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8 Nisan · Yahrzeit

Rabbi Eliyahu Shapiro - the "Eliyahu Rabbah"

Rabbi Eliyahu ben Binyamin Wolf Shapiro (1660–1712) - the "Eliyahu Rabbah" Yahrzeit - 8 Nissan Burial Place - Prague   Rabbi Eliyahu was the brother-in-law of Yaakov Reischer and a student of Avraham Gombiner. He served as rabbi in Tiktin, and later as preacher and head of the large Talmudic academy in his native city of Prague. He published "Eliyahu Zuta," a commentary on the part of the Levush, authored by Rav Mordechai Yoffe, relating to the Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim (Prague, 1689, 1701). His valuable work "Eliyahu Rabbah" (Sulzbach, 1757), containing commentary on Orach Chaim, was printed posthumously by his son, whose name is not recorded. "Shishah Shittot" - a treatise on six Talmudic tractates, was published by his grandson Eliyahu ben Wolf Shapiro (Fürth, 1768). His manuscript writings, including commentaries on the Torah and Talmud, as well as sermons, responsa, and so on, were destroyed by fire in 1754. He ascended to the Heavenly Yeshiva on April 14, 1712. May the merit of the tzadik protect Am Yisrael! (https://hebrewbooks.org/7767)