Drush Ohr HaChaim
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Tiferes Yisrael
Tiferes Yisrael
1782 CE–1860 CE · Acharonim · Dessau
Yisrael Lipschutz (1782-1860), son of Gedaliah, was an Ashkenazi rabbi who led a succession of German communities, among them Dessau and, from 1837 until his death, Danzig (Gdańsk). He is remembered chiefly for the Tiferes Yisrael, a comprehensive commentary on the whole Mishnah issued in parts between 1830 and 1850. Its two layers borrow the names of the pillars that stood at Solomon's Temple: Yachin gives a plain-sense reading of each mishnah, while Boaz collects longer analytical and legal discussion. Included in many standard printings of the Mishnah, it became one of the most widely used companions to that text, alongside the commentary of Obadiah of Bertinoro. Lipschutz also wrote Drush Ohr HaChaim, an essay on the immortality of the soul and the age of the universe.
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DessauדסאוAnhalt (Germany)
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Dessau, a town in Anhalt in eastern Germany, is best known in Jewish history as the birthplace, in 1729, of Moses Mendelssohn, the philosopher and central figure of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah). The mishnaic commentator Rabbi Yisrael Lipschütz (author of the Tiferet Yisrael) also served in the region.
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