R' Aryey Lieb Auerbach, A.B.D. Stanislaw

Gaon Rabbi Arye Leib Auerbach. Born about the year 5470 [1710], to his father Rabbi Mordekhai Mardush from Kremnitz,

1. Source; Book Review: Meorei Galicia (Encyclopedia of Galician Sages) Jerusalem, Israel, 1978-1997. Author: Rabbi Meir Wunder. Reviewed by Chaim Freedman http://www.jewishgen.org/rabbinic/journal/mgalicia.htm#F2

"The glory of the family was the Gaon Rabbi Arye Leib Auerbach. Born about the year 5470 [1710], to his father Rabbi Mordekhai Mardush from Kremnitz, ABD Yazlowitz and Bamberg, son of Reb David ABD Rawa whose sister was the mother of Rabbi David Oppenheim, son of Reb Avigdor, husband of the sister of the Ta”z, daughter of Reb Shmuel of Ludmir, son-in-law of Reb Yitskhak son of Reb Betzalel ABD Ludmir. The wife of Reb A.L. was Leah Dreizel, daughter of Nekhameh-Neitshe who was the daughter of Rabbi Arye Leib from Amsterdam, son-in-law of the Khakham Tsvi, and wife of Reb Moshe of Zolkiew Pu”m Lwow, father of Reb Mordekhai Zev father of Rabbi Yaakov Ornstein. Sheintsi the sister of Reb A.L. was the mother of Rabbi Meir Margolis, who was a student of his uncle and afterwards also his son-in-law.

Close to the year 5500 [1740] he was accepted as rabbi of Buczacz, but he was aggravated by men of no values and did not remain there. Until the Holocaust in that city they used to point out the chain of disabilities which struck those families who conspired against him, until eventually no remnant of them survived. Ten years he presided as rabbi of Stanislaw, and was called by its name. Died 10th (and some say 6th) Kheshvan 5510 [1750]. Despite his young age he was considered as one of the Geonim of his generation, and the Nodah Biyehudah refused to release a deserted wife if he did not participate with him (141, Even Haezer, 29). The Besht used to always stay with him, and said that he had the soul of Abaye. He left a manuscript of a book Beit Tzadikim on the Shas. Some of his innovations were printed by his relatives in the book Meir Netivim, item 5, and in the book Zikaron Yehudah by his grandson Reb Yehudah Broda, His student the author of Meshiv Kehalakhah refers to him as: “my uncle and teacher” in item 5, 192, and the answer of Reb A.L. to him is there, item 6.

He had a son Rabbi David Tsvi and daughters: Reizel the wife of Rabbi Meshullam Zalmen Ashkenazy ABD Pomeran, and when he died at the age of 25 she married Rabbi Tsvi Hersh Margolis ABD Lublin (and some say Rabbi Betzalel Margolis ABD Ostroah, and there is a third opinion); the wife of Rabbi Naftali Herz Broda ABD Mikolinitz; the wife of Rabbi Khaim ABD Slopkowitz son of Reb Uri of Zolkiew; and there are those who say also the wife of Rabbi Nakhman of Horodenka.

Kitvei Hageonim 53, 95; Eshkol, A, 849, 851; Melitsei Esh, B Kheshvan, page 122-123; Sefer Buczacz, 51; Sefer Busk, 83; Sha”y Agnon, Ir Umelo’oh, 304-309."

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"Rabbi [Yechiel Michel] Burstein was born in 1872. On his father's side, he was the grandson of the late righteous Gaon Rabbi Yosef, and on his mother's side, he was the grandson of the late Gaon Leibush from Stanislav, the uncle of Meir Margaliot, who wrote “Meir Netivim”." p376 Yednits Yizkor Book (https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/yedintsy/yed0353.html)