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Rabbi Akiva Eiger or Eger (1761-1837) was a Jewish scholar and influential halakhic decisor (posek). While his name is commonly spelled Eiger, official documents in possession of his family mention the name Eger Citation needed. Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī;; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished, (in knowledge). In the ancient Judean schools the sages were addressed as רִבִּי (Ribbi...
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1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
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He was born as Akiva Güns in Eisenstadt, Hungary. He was recognised as a child prodigy, and was educated first at the Mattersdorf Yeshiva and later under his uncle, Rabbi Wolf Eger, at the Breslau Yeshiva. Out of respect for his uncle he changed his surname to Eiger. He therefore shared the name Akiva Eiger with his maternal grandfather. Eisenstadt (Hungarian Kismarton, Croatian Željezno) is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. ...
Mattersburg (former Mattersdorf, Hungarian: Nagymarton) is a town in Burgenland, Austria in the rural vineyard region of the country. ...
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He was the rabbi of the city of Posen for the last twenty five years of his life. He was a rigorous casuist of the old school, and his chief works were legal notes on the Talmud and the Shulkhan Arukh. He believed that religious education was enough, and thus opposed the party which favoured secular schools. He was a determined foe of the reform movement, which began to make itself felt in his time. Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī;; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished, (in knowledge). In the ancient Judean schools the sages were addressed as רִבִּי (Ribbi...
Posen (Polish: Poznań): is the German name of the city of Poznań, Poland. ...
The Talmud (תלמוד) is a record of rabbinic discussions on Jewish law, Jewish ethics, customs, legends and stories, which Jewish tradition considers authoritative. ...
The Shulkhan Arukh (Hebrew: Prepared Table), by Rabbi Yosef Karo is considered the most authoritative compilation of Jewish law since the Talmud. ...
His daughter, Sarah, was the second wife of Rabbi Moses Sofer. Moses ben Samuel Sofer (or Schreiber), known to Jews as the Hatam Sofer, or the Chsam Soifer, (after his main work), was one of the leading rabbis of European Judaism in the 1800s. ...
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External links - Short biography of Rabbi Akiva Eger
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