Eliakim Getzel ben Judah ha-Milzahgi [note 1] ( Hebrew: אליקים גצל בן יהודה המילזאהגי; c. 1780, Smiela – 17 July 1854, Brody), also known by the acronym Rabiyah (ראבי״ה), was a Polish-born Talmudist.
Eliakim Getzel ha-Milzahgi was born in the Polish town of Smiela into a prominent rabbinical family that included scholars Ephraim Zalman Margolioth and Jacob of Lissa. [3] He settled in Galicia, where he studied with Kabbalist Israel Ḥarif of Satanov . [3] He worked as the rabbi of a small town, and later as a teacher and merchant in Lemberg and Brody, [3] all while pursuing Jewish scholarship under the patronage of Berish Blumenfeld. [4]
Ha-Milzahgi wrote primarily about Talmud and Kabbalah. The only published book of his was Sefer Rabiyah (Ofen, 1837), a criticism of Leopold Zunz's Die gottesdienstlichen Vorträgeder Juden: historisch entwickelt and of Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport's biography of Eleazar ben Kalir. The work contains a critique of gematria, and a dissertation on Kabbalistic literature. [5]
He also wrote unpublished commentaries on the Zohar, the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, and the Pesikta de-Rav Kahana. [4] He published in the Jewish press a denunciation of the alleged forgeries of Abraham Firkovich, and, in his essay Mirkevet Esh, he argued in favour of permitting train travel on the Sabbath. [4]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard (1905). "Samiler (Smieler), A. G. (Eliakim Götzel; known also as Mehlsack)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 684.
Eliakim Getzel ben Judah ha-Milzahgi [note 1] ( Hebrew: אליקים גצל בן יהודה המילזאהגי; c. 1780, Smiela – 17 July 1854, Brody), also known by the acronym Rabiyah (ראבי״ה), was a Polish-born Talmudist.
Eliakim Getzel ha-Milzahgi was born in the Polish town of Smiela into a prominent rabbinical family that included scholars Ephraim Zalman Margolioth and Jacob of Lissa. [3] He settled in Galicia, where he studied with Kabbalist Israel Ḥarif of Satanov . [3] He worked as the rabbi of a small town, and later as a teacher and merchant in Lemberg and Brody, [3] all while pursuing Jewish scholarship under the patronage of Berish Blumenfeld. [4]
Ha-Milzahgi wrote primarily about Talmud and Kabbalah. The only published book of his was Sefer Rabiyah (Ofen, 1837), a criticism of Leopold Zunz's Die gottesdienstlichen Vorträgeder Juden: historisch entwickelt and of Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport's biography of Eleazar ben Kalir. The work contains a critique of gematria, and a dissertation on Kabbalistic literature. [5]
He also wrote unpublished commentaries on the Zohar, the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, and the Pesikta de-Rav Kahana. [4] He published in the Jewish press a denunciation of the alleged forgeries of Abraham Firkovich, and, in his essay Mirkevet Esh, he argued in favour of permitting train travel on the Sabbath. [4]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard (1905). "Samiler (Smieler), A. G. (Eliakim Götzel; known also as Mehlsack)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 684.