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16 Facts About Jacob Ettlinger

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Jacob Ettlinger was an Ashkenazi rabbi and author, and one of the leaders of Orthodox Judaism.

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Jacob Ettlinger is sometimes referred to as the Aruch la-Ner, after his best-known publication.

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Jacob Ettlinger received his early education from his father Aaron, who was Klausrabbiner in Karlsruhe.

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Jacob Ettlinger then went to study under the Rabbi of Karlsruhe, Rabbi Asher Wallerstein, the son of the famed Shaagas Aryeh.

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Jacob Ettlinger rounded off his Talmudical education in the yeshiva of Abraham Bing in Wurzburg, one of the most significant Torah centers in Germany.

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Jacob Ettlinger was thus among the earliest German rabbis who possessed academic training.

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The fact that Jacob Ettlinger stayed fervently Orthodox, even though he attended university, was considered by most to be an anomaly.

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Jacob Ettlinger's yeshiva was attended by a great many students preparing for the ministry, and many of them became leaders of Orthodoxy.

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Jacob Ettlinger was the last German rabbi who acted as civil judge.

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Jacob Ettlinger further asked that the four capital punishments be performed symbolically on his body.

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Jacob Ettlinger became one of the strongest opponents of the early Reform Judaism movement, and headed a protest of 173 rabbis against the Brunswick Conference of 1844.

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At a school examination a teacher said that Joseph's brothers had acted in an unbrotherly fashion, whereupon Jacob Ettlinger rebuked him indignantly for speaking ill of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

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Jacob Ettlinger expressed a positive view towards Kabbalah, as can be judged from his first work, Bikkurei Yaakov.

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Jacob Ettlinger posited that since the Mishna states that for a sacrifice to be valid it must be offered with intent to generate reiach, any sacrifice offered during the period of exile will be automatically invalidated, since the Torah clearly states that God declared he would no longer "inhale" the "scent" of the offerings in the epoch of exile, thus rendering any intent of generating reiach void and farcical.

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In 1859, Jacob Ettlinger was consulted about an incident where a man, claiming to be the prophet Elijah and acting on the word of God, defiled a married woman.

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Jacob Ettlinger was asked to determine whether the woman had acquired the status of an unfaithful wife, rendering her forbidden to her husband.