Talk:Yaakov Lorberbaum

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R' Meir Tzvi is a son in law. R' Asher is Rav Schach's grandson.

I would like to a source to verify the article's take on the Nesivos's popularity (ie, it being criticised in the Ketzos). DavidCharlesII 21:32, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A previous version describes him as an "Orthodox Rabbi" and an opponent of Reform Judaism, which I think distorts history somewhat, because in this part of Prussia, annexed from Poland in 1793, the conflict was with the maskilim, who were not necessarily Reform Jews. Some maskilim later became Reform Jews, but that development takes place years later. The rabbinical conferences which created German Reform Judaism in the 1840s occurred more than ten years after Yaakov Lorberbaum passed away. The previous version was reading history backwards. A previous author appears to have used an introduction to Lorberbaum's commentary on the Haggadah written by Rabbi Greenspan, which is online in English. I've added a reference. Rabbi Greenspan's source appears to be a later version of the Jewish Encyclopedia (not in the public domain), an article by Ephraim Kupfer. --Metzenberg 07:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The link leads to an article on Rabbi Yosef (ben Meir) Teomim, author of Pri Megadim. I'm not sure that he is meant, Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa was a first cousin of Rabbi (Avraham) Yosef (ben Leibush) Teomim's wife. Any further details? Ratzd'mishukribo (talk) 14:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to the Toladot veShorashim blog (well-known rabbinic genealogy blog), Rabbi (Avraham) Yosef Teomim of Bursztyn, Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa's cousin by marriage, is definitely the one intended here. Ratzd'mishukribo (talk) 00:05, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]