Rabbi Mechel Scheuer was a German Orthodox rabbi, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1739 to his father Rabbi

David Tebele Scheuer Jacob Moses David Tebele Scheuer (1712–1782) was a German rabbi. Biography Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1712, he was one of the outstanding students of Rabbi , author of ''Shav Ya'akov'', in Frankfurt. He served as '' Dayan'' of Frankfurt during ...

. He led his father's Yeshiva in Mainz as its

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during the years 1776 and 1777. In 1778 he became rabbi of Worms and in 1782 was appointed rabbi of Mannheim; then as rabbi of

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where he died in 1810 (27 Shevat 5570 on the Hebrew calendar.)

Pupils

Among his pupils in (1776 - 1777) was the future famed '' Chasam Sofer'' who eulogized him as "the teacher of my youth ... who was renowned with his sharpness; was able to "overturn mountains and grind them"; he was an elder and extremely wise ... in the years 5536 (1776) and 5537 (1777) I stood before him while he was

in the holy community of Mainz".

References

1739 births 1810 deaths 18th-century German rabbis 19th-century German rabbis German Orthodox rabbis Rabbis from Frankfurt {{Germany-rabbi-stub