Rabbi Shmuel Strashun (Rashash) of Vilna

Known as "Harashash".

When, at a young age, he married Sarah Strashun and lived with her family, he took on her family name. Before that he was known as Shmuel Zoskovitzer, for the town where he was born. (from Isheii Israel. ---S. Portnoy)

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Samuel ben Joseph Strashun (1794–March 21, 1872) (Hebrew: שמואל שטראשון מוילנא‎), known also as Rashash (רש"ש) was a Russian Talmudist born in Zaskevich, government of Wilna. He was educated by his father, and became known as a proficient Talmudist. He married at an early age, and settled with his wife's parents in the village of Streszyn, commonly called Strashun (near Wilna), and assumed the latter name. The distillery owned by his father-in-law was wrecked by the invading French army in 1812, and the family removed to Wilna, where Samuel established another distillery and became one of the most prominent members of the community. His wife conducted the business, as was usual in Wilna, and he devoted the greater part of his time to studying the Talmud and to teaching, gratuitously, the disciples who gathered about him. The Talmud lectures which for many years he delivered daily at the synagogue on Poplaves street were well attended, and from the discussions held there resulted his annotations, which are now incorporated in every recent edition of the Babylonian Talmud (Hagahot v'Chiddushei HaRashash). His fame as a rabbinical scholar spread throughout Russia, and he conducted a correspondence with several well-known rabbis.

Strashun was offered the rabbinate of Suwałki, but he refused it, preferring to retain his independence. His piety did not prevent him from sympathizing with the progressive element in Russian Jewry, and he was one of the few Orthodox leaders who accepted in good faith the decree of the government that only graduates of the rabbinical schools of Wilna and Jitomir should be elected as rabbis. He wrote good modern Hebrew, spoke the Polish language fluently, was conspicuously kind and benevolent, and was highly esteemed even among the Christian inhabitants of Wilna. Besides the above-mentioned annotations, he wrote others to the Midrash Rabbot, which first appeared in the Wilna editions of 1843-45 and 1855. Some of his novellæ, emendations, etc., were incorporated in the works of other authorities. He died in Wilna on March 21, 1872. _________________________________________________________________________________________

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Translation Rabbinic scholars and public figures in nineteenth-century Vilna. Shemu’el Strashun (1793–1872) continued the Lithuanian style of scholarship that had been formulated by the Gaon of Vilna. Shemu’el’s son Matityahu (1817–1885) was a rabbi and a prominent maskil, biblical commentator, bibliographer, historian, and community organizer.

Born in Zaskevich, Belorussia, Shemu’el ben Yosef Strashun acquired a general education in addition to his rabbinic studies. He was married to Sara, the daughter of David Strashun, and took her surname. In 1812, Strashun moved to Vilna with his extended family and studied at a bet midrash established by his father-in-law. In 1827 he himself belonged to a group of local scholars who established the short-lived Yeshivat ha-Arba‘im.

As a scholar and researcher, Strashun’s most significant work was his Hagahot ha-Rashash ‘al Talmud Bavli on the Babylonian Talmud (first published as part of the 1864 edition of the Babylonian Talmud, then as an appendix to the 1885 edition), offering variant readings of the text. He was also a member of the proofreaders’ group in the Romm publishing house in Vilna. In this vein, he published similar analyses of Midrash Rabah (1843), the Oraḥ ḥayim section of the Shulḥan ‘arukh (1859), the writings of Maimonides (1870), and the five (biblical) scrolls (1885).

Khaykl Lunski (ca. 1881–1942 or 1943), chief librarian of the Strashun Library until its destruction by the Nazis during World War II, Vilna, ca. 1930s. (YIVO) Active in public affairs, by 1825 Strashun was serving on the governing body of the Vilna kahal, and he was a gaba’i (administrative official) of Ha-Tsedakah ha-Gedolah, the organization administering the social welfare system for Jews. In 1864, he joined the Ḥevrat Mekitse Nirdamim (Society of Those Who Awaken the Sleeping), an international group that promoted publication of older Hebrew manuscripts.

Matityahu (Mathias) Strashun was a prominent second-generation representative of the Haskalah in Vilna. By 1832, he had revealed his affiliation with the movement in a letter to Yitsḥak Ber Levinzon (Ribal), and in 1841, Strashun was a member of the teaching staff at the Haskalah-inspired school in Vilna established by Nisan Rozenthal. That same year, Strashun published an exegetical article in the maskilic periodical Pirḥe tsafon.

