Rabbi Abraham Bing was a German rabbi and Talmudist, who was born in 1752 at Frankfort-on-the-Main. He died in 1841 at Würzburg, Bavaria, where he had been chief rabbi until his resignation at the beginning of 1839. Before officiating at Würzburg, he was rabbi at Heidingsfeld, Bavaria.
Rabbi Bing was a pupil of Nathan Adler of Frankfort, and belonged to the old orthodox school which did not allow innovations in religious matters. A decided opponent of the reform movement, he declared it to be the duty of every orthodox Jew to refuse to go to the temples of the reformers. He was head of a large yeshivah (Talmudic college) and had a great reputation as a Talmudic scholar.
Only this book has been printed out of his writings. It consists of novellae and suggestions on the Shulḥan Aruch, Orach Chayyim, and was edited by lsaac Bamberger. It starts with a haskomoh (approbation) from Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spector.
Several students from his yeshivah became German rabbis, and there are some British connections. In particular, one of the students was Nathan Marcus Adler, who became Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom.
Another important pupil was Rabbi Isaac Bernays, who became a rabbi in Hamburg and teacher of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer. Isaac Bernays’ grand-daughter married Sigmund Freud. Isaac Bernays younger brother was Professor Adolphus Bernays, who became the first professor of German, in 1831, at Kings College in London. Adolphus Bernays’ great-grandson was Robert Bernays, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Bristol North, who died in a plane crash in 1945.
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