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R' Elazar Rokeach - wrong image and mistaken identity and family name

Started by Private User on Wednesday, September 9, 2015
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Private User
9/9/2015 at 4:01 PM

Several mistakes exist in this record. First and foremost is the image of the Maase Rokeach, this person's great grandfather.
We have the image (of the great grandfather) because of a coin made in honor of the great grandfather.

It was one of the first cases where an image was used by Jews, and following its failed condemnation by Rabbi Yaakov Emdin, using images (of any sort) began its slow seep into acceptance. But the image is NOT of this Elazar Rokeach II.

By the way, according to the following learned information, Rabbi Elozor of Brody-Amsterdam himself NEVER USED THE LAST NAME ROKEACH, so in fact there was no Elozor Rokeach I and Elozor Rokeach II, but only Rabbi Elozor (Margolios) of Brody-Amsterdam (Safed/Hebron) and one Rabbi Elozor Rokeach (who we called II).

http://www.academia.edu/4364068/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A8_%D7%...
Malka Mysels C
9/10/2015 at 7:06 AM

Private User Thank you so much for sharing this important new information, and alerting us to revisions that need to be made.

Would you like to make the changes on the profile?

yossi rokach
6/19/2023 at 5:53 AM

it says on wikipedia that he died at the age of 32 not 37-38 wich means his death was in 1788

Shlomo Flam PRO
6/22/2023 at 12:45 PM

Which wikipedia are you referring to. The English Hebrew or Yiddish. Each has different details.

Which Elozor Rokeach are you referring to? The rabbi of Amsterdam, his grandfather, or perhaps the son of Sar Shulem of Belz?

The Hebrew Wikipedia has a source that shows that the Rabbi of Amsterdam came to Israel when he was around 56 and must have died after he came so....
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/אלעזר_רוקח_(רב)
I hope you can read the Hebrew. My son Moshe is the one who wrote most of the English entry and parts of the Hebrew one.

If you are referring to Rabbi Elozor of Brody there is no Wikipedia entry that I know of in any of those languages.

Shlomo Flam PRO
6/22/2023 at 12:48 PM

Please note that this discussion is about Rabbi Eliezer of Brody.
Eluzar Rokeach of Brody

...who, as my son pointed out, was not Rokeach.

yossi rokach
6/23/2023 at 5:24 AM

I'm referring to reb alazar rokeach of brody the sar shulem's father.
wikipedia (English) says he died at the age of 32 (1788) not 37-38 (1793)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholom_Rokeach

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