When Max Lilienthal visited Vilna in 1841–1842, Strashun was prominent among the members of local circles supporting Lilienthal’s project for government-sponsored secular and religious education. With a group of other maskilim, Strashun signed a request to the government to allow Lilienthal to extend his stay in the city. Similarly, in 1843 Strashun joined others in requesting the government to forbid the wearing of traditional Jewish garb.

In the 1860s, Strashun joined Ḥevrat Mekitse Nirdamim, and in 1865 he was chosen to be an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE). At the beginning of the 1870s, he took advantage of his public position and his good connections with state authorities to deal with the issue of Jewish conscription into the Russian army.

Strashun was the author of Sefer matat-Yah (Book of God’s Gift; the Hebrew title is a play on his own name; 1893), a commentary on the Midrash Rabah. He also published articles in Hebrew-language periodicals and newspapers, including Pirḥe Tsafon, Ha-Yonah, Kerem ḥemed, Ha-Magid, Ha-Karmel, ‘Ale hadas, Ha-Levanon, and Ha-Asif. Considered one of the first historians of the Vilna Jewish community, Strashun’s long article “Reḥovot kiryah” (Streets of the City) was printed as a supplement to Shemu’el Yosef Fuenn’s work Kiryah ne’emanah (A Faithful City; 1860).

As a major book collector, Strashun owned thousands of Hebrew texts and manuscripts, including religious writings, fiction, poetry, scientific works, Jewish and Karaite historical works, travel accounts, and Hasidic texts. A detailed list of the works in Strashun’s collection was published in the catalogue Likute shoshanim (A Bunch of Roses; 1889). Some years after his death, the collection served as the basis of the famous Strashun Library, which remained in Vilna until the Holocaust.

For most of his life Strashun was involved in Vilna’s Jewish communal affairs, out of interest and because he was one of the wealthier members of the Jewish population. He served as a gaba’i for several important public bodies, among them the Torah Study Society; the Burial Society; Ha-Tsedakah ha-Gedolah, and the Kupat Tsedakot ‘Oniye Erets Yisra’el, which provided charity to Jews in the Land of Israel. Strashun also served as rosh ha-kahal (community head). In 1868 he was chosen to serve on the board of the State Bank, a position that led to his receipt of a governmental gold medal in 1878. Always a well-known philanthropist, in his will he bequeathed large sums of money for various public purposes.

Suggested Reading Tsevi Harkavi, Le-Ḥeker mishpaḥot (Jerusalem, 1953), pp. 44–48; Tsevi Harkavi, Rabi Shemu’el Strashun mi-Vilna’ (Jerusalem, 1956/57); Israel Klausner (Yisra’el Kloizner), Vilna, Yerushalayim de-Lita: Dorot ri’shonim, 1495–1881 (Loḥame ha-Geta’ot, Isr., 1988); Mordechai Zalkin, Ba-‘Alot ha-shaḥar (Jerusalem, 2000); Mordechai Zalkin, “Samuel and Mattityahu Strashun: Between Tradition and Innovation,” in Mattityahu Strashun, 1817–1885: Scholar, Leader, and Book Collector, ed. Yermiyahu Aharon Taub, cur. Aviva E. Astrinsky, pp. 1–28 (New York, 2001).

YIVO Archival Resources RG 223, Abraham Sutzkever–Szmerke Kaczerginski, Collection, 1806-1945.

Author Mordechai Zalkin

Translation Translated from Hebrew by I. Michael Aronson

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March 21, 1872), one of the greatest Lithuanian Jews, one of the leaders of the Vilna Jewish community in his generation, and one of the most important commentators The latest Talmud. Known for his righteousness and generosity, his glosses and innovations for the Talmud were printed in all Shas editions based on the Ram-Vilna printing edition.

His resume Shmuel Strashon - Signature.jpg His signature Born in Zaskovich to Rasa, daughter of Rabbi Eliyahu of Volozhin, Av Beit Din of Smurgun and Zaskovich, and to Rabbi Yosef ben Rabbi Shmuel Zaskevitzer, who was Av Beit Din of Zaskovich for twenty years until his death. He was named 'Samuel' after this grandfather.

