Rasha Mirla Szapiro

This was written by Isaac Shapiro about his family. My father JACOB JOSEPH SHAPIRO was the son of the gaon BORUCH SHAPIRO, otherwise known as BOCHIE SHAPIRO, the Czisover rabbi and of RASHI MIREL, his wife, who was the daughter of rabbi MARDECAI HALEVY, district Rabbi at Tiktin, became rabbi at the age of 18; his brother ZEBI DAVID ISAAC HALEVY was rabbi at Krakow; both were sons of the great gaon and Hased ISAAC HALEVY of Lwow, who became rabbi in Chelm, and later at Krakow; he was the son of MORDECAI HALEVY (Rabbi) at Lwow, whose father was the great and holy gaon JEHOSHUA HALEVY called “Reitzes” who was a brother to the holy gaon CHAIM REITZES, Rabbi of Lwow, both of whom were martyred in 5488 (1727); they were the sons of the great gaon and Rabbi ISAAC HALEVY and grandsons of the aforementioned ISAAC HALEVY, who was the son-inlaw of the great gaon ARIE LEIB, Rabbi in Gluga and Amsterdam, who was the son of Rabbi SAUL, Rabbi at Brisk, later at Krakow; his father Rabbi HESHIL was Rabbi of Krakow; he was the son of the great, JACOB LUBLINER; his father HESHIL was the son of the gaon JACOB LUBLINER; His father HESHIL was the son of the gaon EPHRAIM NAPTHALI HERSH WEIL of Ladimir; He was the son of JONAH WEIL RABBI of Bamberg, Switzerland, and of Bavaria; his father was RABBI MEIR WEIL, CHIEF Rabbi of Ulma; he was the son of the gaon Rabbi JACOB WEIL, chief Rabbi of Nirenberg, who was a direct descendant of MEIER BEN BARUCH of Rothenburg.

The above SAUL OF BRISK was the son-in-law of ARIE LIEB, who was known as Rabbi “Lieb the Tall,” Chief Rabbi of Krakow, who was the son of the gaon and miracle man LECHARIAH MENDIL; he was the son of BENJAMIN BENISH, Rabbi of Posen, who was the son-in-law of MOSES ISSERLES, whose father was CHAIM, Rabbi of Friedburg, whose brother was M. ‘H. ‘R.! “L”. of Prague; he was the son of the gaon and hasid ANPHTALI HERSCH, who was the son of the great gaon, hasid and lecturer ISAAC of Lwow.

ARIE LEIB of Gluga, mentioned above, had two sons’ 1. SAUL, who was chief Rabbi at Amsterdam, Holland; 2. ZEBI HIRSCH, Rabbi in Berlin; he had the following sons-in-law; 1. ISAAC HALEVY of Lwow and Krakow (mentioned above), and 2. was Rabbi SAUL, Rabbi of the Hague, Holland; 3. the great gaon AARON JOSHUA, Rabbi in Rawitzk and Konigsberg.

ZEBI HIRSCH, of Berlin, mentioned above, had three sons: 1. SAUL, rabbi in Frankfort-on-the-Main; 2. SOLOMON, rabbi in London; 3. DAVID TOBIAS ASHUR, who lived in POLAND, Whose shoulders escaped the Weight of the Rabbinate.

ARIE LEIB of Gluga, mentioned above, was the son-in-law of the great gaon and the famous Rabbi ZEBI HIRSCH ASHKENAZI, who was a famous Rabbi known throughout the world by the name of “HAKAM ZEBI,” whose father was JACOB VILNA, who was Rabbi in the Old Auben, and whose father was BENJAMIN ZEEV “Z” “K.”

JACOB VILNA, mentioned above was the son-in-law of the gaon EPHRAIM HAKOHEN, whose father-in-law ELIAH, a grandson of the gaon and Kaballist, who was known as BAAL SHEM of Chelm or Kelem.

HAKAM ZEBI, mentioned above, was the son-in-law of the great rabbi MESHULEM ZALMAN NEWMARK “MIRELS, “D. 1706, Rabbi of Hamburg, who was the son of JACOB NEWMARK “MIRELS,” a son of NAPHTALI HERSCH, who was Rabbi at Fulda, a grandson of “M. H. R. M.” Padua. HAKAM ZEBI had five sons: 1. Rabbi JACOB EMDIN; 2. Rabbi MESEULEM ZALMAN, chief Rabbi at Ostrobe; 3. NATHAN ASHKENAZI, who was chief Rabbi at Broady, (Brod); 4. DAVID, Rabbi at Lutsk; 5. ISSAC ASHKENAZI of Lwow.

JACOB EMDEN (Emdin), mentioned above, was the father of 1. MESHALEM ZALMAN, Rabbi in London; 2. MEIER ASHKENZAI (16th Century), Rabbi at Constantin , and the father-in-law of the famous gaon, HAIM KATZ RAPPOPORT, Rabbi at Austrasia.

NATHAN ASHKENAZI, mentioned above, was the father of the following gaonim; 1. EPHRAIM ASHKENAZI; 2. JACOB MOSES, the father of JACOB, who was Rabbi in Lissa and Styria.

HESHIL, mention above, was the son-in-law of JEHUDAH WAHL, a grandson of “M. H. R. M.” of Padua.

Rabbi LEIB THE TALL, mentioned above was the father of ZECHARIAH MENDEL, 18TH Century, rabbi at Belz, and son-in-law of the gaon and shining light EPHRAIM FISHEL, Rabbi of Lwow and the District, who was a descendant of WISHEL, the son-in-law of “H. M.R. L.,” whose lineage is traced back to RASHI, who descended (10 generations) from JOHANAN HA-SAND-HILLEL HASOKON (Hillel the Elder) one of the Tanaim of the Talmud, whose lineage is traced back to King David.

ARIE LEIB of Gluga, mentioned above, was the grandson of Saul Wahl, King of Poland, who was the son of “M. H. R. M.” of Padua.

Not sure about this either.. http://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/id_47602/info/back_1:1/__Szpiro.html cemetery Warszawa (Okopowa) sector 39 row 14 number 24 sex F surname Szpiro first name hebrew name Rasha Mirel fathers name Tzvi husbands name Baruch maiden name date of birth (m/d/y) (m/d/r) date of death (m/d/y) (m/d/r) 1/1/1884 additional info ze Szczuczyna http://szukajwarchiwach.pl/72/200/0/-/18/skan/full/tPIQ8OrBMMpmZdSM...

Found this.. but it is questionable. http://szukajwarchiwach.pl/.../full/tPIQ8OrBMMpmZdSMbfao7g

1. 131 Warsaw, Dec 22 1883 / Jan 3 1884 Moszek Bukszpan (Moses Boxwood, 29 yo) and Moszek Gierman (Moses Herman, 42 yo), both residents of Warsaw, stated that 2 days ago in Warsaw Rasza Mirel Szapiro (Rachel Miriam Shapiro) died, an 80 yo widowed daughter of Benisz (Yiddish Baruch) and Sura (Sara) spouses Zyller (a lot of possible alternative notations), both deceased, she left seven sons THE SEVEN SONS could be right.. but Baruch and Sura? don't make sense.