Yechezkel Feivel
Rabbi Yechezkel Feivel (1755–1833) was the Maggid in Vilnius in the early 19th century and the author of several books, including Toldos Adam, a hagiography of Rabbi Zalman of Vilna, the famed brother of Chaim of Volozhin.[1]
It has been demonstrated that large parts of Toldos Adam are lifted verbatim from the works of leading Maskilim such as Moses Mendelssohn and Naphtali Hirz Wessely, though not attributed to them.[2] This was presumably an attempt to sneak those ideas into the broader Jewish community who rejected the Haskalah.
Feivel was criticized by various scholars, including Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes, for plagiarization and falsifying sources.[3][4]
Feivel was the Maggid of Vilna from 1811 until his death.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Ezekiel Feivel ben Ze'ev Wolf - Dictionary definition of Ezekiel Feivel ben Ze'ev Wolf | Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ^ Breuer, Edward. The Haskalah in Vilna: R. Yehezkel Feivel's "Toldot Adam". In: Torah u-Madda Journal, 7 (1997) 15-40.
- ^ http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=33319&st=%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA+%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9D&pgnum=34&hilite=
- ^ See Sefer Halikutim, in Rambam Shoftim (Shabse Frankel edition),chapter eight, law eleven
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