Mishnath Rabbi Eliezer (Sermons on the Pentateuch)

Trillinger, Eliezer.

Michael Gottschalk

Frankfort-on-Oder

1707

On title, elaborate frontispiece. Owner's signature: “Aberle ben Elkanah Segal.” Floral device for divisions between five books of Moses.

Vinograd, Franfort on the Oder 180

Rabbi Eliezer Trillinger was a native of Nicholsburg. His son Joseph writes that his father was passing through the city of Vilna on his way to Eretz Israel when he took ill and died. The book bears the haskamah (encomium) of Rabbi David Oppenheim of Prague, among many others. Mishnath Rabbi Eliezer is a major source for the interpretations of the legendary Abraham Joshua Heschel (Rebbe Heschel) of Cracow (d. 1664), whose disciples became the luminaries of the following generation: Shabbetai b. Meir Hakohen, Aaaron Samuel Koidanover, et al. Eventually, these brilliant interpretations were gathered in E.J. Ersohn, Hanukath ha-Torah (1900). COPY OF RABBI ABERLE SEGAL. R. Abraham or Aberle, a native of Hamburg, was the first Parnas of the Great Synagogue, London. C. Duschinsky, The Rabbinate of the Great Synagogue, London (London, 1921), p. 2. He became embroiled in controversy with Chief Rabbi Aaron Hart over a get, or bill of divorce granted to one Ansel Katz of London prior to his sailing for the Caribbean. This decision was publicly criticized by Mordecai Hamburger who was promptly placed under the communal ban of “herem.” Additionally, Hart set out the matter in the pamphlet “Urim Ve-Tumim” (London, 1707). To defend his position, Hamburger (wealthy son-in-law of the diarist Glückel of Hameln) had R. Johanan b. Isaac of Holleschau prepare his defense in a book “Ma'aseh Rav” (London, 1707).The historical background to the affair is presented by David Kaufmann in JHSET, Vol. III, pp.102-125.