, first at Lublin, Oct. 16, 1655, and then Auerbach was the author of at Reisen, near Lissa. a work entitled " Hesed Shemo El " (Mercy, Its Name Is God, the letters of "Shemo El" corresponding with those of "Samuel," the author's name). This work, published at Amsterdam in 1699, contains Midrashic and cabalistic explanations of Genesis, of no value whatever. However, of considerable value
TEBELE
an eye-witness, are the numerous scattered references to the persecution of the Jews of Poland during the years 1648 and 1655. to the historian, as records of
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Miriam m. Moses Isaac ha- Levi,
Daughter m. Moses
rabbi of Zlotow
Bibliography
Menahem Mendel,
Gurland, Le-Korot ha-Gezerot, v. 75 SteinZunz, Literaturgesch. 439.
schneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2409
rabbi of Krotoschin (1732)
L. G.
K.
Auerbach was the author of " 'Ateret Zekenim " (The Crown of Old Men compare Prov. xvii. 6), a commentary on Orah Hayyim, a division of the Shulhan 'Aruk, printed at Dyhernfurth, 1720, and repubHe also left in lished in most editions of that work.
AUERBACH, SIMEON.
See
Auerbach
manuscript 'Akeret ha-Bayit " (The Barren One of the House; compare Ps. cxiii. 9), a commentary on another division of the Shulhan 'Aruk; namely, Hoshen Mishpat. Bibliography: Kaufmann, Die Letzte Vertreibung der Juden "
H. N. Dembitzer, et seq., Vienna, 1889 I. Eisenstadt-S. Wiener, Kelilat Yofi, passim, Cracow, 1888 Da'at Kedoshim, passim, St. Petersburg, 1897-98.
an* Wien, pp. 172
H. R.
g.
AUERBACH, MESHULLAM SOLOMON. See Auekbach, Family.
Menahem Mendel, and Auerbach
AUERBACH, PEREZ
HUM
B.
MENAHEM
NA-
Polish Talmudist flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of the work, " Peer Halakah " (Ornament of the Halakah), Zolkiev, 1738, which contains novelise to the Talmud, to the commentaries on the Talmud, and
Yad ha-Hazakah. The section in the treatise Pesahim (14a, 21a), known as the " section to
Maimonides'
of R. Hanina, the chief priest," ticularly exhaustive manner.
is
treated in a par-
p.
455; Zedner,
BEN
SIMON
Bibliography: Benjacob, Ozar ha-Sefarim, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 64.
L. G.
d.
AUERBACH, PHINEAS
WOLF
Rabbi and Talmudist II.— 20
lived at the end of
Family.
AUERBACH, SIMON (ZE'EB) WOLF B. DAVID TEBELE Talmudist and rabbi of sev:
communities; born at Posen about 1550; His father was either died Nov. 12, 1631, at Prague. rabbi or, at least, an eminent Talmudic authority in Posen and his father-in-law was Solomon b. Jehiel Luria, whom he succeeded, after the latter's death, Before this, in the rabbinate of Lublin (1578-84). however, he had officiated as rabbi of the communiAt Lublin he ties of Turbin and Lubomil, Poland. had a bitter quarrel with the celebrated Talmudist The of that town, Mei'r b. Gedaliah (Maharam). latter apparently had at this time no official appointment at Lublin, but was the leader of one of the eral large
largest yeshibot; and by virtue of his great Talmudic authority, he had it in his power to make it very unpleasant for the rabbi of his community. Although the two men had been friends before
Auerbach entered upon
his office
Ram, Responsum No. turbed when Auerbach,
27),
(compare MaHa-
was discommunity,
this relation
as rabbi of the
In addition became the superior of MaHaRam. there was an ancient feud between Luria and Maharam's father, which passed over to their sons. Auerbach left Lublin, in order to accept the rabbinate of Przemysl, retiring after a few years to Posen, as he had private means. In 1621 he was
appointed chief rabbi of his native place. Auerbach's great reputation is evident from the
