R' Shimon Sidon

Rabbi Shimon Sidon was a Hungarian rabbi; born at Nadash on January 24, 1815 (13 Shevat 5575 on the Hebrew calendar) to Yehuda Sidon from Kunitz and Eidel. He died at Trnava on December 20, 1891 (19 Kislev 5652 on the Hebrew calendar).

At age thirteen in 1829 he entered the Yeshiva of the Chassam Sofer and studied there for nine years until 1838. He became close to his teacher who he writes was like a father to him, he served him and ate at his table (something very few students of the Chasam Sofer merited).

In that year in 1838 he returned home and married his wife Rachel who was also from his hometown Nadash. There in Nadash he taught young students for seven years until he was appointed rabbi of Cifer in 1845. He was rabbi of Cifer for ten years where he taught bright students until in 1856 he was appointed as rabbi of the newly founded Jewish community of Trnava which had been closed to Jews since they were expelled from it in c. 1555.

He died in Trnava in 1891 leaving his wife and three sons;

1. Asher who was at that time rabbi of Vershetz,
2. Shmuel, and
3. Itzik. Two of his children died young; his eldest son Dovid at age 24, and daughter Sarel at age 27.

Works by Sidon

1. • Ois Bris, 1850
2. • Beis Menucha, Pressburg 1869
3. • Shevet Shimon, Pressburg 1884, Vienna 1888, Pressburg 1891
4. References[edit]
5. • Beis Menucha Pressburg 1869, Shevet Shimon Vienna 1888; short biographies there.

Rabbi Simon Sidon (1815-1891). His father's name was Kanitz, after the town in Moravia. Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy  By Dan Rottenber P.342

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One of his halachic books - Bejt Menuchah with some autobiography in hebrew http://www.hebrewbooks.org/6630

He wrote:

Shevet Shimon (Commentary of the tora),

Ot Berit (Halacha of Berit mila and Conversion)

Bejt Menucha (Halacha about Chametz and Maza, Shofar, Suka)

• Residence: Bratislava Slovakia - 1848
• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via father Juda Jacob Sidon by SmartCopy: Nov 13 2014, 18:49:21 UTC