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Bezalel ben Joel Ronsburg (; 1760 – 25 September 1820) was a
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Biography

Ronsburg was the author of ''Horah Gaver'' (Prague, 1802), commentary on the tractate
Horayot Horayot (; "Decisions") is a Masekhet, tractate in Nezikin, Seder Nezikin in the Talmud. In the Mishnah, this is the tenth and last tractate in Nezikin, the ninth tractate in the Babylonian Talmud, and the eighth in the Jerusalem Talmud. It cons ...
, and ''Ma'aseh Rav'' (ib. 1823), marginal notes on the
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, reprinted in the Prague (1830–32) edition of the Talmud and in several later ones. Under the title ''Sedeh Tzofim,'' in the Prague (1839–46) edition of the Talmud, are printed Ronsburg's notes to the ''Halakot'' of
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; the same are reprinted in Romm's Wilna edition. The following works by Ronsburg remain in manuscript (as of 1906): ''Pitche Niddah,'' (later printed by Mossad HaRav Kook) novellæ, and ''Sichat Chullin''. At the official naming of the Jews, Ronsburg (the name is derived from Ronsperg, a city in Bohemia, and is pronounced "ronsh-berg") took the name Daniel Bezaleel Rosenbaum, the initials standing for both surnames; he continued to be known, however, as Ronsburg.


References

Its bibliography: *Kisch, in ''Monatsschrift,'' xlv.220; *Zedner, ''Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus.'' under the erroneous spelling Rendsburg; *Fürst, ''Bibl. Jud.'' iii.129, s.v. Ranschburg. 1760 births 1820 deaths 19th-century Czech rabbis German Orthodox rabbis People from Poběžovice 18th-century rabbis from Bohemia Rabbis from Prague {{Germany-rabbi-stub