Grave

Nataniel Yaakov Weil

"Korban Nesanel"

Yahrzeit (Hillula)

30 Nisan — Rabbi Nathaniel Weil - the "Korban Nathaniel"

Rabbi Nataniel Yaakov ben Tzvi Hirsch Weil – "Korban Nesanel" (1687-1769) Yahrzeit – 30 Nisan Burial place – Karlsruhe, Germany Rabbi Nataniel was born in 1687 in Steilingen into the family of Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weil, a wealthy and learned Jewish family, seventh-generation descendants of Rabbi Yaakov Weil (16th century) – the Maharival. In 1692, when he was 5 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 in Bohemia), who raised him as a father would. There he studied at the yeshiva of Rabbi Avraham of Brody and married his niece Feigele. Together with his teacher he moved to the city of Metz, where he was elected rabbi of that community, but later he returned to Prague and headed a large yeshiva there. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Prague in 1745, Rabbi Nataniel Weil accepted the position of state rabbi in the Black Forest region; he lived in Mühringen near Horb until 1750, when he was appointed chief rabbi of the margraviates of Baden-Baden and Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe. Most influential are Weil's studies of the textual variants of Rabbeinu Asher ben Yechiel's commentary on the Talmud, which appeared in Karlsruhe in 1755 under the title "Korban Nesanel." His other books appeared after the Rav's passing: "Netiv Chaim" (Fürth, 1779), with explanations on the Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, and "Torat Nataniel" (Fürth, 1795). Rav Nataniel is buried in the Jewish cemetery on Kriegstrasse in Karlsruhe. His son Tiah Weil succeeded him as rabbi of Baden in 1780. Another son, Shimon Hirsch, printed his book "Netiv Chaim." A segula from "Parashat Balak" from "Korban Nesanel" https://silatehilim.com/сгула-рабби-йешаяу-пинто-чтение-пара/ May the merit of the tzadik protect Am Yisrael! (from a trip to the Kivrei Tzadikim in Alsace-Lorraine with Rabbanit Chava Kuperman)