Aaron ben Samuel

Aaron ben Samuel of Frankfurt (Oder) (Hebrew: רבי אהרון בן שמואל; c. 1620 – 1701) was a 17th-century Jewish-German rabbi and Hebrew author. [1]

Aaron ben Samuel
Front page of Bet Aharon
Personal
Born
Aaron ben Samuel

1620
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Died1701
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
ReligionJudaism
NationalityGerman
ChildrenRabbi Abraham ben Aaron and Rabbi Eliezer ben Aaron
Parents
  • Rabbi Samuel of Leipzig (father)

Biography

Aaron ben Samuel was possibly born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany in about 1620. Not much is known about Aaron's personal life. His father Samuel was a minor rabbi in Leipzig. Aaron published Bet Aharon (lit. Aaron's House) at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1690, being at that time of advanced age. In the introduction he states that he spent ten long years writing the work, with the help of several other scholars who lived with him for this purpose. In this introduction Aaron additionally mentions three of his other works, which, however, seem to have been lost: (1) Sissera Torah – a midrashic commentary on Judges. (2) Ḥibbur Masora – a midrashic commentary on the Masora, of which he gives several specimens. (3) Shaloaḥ Manot – a short commentary on the treatise Megillah. His work, Bet Aharon, was received with the approval of the greatest rabbinic authorities of the time. The work assembles all biblical passages cited or explained in the Talmud, the midrashim, and the many religious-philosophical, homiletic, and kabbalistic writings, with exact references for each quotation. The work was published again in the 1780 Vilna and Grodno edition of the Nevi'im and Ketuvim. An enlarged edition by Abraham David Lavat appeared under the title Beit Aharon ve-Hosafot in 1880. At the request of his wife, Aaron translated into Yiddish the Midrash Petirat Moshe, published in 1693 in Frankfurt on the Oder. This work seemed to be popular among women in Poland and Russia. Aaron also wrote a commentary on Perek Shirah which appeared as an appendix to the 1701 Berlin prayer book. Aaron died in 1701 in Frankfurt an der Oder. His eldest son Abraham ben Aaron (1640–1712) served as the Av Bet Din of Frankfurt an der Oder and his second son Eliezer ben Aaron (1645–1716), was the rosh yeshivah of the Frankfurt an der Oder yeshivah as well as a minor Halakic commentator.[2][3][4][5]

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References
  1. Zedner, Joseph (1867). Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum. p. 5.
  2. "Aaron ben Samuel | Encyclopedia.com". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  3.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Aaron ben Samuel". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  4. "Rabbi Eliezer ben Aaron of Frankfurt (Oder)". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  5. Heller, Marvin J. (2010-12-07). The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 vols): An Abridged Thesaurus. BRILL. p. 1157. ISBN 978-90-04-18956-0.
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