Ahron Beer, haLevi

AMST Ros 562
https://www.nli.org.il/he/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH000171938/NLI?volume...

Mos RSL 545
https://www.nli.org.il/he/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH000053686/NLI#$FL123...

Burial record:- http://gis.trebic.cz/mapa/zidovsky-hrbitov/?c=-650499.8%3A-1152071.... http://gis.trebic.cz/mapa/assets/local/pomniky/2011/2263/1945%20(A2...

Grave inscription:
נונ יום ה' טז אלול תקעח ל' וימת

אהרן בנשיקה בקדושה וטהרה

בכבוד גדול ובבכיה בא לקבורה

עסקין במצות ונתיבותיו ישרה

רוממות אל בגרונו בתדירה
סמך וסעד לאורחי ובעלי תורה
גמילות חסדים עשה כשורה
למרום עלה ברוח ונפש יקרה
הה התו' כה אהרן בער בהג סגל זל
תנצבה

Translation:

Died and was buried Thursday, the 16th of Elul, 5578

and Aaron died with a kiss in holiness and purity

With great respect and weeping he was brought to burial

He dealt with mizvot and his paths were straight

The exaltation of God was in his mouth constantly

He supported and fed guests and Torah scholars

He performed acts of kindness correctly

To heaven he ascended with a dear spirit and soul

The Torah personality Aaron Beer son of G. (Gabriel) Segal of blessed memory

MHDSRIP

Kapey Aharon [The Palms of Aharon’s Hands]
Author: Aaron ben Gabriel Halevi from Trebitsch; [Amsterdam, ca. 1750-1769];
Manuscript, 86 pages; Amsterdam: Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Hs. Ros 562
Pereq Shira is here part of an ethical work called Kapey Aharon written by
Aaron ben Gabriel Halevi from Trebitsch (West-Moravia). This oeuvre is
considered part of the Mussar literature corpus and includes the well-known
Chovot HaLevavot32 as well. In his introduction, Halevi shares important
stages of his life with his readers, in order to be able to link them to religious
observations.33 After participating in a war in his home country – most
probably the First Silesian War (1740-1742) – he fled to Danzig. There, he was
seized by Prussian troops and imprisoned in a cell where he was chained
for two years in complete darkness. After a court order was issued, Halevi
– now in his forties – was released and left for Amsterdam. Halevi thanks
the Ashkenazi community of Amsterdam for helping him out, mentioning
among others Rabbi Aryeh Leib Löwenstamm, R. Moshe Frankfurter, and
the printer Naftali Hirz Levi.34

29 Abramowitsch, [Mendele Moykher Seforim], Sefer Toledot Ha’teva (Hebrew), 3 vols.
30 Ibid, 114 (note 7).
31 Luria, Mendele Mokher Sefarim’s Perek Shira, 18-20.
32 Chovot HaLevavot (Duties of the Hearts), is the primary work of the Jewish rabbi and philosopher, Bahya ibn Paquda, full name Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda. Ibn Paquda is believed to
have lived in Zaragoza, Spain, in the eleventh century.
33 Schrijver, “An Inventory of undescribed Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana,” 169; Michels, “Aaron ben Gabriel Halevis zweisprachiges ethisches Werk Kapej Aharon.”
1-11; Idem., “Jiddische Handschriften der Niederlande,“ 123-129.

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