Abraham David
ben Asher Anshel Wahrman
(1770 at Nadworna–1840 at Buczacz) (Hebrew: אברהם
דוד מבוטשאטש), was a Galician Talmudist. He began studying Talmud as a boy. When he
was ten years old, Zvi Hirsch Karo, the author of Neta' Sha'ashu'im, chose him
as a son-in-law. At the age of twenty, he became the rabbi at Yazlovets (Polish: Jazłowiec). In the Jewish Encyclopedia, Louis
Ginzberg and A. Pelginsky dramatically recount his encounter with Hasidism: The chief event of
his life was the struggle awakened in him by the opposition between the Talmud
and the Cabala. Unacquainted with the tendencies and modes of life of the Hasidim,
Buczacz did not believe in the miracles of their rabbis; and his wife and
friends had great difficulty in persuading him to take his sick son to a
Hasidic rabbi, Levi Isaac of Berdychev. The latter, however, influenced
him to take up the study of the Cabala; but in trying to reconcile these new
views—so utterly antagonistic to those of the extreme Talmudists, which he
himself had hitherto held—he nearly became insane. The Hasidic rabbi Levi Isaac
of Berdychev helped him through this struggle and won him over, to the great
joy of the Hasidim, who feared his wide Talmudic learning. Buczacz adopted the
Hasidic mode of living; but in his decision of halachic questions was
guided, not by kabalistic, but by purely Talmudic, principles. In 1813 he
succeeded his late father-in-law as rabbi of Buczacz, and remained in office
until his death. Buczacz is the
author of the following works: References This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Louis Ginzberg and A. Peiginsky
(1901–1906). "Buczacz, Abraham David b. Asher Anshel". Jewish
Encyclopedia. The article cites the following source: E.
Z. Shmerler, Toledot ha-RABD, Lemberg,
1890. Abraham David ben Asher Anshel Buczacz
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