Sוgnature of the Mekubal Rabbi Elyakim Getschlik Schlesinger. Minchas Shabbos, Krotshin, 1847,First edition.- Meged Mesharim – Commentary on Echad Mi Yode’ah and on Chad Gadya, Hanover, 1851
1. The Ga’on Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kara (1803-1895), Av Beit Din of Włocławek and among elderly rabbis of Prussian-Poland (North-Poland). Known for his books “Kol Omer Kara”, “Minchat Shabbat” and “Tavo’ach Ve’Hachen”, which were printed in many editions.
First edition. Krotshin, 1847.
2. Meged Mesharim – Commentary on Echad Mi Yode’ah and on Chad Gadya – Hanover, 1851
Yaari 1157, Yudlov 950.
The Holy Gaon & Mekubal Rabbi Elyakim Getschlik Schlesinger (1813-1900), known as Reb Getsch of Hamburg, was a close disciple of Rabbi Yaakov Ettlinger, the Aruch LaNer, in the Mannheim yeshiva. When the Aruch LaNer moved to Altona to serve there as rabbi (in 1836), he relocated with his teacher as the first student of the Altona yeshiva.
He served for over fifty years as dayan and teacher in the yeshiva of the Hamburg Kloiz. For a short period, he also served as rabbi of Hamburg. He was renowned as a holy man, who studied Talmud and Halacha ceaselessly, and delved extensively into Kabbalistic works.
He was known as a pious and holy wonder-worker, and more than once, an ill person suddenly recovered following his visit. The epitaph on his tombstone reads: "Our master and teacher, light of Israel, pillar of Torah… the great scholar and Chassid… erudite in all realms of Torah… stood as a mast for his generation… holy and pure from birth… sat in the company of scholars in the study hall of the old and new Kloiz of our community for over 55 years…".
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