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Part II of V commentary to Avot by R. Menahem Nahum Friedmann Admor of Itcani (1879-1933), son of Abraham Joshua Heschel of Adjud, he was brought up in Bohusi and Chortkov. He married Miriam, the daughter of R. Israel of Chortkov, and spent the war years in Vienna. From 1925, he was rabbi in Stefanesti. In addition to rabbinics, he was well versed in philosophy and other secular subjects.
An erudite scholar he was the author of Divrei Menahem on Pentateuch (Cracow, 1912); a commentary, Man on the Ethics of the Fathers (Vienna, 1920); HaHaIom U'Pitrono (Czernowitz, 1925); Al HaEmet VeHaSheker (Kishinev, 1927); Ai HaYofi (1929); and Ai HaAdam (1932).
He supported the settlements in the Holy Land and was one of the founders of the Yishuv Eretz Yisrael. He contributed articles to periodicals, and in his commentary to the Ethics of the Fathers, he describes his visits to Italy and Switzerland. He died in a sanatorium near Vienna. |
