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Asher Zebi of Ostrowo

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19th-century rabbi
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Asher Zebi ben David of Ostrowo was a 19th-century hasidic rabbi who served as Av Beit Din of Korets, Volhynia, and later as "maggid" (preacher) of Ostrowo, in the government of Lomza in Russian Poland. He was a pupil of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch.

Ma'ayn haḤokmah

Asher is the author of "Ma'ayn haḤokmah" (Spring of Wisdom), Korets, 1817, containing kabbalistic homilies on the Torah and other books of the Hebrew Bible. Eliezer Zweifel in his work in defense of Hasidism ("Shalom al-Yisrael," pp. 81, 82) quotes aphorisms from this work; one of which shows Asher's contempt for those who study the laws of nature or secular science.

References

  1. ^ Samuel Joseph Fuenn (1886). הר"ר אשר צבי ב"ר דוד [Rabbi Asher Zebi ben David]. כנסת ישראל (in Hebrew). Warsaw. p. 20. Retrieved Sep 14, 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Louis Ginzberg and Peter Wiernik (1901–1906). "ASHER ẒEBI BEN DAVID". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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    • Sefer Seder ha-Dorot mi-Talmide ha-Besht, p. 30b.
  3. Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob. "Ma'ayn haḤokmah" מעין החכמה. אוצר הספרים (in Hebrew). Vilnius. p. 535. Retrieved Sep 14, 2023.


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