Until his marriage to a member of the Strashon family, Shmuel Zaskovich was named after his hometown. Already in his youth and became famous for his scholarship , Rabbi Avraham Danzig in his book "The wisdom of man" (reprinted Tka"b, HaRashash being only 18 years of age), Bint person (Gate prohibited and permitted the end of the sign), brings the name "Show me another time ripe Moharash Zaskewitzer … ".

He married Sarah, the daughter of Rabbi David son of Rabbi Matityahu from the village of Shtrashon ( Strashin ) and adopted her last name.

In 1902, the whole family moved to Vilnius, his father-in-law bought a large stone house and founded a beit midrash "R. David Strashoner's Klois" there. After his father-in-law's death, the couple made a living from the business that Sarah managed with her brother And R. Moshe. Rash himself was also involved in business affairs until they reached the age of 50.

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Upon arriving in Vilnius (Vilna), he befriended Rabbi Mordechai Meltzer and studied with him in Chavruta (in the "Yeshivat Ha'aravim")

In the years 1825-1827, he was elected and served as the breadwinner of the Vilna community. On February 6, 1854, his wife, Sarah, died at the age of 60. He remarried Esther, daughter of Rabbi Michael Katzin, one of the dignitaries of Vilnius. The wooden synagogues) on Poplavs Street in Vilnius (Vilna) where he lived (according to a report in the Maggid of K. Sivan S.Z.).

On December 1, 1870, his son Rabbi Eliyahu died on his face, and on August 24, 1871, his daughter Zlata Rodner died. He himself died on March 21, 1872. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Vilnius (Vilna) with Rabbi Avraham Abli Pasweller.

genealogy his family The eldest brother of Rashash, Rabbi Menashe Zaskewitzer (died on November 17, 1855) was Av Beit Din of Zaskevitz after their two grandparents. .

The sister of the Rashash, Hannah Mina (died and was buried in Ilya, May 2, 1881), married Rabbi Zvi Hirsch (Zaskwitzer) in Arkman (died on October 23, 1879, in Vilnius) , And was buried under the leadership of R. Zvi Hirsch Katzenelnbogen) who was known for his pedigree and for being extremely knowledgeable in Hoshen Mishpat. His father "the famous head" Rabbi Yitzchak (died on May 10, 1825) was buried in the ancient cemetery of Vilna under the leadership of R. Dicker, and his paternal grandfather Rabbi Aharon Issachar Ber son of Rabbi Natan (died on the 29th of Tammuz?)?

His descendants Rabbi Shmuel Strashon had three sons and three daughters:

Rabbi Eliyahu Strashon - a wise and learned student, lived and worked in Vilnius and died during his father's life. Among his duties he was a teacher in the rabbinical seminary in Vilnius (Vilna), and a proofreader in the Ram printing press. His first wife was the daughter of Rabbi Bezalel Shatiker of Salant, after her death he married Hadassah, daughter of Rabbi David Zvi Broida, son of Rabbi Binyamin Broida, Av Beit Din of Horde.

1. His son David Gersh [Wen] was born in Vilna in 1843. 1. grandson Ilya Davidovich Strasin (Илья Давыдович Страшун) was a Soviet historian of medicine and rector of the School of Medicine is considered "Первый Санкт-Петербургский государственный медицинский университет имени академика И. П. Павлова, ПСПбГМУ им. Акад. И. П. Павлова" (English : First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg). His second wife was the Soviet-Jewish poet Vera Mikhailovna Inbar.

Rabbi Matityahu Strashon - a wise student and self-taught scholar, owner and founder of the famous Strashon Library and one of the leaders of the Jewish community in Vilnius (Vilna). Died childless on December 15, 1855, at the age of 68. Rabbi Yosef - a wise student, lived in the city of Hummel .

His son Rabbi David inherited the writings of the Rashash and his uncle the Ramesh. Author of " Lamentations of David " (Vilna 1866) on the death of Ramash. Zlata, wife of Rabbi Jeremiah Rotner (Ratner, Rodner). Their son, David Radner, published the article "The Two Golden Pipes " on the history of Rashash and his son Ramash, in the "Great Knesset". The siren 11 Cheshvan 1853 - Simcha Lifshitz News in the siren, Ya Cheshon Tarmag, about the death of his son-in-law R. Simcha Lifshitz Wife of Rabbi Simcha Lifshitz of Hordana (died 11 Elul 1852, August 26, 1882).

