Shlomo Kluger

Solomon ben Judah Aaron Kluger (1783–June 9, 1869) ( _he. שלמה קלוגר), born at Komarow, Russian Poland, was chief dayyan and preacher of Brody, Galicia. He was successively rabbi at Rawa (Russian Poland), Kulikow (Galicia), and Józefów (Lublin), preacher at Brody, and rabbi at Brezany (Galicia) and, again, at Brody (where he held the offices of dayyan and preacher for more than fifty years). He died at Brody on June 9, 1869.

Works

During his long life Kluger wrote a great number of works—one hundred and sixty volumes. He wrote on all the branches of rabbinical literature as well as on Biblical and Talmudic exegesis, but only the following of his writings have been published (as of 1906):
* "Sefer Ha-Chayim" (Zolkiev, 1825), novellæ on "Shulchan Aruch", "Orach Chayyim" (some of his novellæ on the section "Even ha-Ezer" were published later under the title "Hokhmat Shlomoh"; novellae on the other parts of the Shulchan Aruch have not been published)
* "Mei Niddah" (ib. 1834), halachic and haggadic novellæ on Niddah
* "En Dim'ah" (part 1; ib. 1834), funeral sermon on the death of Ephraim Solomon Margaliot
* "Ebel Yaḥid" (Warsaw, 1836), funeral oration on Menahem Manis Mordecai Teomim
* "Nidre Zerizin" (Zolkiev, 1839), novellæ on Nedarim
* "Ebel Mosheh" (with "En Dim'ah," part 2; Warsaw, 1843), funeral orations on Moses Schreiber (Sofer) and Jacob Lissa (available as [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/6116 a free download] from HebrewBooks.org)
* "Shenot Ḥayyim" (Lemberg, 1855; the first part contains responsa on "Shulchan Aruch", "Oraḥ Ḥayyim"; the second, responsa and novellæ for scribes)
* "Sefer Setam" (ib. 1856), laws for scribes
* "Moda'a le-Bet Yisrael" (Breslau, 1859), responsa, chiefly of other rabbis, concerning maẓẓot made by machine
* "Ṭub Ṭa'am wa-Da'at" (Lemberg, 1860; the first part contains the laws of ṭerefah; the second, entitled "Ḳin'at Soferim," contains laws for scribes and various laws of the "Yoreh De'ah")
* "Ḥiddushe Anshe Shem" (Leipsic, 1860), novellæ on "Shulchan Aruch", "Even ha-'Ezer"
* "Ma'aseh Yede Yoẓer" (Lemberg, 1863), commentary on the Pesaḥ Haggadah
* "Sefer 'Abodat 'Abodah" (Zolkiev, 1865), novellæ on Abodah Zarah
* Kluger's taḳḳanot concerning slaughtering are printed in Ganzfried's "Torat Zebaḥ" (Lemberg, 1848), and two of his responsa in David Solomon Eybeschütz's "Ne'ot Deshe" (ib. 1861).

Students

* Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi)
* Dovid Meir Frisch

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

*Ha-Maggid, xiii., No. 25;
*E. Kohn, Ḳin'at Soferim, pp. 108a-109b, Lemberg, 1892;
*Strelisker, in Ha-Maggid, xiii., No. 29;
*Samuel van Straalen, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 125;
*Joseph Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. pp. 414-415;
*Judah Aaron Kluger, Toledot Shelomoh, Lemberg, 1898.

References

*JewishEncyclopedia