Tzvi Ashkenazi

(: , * 1656 in Velké Meziříčí; † May 3, 1718 in Lviv Ashkenazi also ) called Chacham Zvi after the title of one of his responsa collections, a rabbi and Talmud scholar, particularly known was through his relentless fight against Zvi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi the teaching and student of the pseudo - Messiah Sabbetai intermediate.

Life

His first training was Ashkenazi with his grandfather, Rabbi Ephraim ben Jacob ha - Kohen in Old oven. Between 1776 and 1779 Ashkenazi held in Thessaloniki on at Cobo Eliyahu and Konstantin Opel to be there to acquire the Sephardic tradition of Talmud study. There he received the title Chacham and the surname Ashkenazi. After returning to the furnace, he married. His wife and daughter died in the siege furnace by Leopold I. died, and Ashkenazi fled to Sarajevo, where he served as rabbi of the Sephardic community. About Venice and Prague, he came to Berlin.

In Berlin Ashkenazi married the daughter of the chief rabbi of Altona Salman Mirels Neumark. In 1689 he settled in Altona down and taught until 1707 when Klaus rabbi in a study house, entertained the wealthy parishioners for him. After the death of his father he became his successor in 1707, together with Moses Rothenburg. However, both fell out due to a fierce debate about the halachic question as to whether an up found no heart chicken was kosher and suitable for consumption. Then left Ashkenazi Altona 1710 and accepted a position as rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Amsterdam. There he initially also maintained friendly relations with the Sephardic community and their rabbis Solomon Aylion. 1712 appeared under the title " Chacham Zvi ," a collection of his responsa.

The situation changed for Ashkenazi, as the Sabbatian travelers Nehemiah Chajon the Sephardic community asked for permission to disseminate his writings there. The Ashkenazi community leaders appointed and the Jerusalem Rabbi Moses Chagis, who was in Amsterdam, with an opinion on these writings and went over it with their own congregational rabbi Aylion. As the opinion of the writings finally sentenced, wrote Aylion a second opinion that there is nothing to complain about. The dispute escalated into a conflict between Ashkenazi and Sephardic community, the latter Chajon supported, while Ashkenazi and Chagis imposed the ban on him. Ashkenazi then submitted his office, left in 1714 and went to Amsterdam at the invitation of the Sephardic community to London, then to Opatow in Poland and was built in 1717 appointed as rabbi in Lemberg shortly before his death.

Ashkenazi was considered a brilliant legal scholar and received requests for reports from all over Europe.

Three of his sons were also rabbis, including Jacob Emden, who, like his father for a strict anti- Sabbatian position was known.