Meisels, Rabbi Dawid Berish Dov Meyzler

  General Notes:

He was the Av Beis Din of Lask for twenty five years, author of Chidus hei HaRaDaD, Warsaw, 1891, Ahavat David, responsa HaRaDaD, Ohr David , Rei'ach Duda'im and Binyan David. He was the son of Rabbi Aryey Jud ah Jacob Meisels, the Av Beis Din of Zamosc and Piotrkow.

Rabbi married Chaia Jenta Cohn, daughter of MAHARACH Rabbi Eleazar Leyzer Wolf (HaKohan) Cohn and Breindel Lorbeerbaum, on Jul 1, 1832 in Warszawa, Warszawa, Russian Empire. Poland. (Chaia Jenta Cohn was born on Sep 1, 1819 and died on May 21, 1856 in Lask, Lask, Piotrków, Russian Empire, Poland.)

  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]

Rabbi next married Sheindel Hadas Cohn, daughter of MAHARACH Rabbi Eleazar Leyzer Wolf (HaKohan) Cohn and Breindel Lorbeerbaum. (Sheindel Hadas Cohn died on Feb 24, 1893 in Warszawa, Warszawa, Russian Empire. Poland and was buried in Warsaw Jewish Cemetery sector 24, row 4, number 40.)