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Rabbi Hirschel Ben Arye Löb Levin (also known as Hart Lyon and Hirshel Löbel; 1721 – 26 August 1800) was Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and of Berlin, and Rabbi of Halberstadt and Mannheim, known as a scholarly Talmudist.




Life


He was born in Rzeszów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to Aryeh Löb and Miriam Lowenstam. His father was rabbi at Amsterdam and his mother was daughter of Rabbi Chacham Zvi Ashkenazi. He was a descendant of Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm.
His glosses on the Talmud appear in the Vilna edition under the name of Rabbi Tsvi Hersh Berlin. His son, Rabbi Solomon Hirschell was also Chief Rabbi of the British German and Polish Jewish community, and the first of the British empire. His other son, Saul Berlin, was a Talmudist and notorious forger of the Besamim Rosh.




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External links


Schechter, Solomon; Seligsohn, M. (1904). "Levin, Hirschel ben Aryeh Löb (called also Hirschel Löbel and Hart Lyon)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 39–40.
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Lyon, Hart" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Roth, Cecil. "The Rabbinate of Hart Lyon, 1758–1764". History of the Great Synagogue.
The British Chief Rabbinate

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