Aharon Simeon Spira
Aharon Simeon Spira
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Birth
15991599 Gregorian
1598 Julian
5359 Hebrew -
Death
16791679 Gregorian
1678 Julian
5439 Hebrew Prague (Praha, Praga), Czech Republic -
Age
80
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rabbi at Frankfort, Lemberg, Brez in Lithuania, Lublin, Cracow, Vienna, Prague (1640), and also rabbi of Bohemia; born 1599; died Dec. 3, 1679, at Prague. He led an ascetic life, and collected many pupils about him. He wrote "Moreh Yeḥezḳiel Ḳaṭon" (Prague, 1695), penitential prayers ("seliḥot") on the sufferings of the Jewish community of Prague when that city was besieged by the Swedes in 1648.
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Aharon Simeon Spira
(15991599 Gregorian
1598 Julian
5359 Hebrew - 16791679 Gregorian
1678 Julian
5439 Hebrew, Prague)
(about 1560about 1560 Gregorian
about 1560 Julian
about 5320 Hebrew - October 12, 1630October 12, 1630 Gregorian
October 2, 1630 Julian
Cheshvan 6, 5391 Hebrew, Prague)
(16401640 Gregorian
1639 Julian
5400 Hebrew, Prague - 17151715 Gregorian
1714 Julian
5475 Hebrew, Prague)
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