Hirschel Levin
Hirschel Ben Aryeh Leib Levin (also known as Zvi Hirschel Levin, Hart Lyon and Hirshel Lobel; * 1721 in Rzeszow, Poland - Lithuania; † August 26, 1800 in Berlin) was Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Chief Rabbi of Berlin and Rabbi of Halberstadt and Mannheim.
He was born the son of Aryeh Leib Lowenstam and Miriam in Rzeszow. His father was a rabbi in Amsterdam, his mother was the daughter of Zvi Hirsch Ashkenazi; he was also a descendant of Polish rabbi Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm.
Levin was a renowned Talmudist and fell in 1751 in the conflict between Jacob Emden ( the uncle was ) and Jonathan Eybeschuetz, where he took understandably for his uncle party. His epistles against Eibschütz made a great impression, so that he was in 1756 elected as Chief Rabbi of the Great Synagogue in London. In 1763 (or 1764) he resigned from this position to accept the rabbinate of Halberstadt; there he also launched a Talmudic school. His successors in London were Meshullam Solomon and Tevele ship, two competing rabbis who were appointed by two differing factions of the Jewish community of London. Levin was then rabbi of Mannheim in 1770, and in 1772 (or 1773), he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Berlin. He was a good friend of Moses Mendelssohn.
Levin began in 1782 in order to pursue the writer Hartwig Wessely because of his book Divrei Shalom we- Emet ( " words of peace and truth ', 1782 ), in which Wessely in relation to the recently published tolerance patent of Joseph II the Jews affected in Austria to calling, the reform to be worthy of consideration by the secular content in education. Levin said the pressure of work and insisted on an expulsion of the author, Berlin. His friend Mendelssohn, however, defended Wessely, of which the friendship of the two suffered greatly.
His commentaries on the Talmud published in Vilnius edition under the name of Rabbi Tsvi Hersh Berlin. His son Solomon Hirschell has also been Chief Rabbi of the German and Polish community of Jews in the United Kingdom. His older son, Saul Berlin, was a notorious forger of the Talmudist and Rosh Besamim.