Solomon Aaron Wertheimer
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Rabbi Solomon Aaron Wertheimer, was a Hungarian rabbi and scholar; born at Bösing 18 November 1866. Although he authored many works, today, he his best known for his midrashic scholarship, his work is one of the two standard midrash compilations from the period (the other is Adolph Jellinek's Bet Ha-Midrasch). In 1871 he went with his parents to Jerusalem, where he was educated; and in 1890 he resided at Cairo, Egypt, where he collected ancient Jewish manuscripts. He is the author of the following works: Ebel Mosheh (1885), sermon delivered on the death of Sir Moses Montefiore; Ḥiddushe Rabbi Nissim (1888); Pirḳe Hekalot and Ẓawwa'at Naftali (1889); Darke shel Torah (1891), guide to the theory of the Talmud and to the fundamental principles of the Halakah and Haggadah; Ḥatam Sofer (1891), Talmudic studies, with notes; Batte Midrashot (4 parts, 1893-97), a collection of short midrashim from manuscripts, with glosses, notes, and introduction; Ginze Yerushalayim (3 parts, 1896-1902), a collection of scientific, literary, and poetic treatises, from rare manuscripts, with notes and introduction; Midrash Ḥaserot wi-Yeterot (1898), from the Parma manuscript, collated with three Egyptian manuscripts; Leshon Ḥasidim (1898), notes and introduction to the Sefer Ḥasidim; Ḳohelet Shelomoh (1899), a collection of geonic responsa, with notes and introduction, and with Hebrew translations of the Arabic responsa; 'Abodat Ḥaleb (1902), a commentary on the Jewish prayers; and Leket Midrashim (1903). Today, his midrashim are normally printed in a combined two volume set edited by his grandson A. J. Wertheimer. Also entitled Batei Midrashot (Jerusalem: 1967), the work brings together midrashim from Batei Midrashot and Leket Midrash with notes and commentary. Rabbi Wertheimer died in 1935.
==References== in the not so recent past more of his seforim have been published included in this is ohr hatargum a perush on targum onkelos, shelot shlomo, and mishnas shlomo a perush on mishnayos, as well as a perush on the chida's midbar kedemos
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
