Rabbi Natan Neta Hanover - Al Kiddush Hashem

Rabbi Natan Neta ben Moshe Hanover (1683) - Talmudist, darshan, kabbalist, author of "Yeven Metzulah" and "Sha'arei Tzion", a very popular kabbalistic collection of tefillot and minhagim. Yahrzeit - 20 Tammuz Resting place - Uherský Brod, Moravia Rabbi Natan Neta Hanover lived in Zaslav in Volhynia, and when this town was attacked by the Cossacks, he fled to Prague, and then to Venice, where he studied Kabbalah under Rabbi Chaim ha-Cohen, Rabbi Moshe Zacuto, and also Rabbi Shmuel Aboab. Later he became rabbi of Iasi, Moldavia, and then, according to Jacob Aboab, returned to Italy. Rabbi Natan lived through the "Gzeirot Tach ve-Tat" (the horrific pogroms and bloody massacres of Khmelnytsky's bands in Poland and Ukraine in 1648-1649), when 100,000 Jews were killed. In his book "Yeven Metzulah" he described all the horrors and suffering of the Jews during those two years. He was a student of Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Edels - the Maharsha. He served as head of the Jewish court in Livorno (Italy), from where he continued on to Romania and became rabbi in Iasi and Focsani. Later he went to Uherský Brod, where he served as a darshan (expounder of Torah teachings). When the Turks laid siege to the city of Vienna, the Hungarians rose up against the Austrians and destroyed the town of Uherský Brod. They killed all the Jews present in the synagogue, among them Rabbi Natan Neta. "Yeven Metzulah" In his book "Yeven Metzulah," Hanover gives a brief description of the Polish crown of that time and the relations between the Poles, Jews, and Cossacks, as well as the causes that led to the uprising. He also gives a very vivid picture of Jewish life in Poland and in the yeshivot. This work, owing to its literary value, was translated into Yiddish (1687), into German (1720), and into French by Daniel Levy (published by Benjamin II, Tlemcen, 1855). This latter translation was edited by the historian J. Lelewel and served as the basis for the German translation by Meyer Kayserling (also published by Benjamin II, Hanover, 1863). Kostomarov, using Solomon Mandelkern's Russian translation, cites many excerpts from it in his "Bogdan Khmelnitsky" (III, 283-306). May the merit of the tzadik protect Am Yisrael! (https://dailyzohar.com/tzadikim/48-Rabbi-Natan-Neta-Hanover, wikipedia)