Charna Eita (died on February 14, 1895), wife of Rabbi Yosef Bezalel Harkabi (died on January 22, 1874, and not on January 13, 1895). 1872. Harkabi, For the Study of Families, p. 43 and note 65a, erred in this in the wake of the city of Vilna. One daughter is Deborah Ram, the widow of R. David Ram ("the widow" from "The Widow and the Ram Brothers"), and another daughter was the wife of his brother R. Menachem of Gabriel Ram (hence the name of Riv Harkabi "father-in-law of Ram printers") Harkabi, son-in-law of Rabbi Reuven Katz , was their grandson: son of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Harkabi, son of their son Rabbi Gershon.

[Note: In Steinschneider '(City of Vilnius, p. 227) it is quoted:… Shmuel Strashon ztl. The name of the daughter of Rashash who was married to him is unknown and it is possible that she later married Rash Lifshitz].

On him After his death, several reports have been printed in the press reviews the life and the death, some reports receiver (with corrections and minor changes) pamphlet " level Samuel " (Aiidtkohnan Trl"g). Below we cite these stories for the benefit of readers:

Woe to us that the sun has come down Woe me come Hsm"s! Thursday XI Adar II [Htrl"b] cloud fraught with terrible sadness and grief suddenly casserole name of our town [Vilna] pure and brilliant sun shining whose class name Vilna Gaon walked majestically glory days Many, and who radiate from him to illuminate the land and dream of it, suddenly come and gather in this bitter and hurried day, and the city will be darkened in the day of light! "The bright sun" Dear readers, who according to our winery today, the Torah and the righteous among the paternal between maternal (Info 'book faithful p 255)] our teacher Rabbi Samuel Strashun Great Rabbi Rabbi Yosef Remembered Forever famous die out and gathered to his people. Rabbi gaon this, read the 'On the earth it is seventy-eight years, and a precious light will shine on us in his walks and his way in the sanctuary, in his teachings and innovations.

Ahh! We have lost this holy man of God! This candle of God has not yet been extinguished, and the righteous rabbi Rabbi Shmuel is lying on his bed, and the rumor has spread that the sunTended to bail, and the doctors decided that he had no way of ascending it, a great darkness fell upon all the inhabitants of our city, hearing that today their lord, exalted and champion would take over their heads. All the people of the congregation poured out a discourse to the God of heaven for the length of his life and years to give to his own soul in their question, and in secret their soul wept over the rupture of their people and his honor lest he should find out from him. And their hearts were anxious and afraid of this ark of God. But in vain, because God demanded from above, and D. calls Samuel for a week of rejoicing his face and to walk with him in the body of Eden Ginta. And this Ark of God was taken in the evening of the 5th hour of the evening, and soon it was heard in all the streets of the eulogy and in every street they shouted Hoy! Hoy! Hoy Lord! And oh India! Crying and mourning bitterly, and crowds crowds flocked there and descended like a stream of tears, these shouted across. These are Mr. Yabchion inwards: Aya Fe Kadosh? And what is the golden tongue that gives Emery Sheffer ?! The crown of our head fell, we lost our covetousness!

