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Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs) with the commentary Oteh Or by R. Jehiel ben Aaron Heller. The title page states his position as av bet din in Plungian and notes that he is the author of the responsa Ammudei Or. There is an introduction from R. Heller followed by a preface on Shir ha-Shirim. The text is comprised of Shir ha-Shirim in vocalized Hebrew on the top of the page with the commentary, Oteh Or, in rabbinic type, below. The volume concludes with verse in Aramaic, hatimat ha-Sefer, and errata.
R. Jehiel ben Aaron Heller, (1814–1863) a descendant of Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, was a Lithuanian author and preacher. R. Heller was successively rabbi at Glusk (1836-43), Volkovisk (1843-54), Suwalki, and Plungian, where he remained until his death. He was a noted preacher, and delivered sermons in pure German on various notable occasions. Like his brother Joshua, R. Heller was a disciple of R. Israel Salanter to whose journal, Tevunah, he contributed. He became a popular preacher of the Musar movement, on various occasions delivering his sermons in German. His published works are: Shenei Perakim, or Kevod Melekh (St. Petersburg, 1852), "published by order of the Russian government" and translated into German by Leon Mandelstamm, dealing with the duty of loyalty to the ruler and obedience to the laws of the country, as laid down in the Bible and Talmud; Ammudei Or (1855), responsa on the all four parts of the Shulhan Arukh, in his introduction to which R. Heller deplores the general neglect of Talmud study and expresses his apprehension of the attacks on Jewish beliefs by the protagonists of the Haskalah; Kinhah le-David, a funeral sermon on R. David Lurie (Bichover), published as an appendix to the latter’s Kadmut Sefer ha-Zohar (1856), and Or Yesharim (1857), a commentary on the Haggadah of Passover. |
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EJ; Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 522.; JE; Steinschneider, Ir Wilna, pp. 91, 99, 100, 191; Vin Memel 4. |
