Yitzchak Yaacov Reines

Isaac Jacob Reines ( born October 27, 1839 in Karlin, Pinsk, † 1915 in Lida, Belarus today; Complete name Isaac Jacob ben Naphtali Salomon Pure, also: Pure Ya'acov ) was a Russian rabbi, Talmud scholar and co-founder of the Mizrachi movement, the Orthodox faction of the Zionist Organization.

Life

Pure was born in Karlin and trained in the yeshivot of Eischistok and Voloshin, in addition, he received instruction from his father, Rabbi Joseph Rosen in Hordok.

Pure officiated as rabbi in Lithuania, starting in Schukian; his second and at the same time last rabbinate was in Lida ( Vilna Governorate ), where he worked from 1885 until his death. Pure was since its origin a zealous champion of Hibbat Zion movement. He joined Rabbi Samuel Mohilever and proposed settlements before, where Torah study and physical labor should be connected together. Pure was one of the first rabbis who, contributed Theodor Herzl call to be a part of the Zionist movement sequence. Pure participated since 1897 in almost all Zionist congresses.

While his most Eastern and Western European colleagues Rabbi Herzl's political Zionism faced adverse, Pure published in 1902 the book Or Hadash al Zion ( " A new light on Zion "), a reply to the demands of anti-Zionist rabbis. In the same year he organized in Vilnius (according to other sources: in Minsk ) is a conference of religious Zionists, made based on the Mizrachi movement rapid progress ( the Mizrachi Federation was founded in 1901 by him). In 1903 he published the first magazine misrachistische Hamisrachi with S. Jawitz. At the 6th Congress ( Basel 1903), he was also one of the proponents of the British Uganda project.

1904, on the occasion of the founding congress of the total Mizrachi in Pressburg (now Bratislava), he was recognized as the head of all Misrachisten. In the same year, he fulfilled with the establishment of a fast -famous yeshiva in Lida his dream. There, general and religious subjects were taught, and in sharp contrast to the method pilpul standing that characterized the previous, mainly Eastern European Jewish scholarship, his methods were then exceptional.

His son Moses Pure emerged as a historian of Russian Jewry.

Other works

• Edut bi Jehosef, Vilnius 1866 ( comments to the work of his father )
• Edut be - Jacob, Vilnius 1872
• Chotem tochnit, 1880/1881, 2 volumes ( development of the plan of a new method of Talmud study )
• Scha'are orah, Vilnius 1886 ( about Haggadah and Midrash )
• Orim Gedolim, 1887 ( halachic )
• Nod shel dema'ot, 1891 ( Sermons )
• Or schibath hajomim, Vilnius 1896 ( halachic )
• Orach wesimcha, Vilnius 1898 ( on Purim )

• Rabbi
• Person ( Zionism )
• Russian
• Born in 1839
• Died in 1915
• Man