On the morning as the morning dawned after they announced on behalf of the rabbis of the Metz a page in all the Beit Midrashim to strike from every craft and from every handiwork and also from Talmud Torah [the language of the proclamation: a message from the rabbis of the Metz Etc. For the sake of the people, they will pray everywhere in the morning before the ninth hour and from the ninth hour until the 11th hour. All the shops in the city will be locked everywhere (except the shops that sell food for the Sabbath) and all artisans are obliged to cancel their work during these two hours. , TT GC will also be canceled from the tenth hour until the 11th hour, and everyone (and especially all the people of Zaretz) will gather immediately after the ninth hour in the courtyard of the house of the Gaon Ateret Rosh, the late Rabbi R. Shmuel Strashon.The above-mentioned, to carry his ark from there to the courtyard of the Great Synagogue Dafa Vilna, where everyone will gather at ten o'clock to mourn the late Tzaddik Gaon, and to hang him from there to Beit Moed for every living place of honor. And all the house of Israel will weep, etc., because in the OT he showed honor from Israel to the lesson of the Ark of God, and Erelim and Tzukim seized the IQ and defeated Erelim etc. in the Ov. And everyone is obliged to come to mourn the late righteous and give him this last honor because he honored the Torah Dadifa Tuba, Valman Datni and Matani, etc. Dalit Lia Shiura, and the Torah and the non-matzah of Demgani Alan Hashata in the OT, and God will define our loopholes, etc., for life, and the right of the late genius Tzaddik will stand for us and atone for us This ark was on their shoulders, and they would put it in the beit midrash where he prayed and studied for ten consecutive years at the end of his life after prayer until midnight, and he did not sit for a single moment all his days in the house of God, and they mourned him there and the mourner read the Bible: And the candle of God is not yet extinguished and Samuel is lying in the fourth temple, lying? Oh and woe to our Rabbi Shmuel lying down! Has not he ever sat in Hall D, and studied only standing in holiness and purity, and now he is lying down? And all the people wept bitterly. And Tanya and Ania awoke. And another eulogy read of him this call: "Who among you is left who saw this house in its first glory and what do you see it now"? For in the coming out of this Tzaddik Revealed His Majesty Turned Ziv Turned Glory! And all the people continued to weep over him, and their cry ascended to heaven. From there they carried him to the courtyard of the Great Priest, and a voice called: Clear the bearers of the vessels of the Lord! And right now and here the courtyard is full of people to the brim. Crowds of crowds stood crowded and frightened in the city streets to see the coffin, and there the rabbi carried a second page. , And all the people their sons lamented! And from there they brought him into the sanctuary and put him on the pulpit against the ark to say: It exists, etc. Then they brought up this ark of God and carried it to his resting place in honor. The people broke through and passed through the gate of the Great Synagogue and their champion passed before them and the Torah of Gd at their head. Oh what a horrible sight this holy journey was! The doors were closed in the market, the courtyards and houses were emptied, and the streets were filled with applause and sighs. A noise from the streets of the city is a voice from the halls of D. from its churches and houses of study, because the great and loud man walks in giants to the house of his world.

His son, Rabbi C. Hacham Kollel and the glorious Gavir Moharram Matityahu Strashon, walks after the staff with his hands on his head and in a bitter voice shouts: Avi! Avi! K. Hamela, and his eyes did not see in the lesson the crown of his head above him) and all the congregation of the congregation of Israel after him in a voice like him will thunder, their hands spread out awnings on the ark that goes and travels within the people. There, in the courtyard of the city of death, Rabbi MM Damta, who is mentioned again, laments and thinks: If you send the Ark of God to his resting place, do not return it empty, because if you return, you will return to him the whole of your tears and the whole of your princes. It sounds like we robbed? Aya the Tzaddik is a governor in the fear of God? And all the people will weep until they have no strength to weep. And the coffin is also shelved! The bearers of the staff and all those involved in burying the body Living in our community

And now dear readers who mourn him! It is easy to think that the Vilna sect will sober up, spread its coercion and go prostrate because its glorious majesty and glory, and the glorious monastery, have taken the precious stone; But if you would like, dear readers, to present to you today the ways of the Tzaddik Gaon and his walks in the sanctuary which were very lofty and sublime, being engraved on tablets (the Maggid / Lebanon) as a sign and example to many, I can tell you that no one like me today describes To the aforesaid after which even if I lift up my eyes and my eyelids very high they will not reach my gaze to the great man as tall as this giant, and most of all the heads of more water and the eyes of a source of tears on our great broken sea. But as far as I am concerned, I am the writer to pray with the aforementioned Rabbi Gaon for about ten years in one beit midrash, and sometimes also to ask for Torah from the mouth of the angel of the four armies when I announced many times in the Maggid by name (and not vertical alone). Rabbi Gaon Rabbeinu Shmuel is about to teach them Torah and work together) and I gave my heart to look a little at the ends of his paths,

