Pinchas Horowitz

Pinchas Horowitz ( Pinchas Ben-Zvi Hirsch Ha -Levi, * 1730 in Czortkow; † July 1, 1805 in Frankfurt am Main ) was from 1771 until his death rabbi in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Horowitz was born in Czortkow, where his father was a rabbi. He first studied under his father and later with his two brothers, Nachum and Samuel Horowitz, who later became rabbi of Mikulov was. During this time he visited with his brother, the circle around Rabbi Dov Baer of Mezritch while getting to know Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the founder of the Chabad movement. Horowitz was at first rabbi in the small Polish town Witkowo and 1764 in Lachowicze. 1771, he held a chair at the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main, where he remained as rabbi until his death. In Frankfurt Horowitz led a private minyan, where the Sephardic rite was followed during the rest of the Jews of Frankfurt followed the Ashkenazic rite. Exception was next Pinchas Horowitz Rabbi Nathan Adler only ( Nathan Ben Simon Hakohen eagle ) which has a public minyan established by sephardischem rite in the Jewish street and was for 1779 and 1789, even with the consent of Horowitz, spellbound.

Horowitz was a vehement opponent of the Haskalah movement. In 1782 he preached against the German translation of the Bible by Moses Mendelssohn and the associated commentary, the so-called Biur. Despite his criticism of Mendelssohn's translation he approved the German translation of Wolf Heidenheim Machsor, the Prayer Book for Jewish holidays. Among his most famous students included Rabbi Nathan Adler, who in turn was the teacher of Moses Sofer, who respected his Talmudic erudition and his halachic authority. Horowitz wrote mainly comments on some Talmudic treatises. His two major works include Sefer Hafla'ah and shevet Achim ( "If brothers sitting together " about ). This track he explains as follows: "It is desirable that brothers sit together and strive at the same time to have a clear study and a clear halacha. Only through a thorough study of Halachot and a focus on their results, it is possible to understand the early poskim ( rabbinic authorities ) and the depth of their systems. "

Horowitz was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt am Main. Ssein grave stone remains and to visit on the field of honor in the south-west to part of the cemetery. In the web links found on an online database of the inscription on the grave Males, but also reveals a discrepancy in the date of death.