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. He lived in Rossein for about thirty years, mainly in the employ of a rich merchant of the name of Gabrilovitch, but for a part of the time in business for himself. Edelmann was the first to discover the latent talent of the poet

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, for whom he obtained a position as teacher in Gabrilovitch's house. After the death of his wife Edelmann left Rossein and lived for a short time in Tels (1867). Later he was employed successively in

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. In his later days he was again in business for himself, first in

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, and at last settled in Warsaw, the home of his surviving children, where he died. Edelmann was the author of the following works: ''Shoshannim'', containing, besides some treatises on grammar and exegesis, a few poems, and a commentary on Canticles, Königsberg, 1860; ''Ha-Mesillot'', in three parts, of which the first treats of the

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of the Bible and of the changed readings occurring in the Bible quotations of the Talmud;the second is a quasi-critical commentary on Psalms lxviii., xc., and c., and the third contains commentaries and explanations on various difficult passages of the Aggadah, Wilna, 1875; ''Ha-Tirosh'', a commentary on Midrash Rabbah, part 1, Genesis, Warsaw, 1891; and ''Doresh Reshumot'' (a scathing criticism of the liberal views advanced by Weiss in ''Dor''), ib. 1892. He also contributed valuable articles to Fuenn's ''

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'' and Atlas' ''Ha-Kerem''. Edelmann was considered one of the foremost champions of Orthodoxy in contemporary

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* ''Ḥakham ve-Dor'', a biography of S. R. Edelmann by his son Mordecai Isaac, Warsaw, 1885 (Hebrew). * Zeitlin, ''Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Edelmann, Simhah Reuben 1821 births 1892 deaths Volozhin Yeshiva alumni People of the Haskalah