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Rabbi Dov Ber ben Avraham of Mezeritch ((ヘブライ語:דֹּב בֶּר מִמֶּזְרִיטְשְׁ)) (died December 1772 OS), also known as the ''Maggid of Mezritch'', was a disciple of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, and was chosen as his successor to lead the early movement. Rabbi Dov Ber is regarded as the first systematic exponent of the mystical philosophy underlying the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, and through his teaching and leadership, the main architect of the movement.〔see Kaufmann Kohler & Louis Ginzberg. ("Baer (Dob) of Meseritz" ), ''Jewish Encyclopedia'', retrieved May 20, 2006〕 He established his base in Mezhirichi (in Wołyń), which moved the centre of Hasidism from the Baal Shem Tov's Medzhybizh (in Podolia), where he focused his attention on raising a close circle of great disciples to spread the movement. After his death, avoiding the unified leadership of the first two generations, this third generation of leadership took their different interpretations and disseminated across appointed regions of Eastern Europe. Under the inspiration of their teacher, this rapidly spread Hasidism beyond the Ukraine, to Poland, Galicia and Russia. His teachings appear in ''Magid Devarav L'Yaakov'', ''Or Torah'', ''Likutim Yekarim'', ''Or Ha'emet'', ''Kitvei Kodesh'', ''Shemuah Tovah'', and in the works authored by his disciples. His inner circle of disciples, known as the ''Chevraia Kadisha'' ("Holy Brotherhood"), included his son Rabbi Avraham HaMalach (The Angel), Rabbi Nachum of Czernobyl, Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, Rabbi Zusha of Hanipol, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, Rabbi Aharon (HaGadol) of Karlin, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke of Nikolsburg and Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. ==Name== The most common transliterations are ''DovBer'' or ''Dov Ber''; rarely used forms are ''Dob Baer'' or ''Dobh Baer'' which often depend on the region in Eastern Europe where Jews resided and hence the influence of the local Yiddish dialects. "Dov" literally means "bear" in Hebrew and "Ber" means the same thing (i.e. "bear") in Yiddish, a type of "double-barrelled name" used by Jews when giving a name of an animal to a child whereby both the Hebrew and Yiddish versions of the name are combined into one. He was known as the ''Maggid'' — "Preacher" or literally "Sayer," one who preaches and admonishes to go in God's ways — of Mezritsh, and near the end of his life the ''Maggid'' of the town of Rovne where he was buried. The German form ''Meseritz'' is sometimes used instead of ''Mezeritch''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dov Ber of Mezeritch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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