And though the power of his memory was so exceedingly strong that his mind was pure and deep and deep, yet his study of his study was very great until even if he learned a hundred and one times one thing, when he returned and changed this time the KB, there all his eyes and study it again for the first time and honor The matter is new to him! - All the days of his life the Lord was blessed with wealth and be generous and generous and generous, and the righteousness of his scattering is very great with goodness and goodness at all times as known at our city gate, his house was always open to the spirit, to receive every person [J] vagina and love and cheers. Signs of grief and sadness were never seen on his pure face, even though sometimes the cases of time and his injuries also touched the aforementioned rabbi [in 1814, the wife of his youth died on him, a very excellent woman, a wise woman who surpassed all their servants in women (by text Her tombstone in Shashak Kha'a) and on the seventh day of Kislev 1801 his eldest son in Torah and fearless in his deeds died on his face, etc. Rabbi Mo'a When he returned and changed this time the KB, put all his eyes and study it again for the first time and the honor of the matter is new with him! - All the days of his life the Lord was rich and generous, generous and gifted, and the righteousness of his scattering is very great with good and good at all times. His house was always open to the spirit, to receive every man in [bar] p [nim] y [vows] and in love and cheering. Signs of grief and sadness were never seen on his pure face, even though sometimes the cases of time and his injuries also touched the aforementioned rabbi [in 1814, the wife of his youth died on him, a very excellent woman, a wise woman who surpassed all their servants in women (by text Her tombstone in Shashak Kha'a) and on the seventh day of Kislev 1801 his eldest son in Torah and fearless in his deeds died on his face, etc. Rabbi Mo'a When he returned and changed this time the KB, put all his eyes and study it again for the first time and the honor of the matter is new with him! - All the days of his life the Lord was rich and generous, generous and gifted, and the righteousness of his scattering is very great with good and good at all times. His house was always open to the spirit, to receive every man in [bar] p [nim] y [vows] and in love and cheering. Signs of grief and sadness were never seen on his pure face, even though sometimes the cases of time and his injuries also touched the aforementioned rabbi [in 1814, the wife of his youth died on him, a very excellent woman, a wise woman who surpassed all their servants in women (by text Her tombstone in Shashak Kha'a) and on the seventh day of Kislev 1801 his eldest son in Torah and fearless in his deeds died on his face, etc. Rabbi Mo'a His house was always open to the spirit, to receive every man in [bar] p [nim] y [vows] and in love and cheering. Signs of grief and sadness were never seen on his pure face, even though sometimes the cases of time and his injuries also touched the aforementioned rabbi [in 1814, the wife of his youth died on him, a very excellent woman, a wise woman who surpassed all their servants in women (by text Her tombstone in Shashak Kha'a) and on the seventh day of Kislev 1801 his eldest son in Torah and fearless in his deeds died on his face, etc. Rabbi Mo'a His house was always open to the spirit, to receive every man in [bar] p [nim] y [vows] and in love and cheering. Signs of grief and sadness were never seen on his pure face, even though sometimes the cases of time and his injuries also touched the aforementioned rabbi [in 1814, the wife of his youth died on him, a very excellent woman, a wise woman who surpassed all their servants in women (by text Her tombstone in Shashak Kha'a) and on the seventh day of Kislev 1801 his eldest son in Torah and fearless in his deeds died on his face, etc. Rabbi Mo'aEliyahu Zelah, whose memory of his death and the affair of his greatness I wrote in the Maggid Shana Tu. And then on the seventh day of Elul he died suddenly in the face of the ill-health of his dear daughter in women, himself a number of her good deeds in grace and justice openly and secretly Mrs. ZlataThe late, except for some adventures in his business (which he engaged in for several hours a day until he was about fifty, because then he turned from all his business and his teaching was his foster father all day and all night until he returned to his soil) and all the above made no impression on his leadership and order. Accept the judgment of heaven with great love and quietness of spirit and let there be wonder and amazement!] But the light of his face did not fall because the doctrine of God in which he conceived day and night was always his amusement and pleasant wear in the glorification of a saint always hovering over his face. His conversations in the DA were very pleasant and instructive (to Ehrreich) and need to be learned, and he never uttered a heartbreaking speech to anyone, whether in his face or not. On his sitting in a gathering of great heart investigators, the above-mentioned Rabbi drew the eye that sees him first in his brilliant face (Ahh on the island of Shufra Debala in Ofra!) And his great wisdom which enlightened his face, is not it a precious moon walking among the armies of the stars of heaven!

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But I will not exterminate under my tongue either, because although the late Rabbi Gaon was very meticulous in his actions, yet one is the one who did not keep properly, and that is, that the religion of pride which in the eighth was allowed to Tah, did not keep the aforementioned Rabbi, For he did not know in his innocence what pride is, and the purpose of hatred is hatred, and he did not conduct himself in the rabbinate as is well known. In the year 1855-6, he was elected mayor and mayor of the city against his will, because the great men and dignitaries did not allow him to escape Faith to do justice and righteousness in his people, and in the wisdom according to which he conducted his congregation over who rests, whenever he was compelled to put his heart into the affairs of the congregation, for (when I said) in his righteousness he always fled from dominion.

