Cohn, Chaia Jenta

  General Notes:

Her birth record just gives her name as Haia. married to Rabbi Dawi d Ber Meyzler (Meisels) on July 1, 1832 in Warsaw. According to the m arriage record Chaia Jenta's age was 15 years and 8 months, and Dawi d Ber was 19. Dawid Ber's father was Rabbi Jakub Leible Meyzler (Meis els) (ABD of Zamosc, Piotrkow and Kulikow), and his mother was Dwoyra , daughter of Lewek. Chaia Jenta died in Lask sometime after her fath er Rabbi Elazar moved to Plock (therefore after 1856).

After Chaia Jenta died her sister Sheindel (Hadas) married Rabbi Dawi d Ber Meisels. But Chaia Jenta was the mother of all of the childre n of Rabbi Dawid Ber Meisels.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Death in week: Wednesday.

• Jewish Birth Date: 11 Elul 5579.

• Birth in Week: Wednesday.

• Yahrtzeit: 16 Iyyar 5616.

Chaia married Rabbi Dawid Berish Dov Meyzler Meisels, son of Rabbi Jakub Leible Meyzler Meisels and Dwoyra, on Jul 1, 1832 in Warszawa, Warszawa, Russian Empire. Poland. (Rabbi Dawid Berish Dov Meyzler Meisels was born in 1814 in Poland and died in 1875.)

  Marriage Notes:

MEISELS, DAVID DOV (1814-1876), Polish rabbi. Meisels was the son of A ryeh Judah Jacob who served as av bet din of Piotrkow and Kilatow. H e was known in his youth as a prodigy (illui). He was appointed av be t din of Dobra at the age of 18 and later served in the same capacit y at Nasielsk. From 1851 until his death he was rabbi of Lask. He wa s regarded as one of the outstanding talmudists of his generation an d gained the deep respect of the ḥasidic rabbi of Gur, Isaac Meir, aut hor of the Ḥiddushei ha-Rim. Meisels' important works, published by hi s sons, are Ahavat David, on the laws of invalid witnesses (1884); Ḥid dushei ha-Radad, novellae on tractate Pesaḥim (1891); She'elot u-Teshu vot ha-Radad, responsa on Oraḥ Ḥayyim and Even ha-Ezer (1903); and Bin yan David, on the Book of Lamentations (1913). Of his sons, jacob, aut hor of the Toledot Ya'akov, succeeded his father as rabbi of Lask; phi nehas elijah served as rabbi of Rakov and ze'ev wolf was a distinguish ed Ḥasid at Tarnow.

bibliography:
P. Zelig, Ir Lask va-Ḥakhameha (1926), 71-75.
[Arthur Cygielman]