Imrei Noam
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Aharon Chorin
Aharon Chorin
1766 CE–1844 CE · Acharonim · Hranice (Mährisch Weisskirchen)
Rabbi Aharon Chorin (1766–1844) was a communal rabbi in the Kingdom of Hungary whose halachic writings helped open the way toward religious reform among Central European Jewry. Born in Hranice (Mährisch Weisskirchen) in Moravia, he studied as a youth at Mattersdorf and afterward in Prague under Ezekiel Landau. In 1789 he became rabbi of Arad, a post he held for the rest of his life. His early pamphlets Imrei Noam (1798) and Shiryon Kaskasim (Prague, 1799) argued, on kashrut grounds, that the sturgeon was permitted, drawing sharp rabbinic rebuttals. Later works — among them Emek HaShaveh (Prague, 1803), Avak Sofer, and Yeled Zekunim (Vienna, 1839) — questioned customs he judged to lack talmudic footing and defended changes to synagogue practice, including prayer in the vernacular. He also advocated secular schooling and a modern rabbinical seminary.
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