 Abt 1820 - 1891 (~ 71 years)
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| Name |
Mordechai Gimple Jaffe |
| Prefix |
Rabbi |
| Born |
Abt 1820 |
Utena, Lithuania  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Biography |
Jaffe, Morcecai-Gimpel (1820-1891), rabbi, member of the Hibbat Zion movement. Born in Utyana, Kovno district, Jaffe studied at the Volozhin yeshivah and became well known for his religious scholarship and his Hebrew and general education, the latter acquired by his own efforts. When Moses Montefiore visited Russia in 1846, Jaffe headed a delegation to present him with a memorandum on the economic situation of the Jews of Derechin, where Jaffe served as rabbi. In the memorandum he proposed that Montefiore try to influence the Russian government to agree to the following suggestions: allotting land to Jews for farming, permitting Jews to acquire land and to settle in towns outside the Pale of Settlement, rescinding the expulsion order to Jews settled in villages among Christian peasants, restoring the right of Jews to settle their disputes in Jewish courts, etc.
In 1855, Jaffe was appointed rabbi in the small town of Ruzhany in the Grodno district, and he remained at his post there for over 30 years. He opposed any ideas of religious reform, such as those of Moses Leib Lilienblum. Jaffe supported the activities of the Hevrat Yishuv Erez Israel (Central Committee for Jewish Colonization in Palestine), founded by Zevi Hirsch Kalischer, and established a society of this kind in his community. He also joined the Hibbat Zion movement upon its establishment. When Baron Edmond de Rothschild, urged by Samuel Mohilewer, agreed to found an agricultural settlement in Erez Israel with farmers from Russia, Jaffe aided in the aliyah of Jewish farmers from a village near Ruzhany.
At the end of 1888, he went to Erez Israel, and after a few months in Jerusalem settled in Yehud, near Petah Tikvah, and headed a yeshivah with eight students. During the shemittah controversy (1889), Jaffe demanded strict compliance with the laws of the Torah. Of his numerous writings, only his comments to the Midrash on Psalms appeared in his lifetime (1865). After his death, his son published some of his works, including the book Zikhronot Mordekhai (1923), in which his letters, memoranda, precepts to his sons, and his will were incorporated. [1] |
| Immigration |
1888 |
Jerusalem, Israel |
| Residence |
1888-1891 |
Yehud, Israel |
| Hebrew Death |
25 Che 5652 |
| Occupation |
Rav of Yehud |
| Residence |
Utena, Lithuania |
| Died |
26 Nov 1891 |
Yehud, Israel |
| Buried |
Petach Tikva, Israel |
| Person ID |
I10353 |
Blank Family |
| Last Modified |
18 Nov 2010 |
| Father |
Rabbi Dov Ber Jaffe, b. 1790, Turitz, Belarus , d. 20 Jan 1829, Vilnius, Lithuania (Age 39 years) |
| Mother |
Ruchama Jaffe Turitzer, b. 1783, Turitz, Belarus , d. 1828 (Age 45 years) |
| Family ID |
F7336 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Hinda Chalutz, b. Otian, Lithuania , d. Yes - date unknown, Ruzhinoi, Poland |
| Children |
| | 1. Rabbi Yosef Jaffe |
| | 2. Dov Ber Jaffe, b. 1841, d. 18 Sep 1902, Grodno, Belarus (Age 61 years) |
| | 3. Yechezkel Jaffe, b. 1852, Vilkoriski, Poland , d. Yes - date unknown |
| | 4. Ruchama Jaffe, b. Yes - date unknown, d. Yes - date unknown |
| | 5. Rabbi Yaakov Jaffe Rabinovitch, b. Yes - date unknown, d. Yes - date unknown, Riga, Latvia |
| | 6. Rivka Jaffe, b. Ruzhinoi, Lithuania , d. 8 Jan 1908, Jerusalem, Israel |
| | 7. Yocheved Jaffe, b. Yes - date unknown, Lithuania , d. Yes - date unknown, Jerusalem, Israel |
| | 8. Eliyahu Jaffe, b. Yes - date unknown, Slonim, Belarus , d. Yes - date unknown, Slonim, Belarus |
| | 9. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Jaffe, b. Brest-Litovsk, Belarus , d. 1921, Brest-Litovsk, Belarus |
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| Last Modified |
18 Nov 2010 |
| Family ID |
F7338 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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