Elijah Schik (1795 - September 2, 1876) also known as Reb Alinkah or the Ayn Eliyah was a 19th-century Misngadic

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n rabbi.

Biography

Reb Alinkah was born in the town of

Vasilishki Vasilishki ( be, Васілішкі, russian: Василишки, pl, Wasiliszki, yi, װאַסילישאָק ''Vasilishok'', lt, Vosyliškės) is an urban settlement in Shchuchyn District, Grodno Region, Belarus, the administrative center of Va ...

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around 1795. His father R. Benjamin was a prominent rabbi and a descendant of R. Hanoch Heinich Schick of

Shklov Shklow ( be, Шклоў, ; Škłoŭ; russian: link=no, Шклов, ''Shklov''; yi, שקלאָוו, ''Shklov'', lt, Šklovas, pl, Szkłów) is a town in Mogilev Region, Belarus, located north of Mogilev on the Dnieper river. It has a railway s ...

. The Hungarian rabbi R. Moshe Schick was a cousin of Reb Alinkah. Reb Alinkah was orphaned at only three months old after his father was killed in a

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. He was a pupil of Benjamin, chief rabbi of Grodno. As rabbi he officiated in

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, where he ultimately became engrossed in a controversy with the city's

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rabbi, R. Benjamin of Lida in 1854, later relocating to

Kobrin Kobryn ( be, Кобрын; russian: Кобрин; pl, Kobryń; lt, Kobrynas; uk, Кобринь, Kobryn'; yi, קאָברין) is a city in the Brest Region of Belarus and the center of the Kobryn District. The city is located in the southwest ...

. On the holy days of Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur he acted as cantor. He was one of the preachers whose sermons always attracted large audiences. Schick was the author of "'Ayn Eliyahu," a commentary on Jacob Ḥabib's "'En Ya'aḳob," published with the Vina edition of that work.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schik, Elijah 1795 births 1876 deaths 19th-century Lithuanian rabbis People from Vilnius Voivodeship