Meir Auerbach

Meir Auerbach ( born February 10, 1815 in Kovel, † May 8, 1878 in Jerusalem) was a Jewish scholar of the 19th century, a few years was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and head of the " Rabbi Meir Baal Kupath Haness - Poland Warsaw Kolel ". [ קופת רמבעה"ן כולל פולין ]

At 25, he became rabbi in Kovel. In 1846 he became chairman of the Beth Din in Kolo for nine years and then worked as a rabbi and as a businessman in Kalisz.

In his sermons, he encouraged the people to emigrate to Palestine, " to begin the process of redemption." In 1858 he settled himself in Jerusalem, where he founded several Kollels and together with Shmuel Salant created a body for representation of the Ashkenazim. Meir Auerbach had also brought great wealth to Jerusalem, which he proved to be a benefactor of the poor and at the same time to build new neighborhood outside the Old City walls - especially Mea Schearims - contributed.

With its up to today's widespread major work Imrei Bina, deals with the questions on all four parts of the Shulchan Aruch, he established, inter alia, the so-called Minhag Yerushalayim, which at Jewish weddings in Jerusalem the use of musical instruments prohibits, as long razed to the ground the temples. This minhag is to this day among the Ashkenazim and Chassidim most widespread attention.

Rabbi Meir Auerbach died in 1878 ( on 5 Iyar 5638 ) after a long illness in Jerusalem.

Chaim body Auerbach was his son.