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Yechiel Michel Epstein (24 January 1829 – 24 February 1908), often called "the ''Aruch ha-Shulchan''" (after his main work, Aruch HaShulchan), was a Rabbi and ''posek'' (authority in Jewish law) in Lithuania. His surname is often preceded by ''ha-Levi'', as he descended from a family of Levites. ==Biography== Yechiel Michel Epstein was born into a family of wealthy army contractors for the Czarist Russian army in Babruysk, Russian Empire (presently in Belarus). His wife was the sister of Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the ''Netziv''), who would become the ''rosh yeshiva'' (head) of the Volozhin Yeshiva. (Berlin was later to marry a daughter of Epstein, after being widowed of his first wife.) Epstein studied Torah locally, and was encouraged to do so by the town's rabbi and his parents (the concept of an out-of-town ''yeshiva'' was only slowly gaining ascendancy). After his marriage he received ''semicha'' (rabbinic ordination) and accepted his first position. Epstein became the rabbi of Novozybkov (east of Gomel, now Bryansk region), a town with a large number of Hasidic Jews, mainly adherents of Chabad Lubavitch. Nine years after accepting his position in Novozybkov, in 1863, Epstein was appointed as the rabbi of Navahrudak, where he would serve for 34 years, until his death. Here, he was recognised as a ''posek'' (decisor of Jewish law), and he was to compose most of his writings in Navahrudak. Epstein was involved in many charitable endeavors. He was particularly close to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and wrote extensively on the obligation of all Jews to support the Rabbi Meir Baal Haneis Salant charity that Rabbi Salant founded in Israel in 1860. Epstein died on 22 Adar II 5668 (1908), and is buried in Navahrudak. His son, Rabbi Baruch Epstein, was a bookkeeper by profession but produced a number of scholarly and popular works, most notably the ''Torah Temimah''. 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「Yechiel Michel Epstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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