- Kalonymus Haberkasten
Rabbi Kalonymus Haberkasten was a
Talmudist in sixteenth centuryPoland . He is well known as therosh yeshiva of many great rabbis including RabbiSolomon Luria ; his daughter Lipka married Luria.Rabbi Haberkasten was rosh yeshiva in
Lemberg , and was later the first rabbi of the city ofOstrog ,Volhynia . He left Ostrog to assume the position of rosh yeshiva inBrisk and Luria succeeded him in Ostrog. Haberkasten then went toEretz Yisroel , in about 1560.Haberkasten was also a Kabbalist; and he is known to have made the acquaintance of the great Kabbalists in the Holy Land, including Rabbi
Chaim Vital .External links
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=15&letter=H Haberkasten, Kalman (Kalonymus) in the Jewish Encyclopedia]
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