R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) - Reb Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes), wife, father in law and family

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Private User
1/12/2017 at 1:51 PM

A quick summary of https://www.geni.com/discussions/160846. The book Avos Atarah L'Bonim (http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46893&st=&pgnum=166) mistakenly gives the father of R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) as 'Yitzchok' presumably referring to Jitschak "Itzig" Aizik Kalifari and that Yitzchok was a son of Rabbi Yosef Hadarshan (Preacher) Calahorra (Kalifari), ABD Mohilev. This error is copied into numerous other works. The correct version is that R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) was a son of Aryeh Leib Kalifari who was a son of Jitschak "Itzig" Aizik Kalifari, son of Rabbi Jacob Kalifari A.B.D. Meisling, son of Arye Loeb Kalifari (The Posen Martyr), son of Rabbi Yosef Hadarshan (Preacher) Calahorra (Kalifari), ABD Mohilev. This is confirmed in 'Friedrich Spiro filologo e libraio: Per una storia della S. Calvary & Co' (https://books.google.co.il/books?id=LVXuAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&lp...) as mentioned in the other discussion https://www.geni.com/discussions/160846. Further confirmation is found in the book Ateres Paz - http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=29115&st=&pgnu... and most notably the tombstone - https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000052600386924. I found further confirmation of this, that the information in http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46893&st=&pgnum=166 is inaccurate; in a hebrew essay by the genealogy blogger Binyamin Phantaliat (בנימין פנטליאט) (of the genealogy site http://toladot.blogspot.co.il), here - https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000052600129833 in footnote 41 he notes the above.

It is the identity of the father-in-law of R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) I wish to discuss. http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46893&st=&pgnum=167 identifies him as Moshe Ivier, Ashkenazi and that is how it appears in the tree presently. (Tzvi Shimshi seems to say that it was the son Nathan Schotter who was a son-in-law of Moshe Ivier, Ashkenazi. However, this appears to be a misreading of his source - http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=771&st=&pgnum=208. The same misunderstanding occured many years later here - http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=13032&st=&pgnum=153 but is corrected by that author here - http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=13099&st=&pgnum=151.)

However, in the above mentioned essay by Binyamin Fantaliat (https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000052600129833) he writes that this point too, i.e. R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) being the son-in-law of Moshe Ivier, Ashkenazi is incorrect. I contacted Binyamin and asked for his source. He told me that R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) was the son in law of his uncle Moshe Kalifari. He also noted the unlikelihood of a Kaliphari of Posen marrying someone from Vilna.

I assume his source is http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=29115&st=&pgnu.... To translate: "... Aryeh Leib Kalifari [father of R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) who was called Reb Yaakov Rashes after his wife the daughter of his brother Reb Moshe] the son of Jitschak "Itzig" Aizik Kalifari..."

I think that passage can be read in three ways:
1) R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) who was called Reb Yaakov Rashes after his own wife who was the daughter of his own brother Reb Moshe, presumably Moritz Leo Asch was called Moshe.
This seems unlikely based on their dates of birth. Moritz Leo Asch was born in 1785 and R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) although we have no recorded DOB on Geni has a date of death of 1836. In the famous picture of him walking with Rabbi Akiva Eger mentioned here https://www.geni.com/discussions/160846 he appears already old, much older than a max 51.
2) R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) who was called Reb Yaakov Rashes after his own wife who was the daughter of his father Aryeh Leib Kalifari ‘s brother Reb Moshe. I haven’t found other record of a Moshe, brother of Aryeh Leib Kalifari. This is how Binyamin read it. Therefore, R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) was not the son-in-law of Moshe Ivier, Ashkenazi but Moshe Kalifari.
I argued; a) R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) was the son of a Rashe - Bobe Rasche Loeb, not the husband as shown in the current Geni tree. I am unsure of the source of this but it does not appear to be http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=29115&st=&pgnu.... b) Seems a bit strange that someone especially a great Rabbi should be called after his wife. c) "Rashe's" means of Rashe, denoting a son. d) Unlikely http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46893&st=&pgnum=167 just made it up off the top of his head that R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) was the son-in-law of Moshe Ivier, Ashkenazi.
I suggested a third possible reading: R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes) who was called Reb Yaakov Rashes after his (just mentioned) father’s - Aryeh Leib Kalifari wife i.e. his mother, who was the daughter of his father’s Aryeh Leib Kalifari brother Reb Moshe. Again, I haven’t found other record of a Moshe, brother of Aryeh Leib Kalifari.
Accordingly, the information given in http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46893&st=&pgnum=167 could still be correct. The current Geni tree shows my understanding.

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000050880545302 and https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000050559239006 both record that Yehuda Leib son of Nochum was a brother in law of R' Yaakov Kaliphari (Rashes). According to Binyamin this would mean that either Yehuda Leib married a daughter of Aryeh Leib Kalifari or Moshe Kalifari. According to my understanding he married either a daughter of Aryeh Leib Kalifari or Moshe Ivier, Ashkenazi.

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Private User
1/3/2022 at 7:23 AM

Would you be able to help me understand how R' Shlomo Zalman Lifshitz (Chemdas Schlomo) is related? As you mentioned in your previous discussion?

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