Aryeh Judah Leib ben Samuel Zevi Hirsch (; –1714) was a
Polish–Lithuanian rabbi.
Biography
Leib was born about 1630, likely in the
Polish
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city of
Pinczow. He was on his father's side the grandson of
Joel Sirkes
Joel ben Samuel Sirkis (Hebrew: רבי יואל בן שמואל סירקיש; born 1561 - March 14, 1640) also known as the Bach (an abbreviation of his magnum opus BAyit CHadash), was a prominent Ashkenazi posek and halakhist, who lived in Centr ...
, and stepson of
David ben Samuel ha-Levi, of whom he was also the pupil.
He also studied under
Joshua Höschel, author of ''Maginne Shelomoh'', and under
Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller
Rabbi Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller (c. 157919 August 1654), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the ''Tosefet Yom-Tov'' (1614–1617). Heller was one of the majo ...
.
He was rabbi successively of
Swirz,
Galicia (before 1663),
Kamorna,
Stobnitz,
Zamosc (1679–1689),
Tiktin,
Cracow, and finally
Brest-Litovsk
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(1701–1714). He was considered by his contemporaries so great a Talmudic authority that in 1669 he was sent with his stepbrother Isaiah ha-Levi to
Constantinople
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to investigate the claims of
Shabbethai Zevi. His responsa were published later, under the title ''Sha'agat Aryeh'' (Neuwied, 1736), by his grandson , who added some of his own under the title ''Kol Shaḥal''. Other responsa of Löb's are to be found in the ''Shevut Ya'akov'' edited by his grandson, and in ''Teshuvot Geonim Batra'e'', published first in Turkey by the author of ''Ma'ane Elihu'', and afterward in Prague (1816).
Selected publications
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References
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1630 births
1714 deaths
17th-century Polish–Lithuanian rabbis
People from Pińczów County
Rabbis from Brest, Belarus