Maor VaShemeshמאור ושמש
Krakow (Cracow) · 1817
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Maor VaShemesh
Maor VaShemesh
1751 CE–1823 CE · Acharonim · Nowy Korczyn (Neustadt)
Kalonymus Kalman Epstein (c. 1751–1823) was a prominent Hasidic master and kabbalist who lived and taught in Kraków. A disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk (whose attendant he was) and of Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov, he became known for his profound mystical interpretations of Torah and Hasidic thought. He authored the Maor VaShemesh ('Light and Sun'), a collection of homilies on the Torah that blends Hasidic devotion with kabbalistic insight. Epstein was revered as a teacher of spiritual depth and served as a bridge between the early Hasidic movement and the more intellectually rigorous study of its teachings. His work became influential in Hasidic circles and remains studied to this day.
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Nowy Korczyn (Neustadt)Poland
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Born in Nowy Korczyn (Neustadt) in Poland.
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Nowy Korczyn (Yiddish Naysthot / Neustadt), a town in southern Poland (Świętokrzyskie region), had a long-established Jewish community. It was the birthplace, in 1753, of the chasidic master Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Epstein, a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk and author of the foundational chasidic work Maor VaShemesh, who later led the chasidim of Kraków.
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