Seligman Baer Bamberger
Seligmann Baer Bamberger - the " Würzburg Rav " ( born November 6, 1807 in Wiesenbronn, † October 13, 1878 in Würzburg) was an important representative of Orthodox Judaism.
Life
He was born on November 6, 1807, the son of Simon ( Sim'ha ) Bamberger, a small trader and a rabbi in Wiesenbronn in Kitzingen. He grew up in the traditions of the Frankish Orthodox Judaism country and attended a Yeshiva in Fürth.
After five years of successful study Bamberger went at the age of 20 years as a trained rabbi back to his home village. There he earned his livelihood with a small general store. At 22 he married the daughter of the rabbi of Fulda. His wife managed the business and henceforth he devoted himself to the study.
His reputation as a scholar came from his home village to the outside, and it made the pilgrimage from all over Germany pupils to him. For the lessons he took no money.
The first time joined Rabbi Seligmann Baer Bamberger 1836 in the public. The Bavarian government was seeking clarity in the dispute between the orthodox and the increasingly strong liberal branch of Judaism. In each county government, as well as in Würzburg, a gathering of rabbis, teachers and community members was convened to discuss specific, predetermined questions. Bamberger was sent to his community as a representative of orthodoxy. At this meeting Seligmann Baer Bamberger fell on the already 80 -year-old reigning Würzburg Rabbi Abraham Bing. This wished the young man as his successor in the rabbi.
Bamberger then signed up for the election of the district rabbi in 1840. He was elected with 310 of 500 votes. His district covered not only the city of Würzburg still 29 under Frankish villages.
The education of youth in the Jewish faith was Rabbi Bamberger particularly at heart. He feared that the few religious classes that he taught per week is insufficient, the danger of assimilation of Jews in Würzburg was too big. He thus belonged to the circle of rabbis who, at the Jewish law held despite the Jews Edict of 1813. First, he opened a yeshiva. In 1856 he founded the private " Israelite School and Educational Institution ." It was this is a sechsklassige elementary school for boys and girls. There followed in 1864 the first teacher training college, the " Israelite teacher training institute in Würzburg " ILBA short.
. Rabbi Bamberger held every Sabbath lectures to realize in everyday life of every Jew to see the religion. He regularly sent money to the Holy Land and encouraged the construction of the first Jewish hospital in Palestine. Seligmann Baer Bamberger has written three books in which he explained the Jewish laws and regulations in simple language.
Rabbi Seligmann Baer Bamberger died on the second day of the Feast of Tabernacles in 1878 during the service, and was buried in Hochberg on the local Jewish cemetery ( Hochberg ).
He was married to Kela Wormser (1804-1881), the daughter of Seckel Wormser, a rabbi in Fulda.