30 Nisan · Yahrzeit
Rabbi Nathaniel Weil - the "Korban Nathaniel"
Rabbi Nathaniel Yaakov ben Tzvi Hirsch Weil - the "Korban Nathaniel" (1687-1769)
Yahrzeit - 30 Nissan
Resting place - Karlsruhe
Rabbi Nathaniel was born in 1687 in Steilingen to Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weil, into a wealthy and learned Jewish family, descendants in the seventh generation of Rabbi Yaakov Weil (16th century) - the Maharival.
In 1692, when he was five years old, his father was killed, and in 1697 his mother Miriam brought him to Fürth, from where he was sent by wagon to Prague to his uncle, his father's brother, Rabbi Lipman of Lichtenstadt (later of Rosenzin, Bohemia), who raised him as a father would. There he studied at the yeshiva of Rabbi Avraham of Brod and married his niece, Feigele.
Together with his teacher he moved to the city of Metz, where he was chosen as the town's rabbi, but later he returned to Prague and headed a large yeshiva there.
Following the expulsion of the Jews from Prague in 1745, Rabbi Nathaniel Weil accepted the position of state rabbi in the Black Forest; he lived in Mühringen, near Horb, until 1750, when he was appointed chief rabbi of the Margraviate of Baden-Baden and the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe.
Weil's most influential work is his study of textual variants of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel's commentary on the Talmud, which appeared in Karlsruhe in 1755 under the title "Korban Nathaniel."
His other books appeared after the Rav's passing: "Netiv Chaim" (Fürth, 1779), with explanations on the Shulchan Aruch and Orach Chaim.
"Torat Nathaniel" (Fürth, 1795).
Rav Nathaniel is buried in the Jewish cemetery on Kriegstrasse in Karlsruhe.
His son Tia Weil succeeded him in 1780 as rabbi of Baden. Another son, Shimon Hirsch, printed his book "Netiv Chaim."
May the merit of the tzadik protect Am Yisrael!
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Grave: Nataniel Yaakov Weil