Be’er Esek [“Well of Strife”]

LIDA, DAVID BEN ARYEH LEIB

n.p.

(Lublin)

1684

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, Lublin 247

In 1680 David Lida was apointed rabbi of the Aschkenazic community of Amsterdam. Various aspersions were cast upon his character (including suspicion of Sabbatianism), until finally Lida was ousted from his post. He subsequently appealed to the synod of Polish and Lithuanian rabbis, the Va’ad Arba Aratzoth