In the wisdom of the feature of engineering and algebra, as well as in geography, his knowledge was very broad, and he had a great knowledge of the Bible almost orally in flavors and tradition. .

And these are the new ones that the genius Zellah wrote: B) Chronicles and precious notes on Midrash Rabbah (printed in Vilna with the Midrash which is according to the cascade of the streams, and from the second edition according to the rabbi from the late Rabbi). And on five scrolls there is a manuscript). On D. parts of Maimonides and wonderful and short news (Vilna printing press 1818). (D) Chodeshim and short remarks on Shulchan Aruch (graph with the Shulchan Aruch Vilna printing press). And tents.

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And after our kind and dear sayings are pure sayings in faint sapphires the words of our teacher Rabbi the genius Tzaddik Zelah I said to copy his golden tongue at the end of his months on the Shas which he said with the book: I glorified these for all the whole Shas as the exalted man, I knew that neither by the power of my wisdom are drives and not my own arm for me to bring them up on the book without your many mercies which I will use, Your grace is about to publish also other innovations that have already been written with me, and which will be renewed with me with your help, the gift of knowledge! Zallah, the Golden Achel. Is there anything sweeter than this?And the sun shone upon you, the sun of charity and healing in its wings.

Vilna . Shraga Fayville Elknitzky

[The Maggid year sixteen tax. 16. and Lebanon eighth year tax. LA and LB]

In memory of the world he will be righteous (one year after his death) Vilna. In remembrance of the world, every great and wise tzaddik , every rabbi and genius, his living memory is alive in the hearts of our people even after writing throughout the land: And we can rightly say: The righteous in their death are called alive. [-]. These feelings were shown by the inhabitants of our city yesterday in memory of the death of one of the greatest of the generation; Yesterday, on the tenth day of Adar, for the period of the year, the Tzaddik Gaon and Rabbi Shmuel Strashon, the late Rabbi Shmuel Strashon, gathered in the Beit Midrash, where he prayed and studied during his lifetime, and Rabbi Damta Rabbi YM. On him eulogized signs, the house was full of word of mouth people, terrible sadness and terrible sorrow resided over all in memory before them all the great affair of the late Rabbi Gaon, his great righteousness and wisdom, his good deeds and charitable deeds exalted and known to all on the island of our city. Country. Crowded stood all gathered in the presence of the Ark of the Covenant from which the eulogy aroused his lamentation; In front of them is the family of the late Gaon Harama and headed by his son Rabbi the wise genius including our Rabbi Matityahu Strashon N.Y. Ateret Tiferet our city and its consolation after the lesson Adoniya over her head, his father the late Gaon. Desalination " This is how the inhabitants of our city showed their sadness and mourning after the late genius and more, and I hereby present to you, esteemed readers, the wording of the lament (a notebook by H.R.P. By an artist and will be hung above the place which the late genius still in life set upon him for his study and prayer, in remembrance of the world for their sorrow and grief. During the whole period of the year he did not sit down to sit on this place, many books were placed on him which the genius ztl conceived and studied himself. This large tablet will live in splendor against the next in this beit midrash; on both sides of the lament are two books on low-rise trees Their branches are cut off, and from among the Afaim who will swim to the land of their heads, the sound of weeping, reeds and the steering wheel will be aroused.

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In memory of Hall D!

Who will ascend Mount D? And who will rise in his holy place?

Man doom!

Stand up!

Do not come close!

Of your shoes!

This place is holy land! Here he stood and meditated in the Torah on this Mount Sinai, in the glorification of his holiness the Tzaddik Gaon Rabbeinu Shmuel (LFK)

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HH the gaon justified a humble devotee and increasing the secrets of Torah God revealed it is a holy man of Rabbi Samuel Strashun of Rabbi Yosef Remembered Forever. Bahm"h glosses on the Talmud, Midrash Rabba, Maimonides equivalent, Apart from many newcomers who remain in the handwriting and are printed in other books of his name and his soul went out in holiness and purity "on the 11th of Adar Shani" to PK

And you, dear publisher, put this lament before the readers and the whole house of Israel will mourn in their memory their great loss and the right of the late genius will protect us and all Israel.

V. Habib

[Lebanon, 27 Adar 1864]

Bibliography: city of Vilna, page 250 onwards ♦ Isaac Eliyahu Landa, Samuel ♦ deer level composition, the history HaRashash and writings .

( More about the death of his son R. Eliyahu , the Maggid, as Kislev H. Terla).

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