Mordechai Benet

1753 CE–1829 CE · Acharonim · Csurgo

Rabbi Mordechai Benet (1753–1829), also recorded as Marcus Benedict, served for roughly four decades as chief rabbi of Moravia. Born in the Hungarian village of Csurgó, he studied at the yeshiva of Fürth under Joseph Steinhardt, author of the responsa Zikhron Yosef, and afterward in Prague. He held rabbinic posts at Lundenburg and Schossberg before his appointment in 1789 to Nikolsburg (Mikulov), where he headed a large yeshiva and served as district rabbi of Moravia. A defender of established observance, he objected to early liturgical reforms and to the replacement of Hebrew with German in worship. His writings, several printed after his death, include the responsa Parashat Mordechai, the Sabbath-law treatise Magen Avot, Biur Mordechai, and Tekhelet Mordechai, together with novellae on the Talmud. He died at Carlsbad, where he had gone for treatment.

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