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Rabbi Yechezkel Feivel was the [[Magid]] in [[Vilnius]] in the early 19th century and the author of the book Toldos Adam, a hagiography of Rabbi Zalman of Volozhin, the famed brother of [[Chaim of Volozhin]].
Born in [[Palanga]] in 1756, in his youth he was appointed preacher in his native town and, subsequently, in Deretschin. He was thereafter known as "The Magid of Deretschin". At the age of 19 he was an itinerant preacher in the Jewish communities of Galicia, Hungary, and Germany (where he remained for some time in Breslau).
In Vilna he made the acquaintance of the [[Gaon of Vilna]] and through him, of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman of Volozhin. Zalman made a deep impression upon Yechezkel, who wrote his biography (Toldos Adam, in 2 parts (Dyhernfurth, 1801–09); frequently reprinted). This contains details of Zalman's life and his teachings as well as stories current about him, and is a unique work for its period, reflecting the widening of the horizons of Hebrew literature in Lithuania at the end of the 18th century. Yechezkel sharply censures those rabbis who neglect study of the Scriptures as a result of their preoccupation with the Talmud and codes.
In 1811 Yechezkel accepted an invitation to become the Maggid of Vilna, a post in which he served until his death.
Other works by Yechezkel are Musar Haskel (Dyhernfurth, 1790), an exposition of Hilkhot De'ot and Teshuvah of Maimonides, and a commentary Be'urei Maharif (i.e., Morenu ha-Rav Yechezkel Feivel) on the Midrash Rabbah to Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus, which was published in Vilna together with the text in 1878. A third volume of Toldos Adam remains unpublished.
==References==
Ezekiel Feivel Ben Ze'ev Wolf. [[Encyclopedia Judaica]]. 1971
Born in [[Palanga]] in 1756, in his youth he was appointed preacher in his native town and, subsequently, in Deretschin. He was thereafter known as "The Magid of Deretschin". At the age of 19 he was an itinerant preacher in the Jewish communities of Galicia, Hungary, and Germany (where he remained for some time in Breslau).
In Vilna he made the acquaintance of the [[Gaon of Vilna]] and through him, of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman of Volozhin. Zalman made a deep impression upon Yechezkel, who wrote his biography (Toldos Adam, in 2 parts (Dyhernfurth, 1801–09); frequently reprinted). This contains details of Zalman's life and his teachings as well as stories current about him, and is a unique work for its period, reflecting the widening of the horizons of Hebrew literature in Lithuania at the end of the 18th century. Yechezkel sharply censures those rabbis who neglect study of the Scriptures as a result of their preoccupation with the Talmud and codes.
In 1811 Yechezkel accepted an invitation to become the Maggid of Vilna, a post in which he served until his death.
Other works by Yechezkel are Musar Haskel (Dyhernfurth, 1790), an exposition of Hilkhot De'ot and Teshuvah of Maimonides, and a commentary Be'urei Maharif (i.e., Morenu ha-Rav Yechezkel Feivel) on the Midrash Rabbah to Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus, which was published in Vilna together with the text in 1878. A third volume of Toldos Adam remains unpublished.
==References==
Ezekiel Feivel Ben Ze'ev Wolf. [[Encyclopedia Judaica]]. 1971
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