Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer () was an important
Hasidic rabbi
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and
kabbalist, and is today remembered for several well known
Hasidic works.
He is also known as "Hayyim of Czernowitz", after his time there.
He was a pupil of
Rabbi Yechiel Michl (the
Maggid of
Zlotshev), as well as of the
Maggid of Mezritch; both in turn direct pupils of the
Baal Shem Tov
Israel ben Eliezer (According to a forged document from the "Kherson Geniza", accepted only by Chabad, he was born in October 1698. Some Hasidic traditions place his birth as early as 1690, while Simon Dubnow and other modern scholars argue f ...
. After he had been rabbi at five different towns, among them
Mogilev
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,
Czernowitz and
Botoșani,
he settled in
Jerusalem
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.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
* Fuenn, ''Keneset Yisrael''
p. 365
* Walden
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, ''Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash'', p. 48. In 1812, he founded the Great Synagogue on Asiiskaya Street on the right bank of the river Byk (no later than 1812, he also founded the first Jewish hospital in the city).
He died in Jerusalem in 1813,
and was buried in a cave in
the Jewish cemetery of Safed.
He was the author of:
* ''Sidduro shel Shabbat'', kabbalistic homilies on
Shabbat
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-related subjects (
Poryck, 1818)
* ''Be'er Mayim Ḥayyim'',