Talk:Yisrael Salanter
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[edit] Jewish Encyclopedia article
- Here I am pasting the text of the article on R' Yisroel Salanter from the PD 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. - CrazyRussian talk/email 12:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Russian rabbi; born at Zhagory at the beginning of the nineteenth century; died at Königsberg, Prussia, Feb. 2, 1883. He received his first training from his father, Zeeb Wolf, who was rabbi at Zhagory. After his marriage Lipkin settled at Salaty, where he continued his studies under Rabbi Hirsch Broda and Rabbi Joseph Zundel (died in Jerusalem 1866). Zundel exerted a deep influence on the development of Lipkin's character; and the latter showed his appreciationof his teacher by referring to him in the preface to his periodical "Tebunah" as the light which he followed all his days.
In 1842 Lipkin was called to Wilna as head of the yeshibah Tomeke Torah. During his incumbency he established a new yeshibah at Zarechye, a suburb of Wilna, where he lectured for about three years.
Lipkin's great service lay in his insistence on the practical application of the moral teachings of Judaism and in his emphasis of the necessity of manual labor on the part of the Jews. He established societies for the study of religious ethics, with but little regard for worldly affairs; and at his suggestion the works on religious ethics of Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto, Mendel Lefin, and Solomon ibn Gabirol were reprinted at Wilna.
When, in 1848, the Russian government established the rabbinical school at Wilna, Lipkin declined an invitation to become instructor in Talmud and rabbinical law. He settled in Kovno and established a yeshibah, connected with the bet ha-midrash of Hirsch Naviazsky, of which he retained charge until 1857, when failing health compelled him to remove to Germany for medical treatment. He remained in the house of the philanthropists, the Hirsch brothers of Halberstadt, until his health improved, and then (in 1861) began the publication of the Hebrew monthly "Tebunah," devoted to rabbinical law and religious ethics. On account of his failing health this periodical was discontinued at the end of a year, and Lipkin again lived for a time the life of a wanderer, visiting yeshibot and offering advice to teachers and students wherever his assistance was sought. Toward the end of his life Lipkin was called to Paris to organize a community among the Russian immigrants, and he remained there for two years.
Lipkin was a singular combination of the ultra-Orthodox Jew and the man of the world, particularly in regard to the duties of citizenship. He preached love for the fatherland and respect for the laws of the country. When the ukase making military service universally obligatory appeared, Lipkin wrote an appeal to the rabbis and community leaders urging them to keep lists of recruits so as to leave no pretext for the contention that the Jews shirked such service. He was considered one of the most eminent Orthodox rabbis of the nineteenth century because of his broad Talmudic scholarship, his deep piety, and his personal influence for good; and he was probably the only rabbi of his time that exerted a wide influence on his fellow rabbis and on the Jewish communities of Russia. His disciples collected and published some of his sayings, commentaries, and sermons in "Eben Yisrael" (Warsaw, 1853) and in "'Eẓ Peri" (Wilna, 1880).
Bibliography: Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 697, Warsaw, 1886; H. M. Steinschneider, 'Ir Wilna, p. 128; Feldberg, in Ḳedosh Yisrael, Wilna, 1884.
[edit] Name change
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He was Yisroel Salanter, not Yisrael. Gut Voch --Shaul avrom 00:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Gut Voch. I don't think we can be too picky about the names. There is a tremendous variety of spellings in Wikipedia Jewish biographies. For example, all of the biographical selections imported from the Jewish Encyclopedia use Anglicized names (i.e., Jacob, Ezekiel, etc., which has good points and bad points). The best we can do, I think, is just to add enough Redirects so that people can find the right page when they search under the spelling that they expect. We can then add important variant spellings in the intro, like many articles already have. My $0.02.
Dfass 04:28, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
See input by CRZ and myself on Wikipedia Talk: Hebrew.
--Shaul avrom 13:23, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
