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When he was ten years old, Zvi Hirsch Karo, the author of Neta" Sha"ashu"im, chose him as a son-in-law.
When he was ten years old, Zvi Hirsch Karo, the author of Neta" Sha"ashu"im, chose him as a son-in-law.
He began studying Talmud as a boy. At the age of twenty, he became the rabbi at Yazlovets. The chief event of his life was the struggle awakened in him by the opposition between the Talmud and the Cabala.
The latter, however, influenced him to take up the study of the Cabala.
But in trying to reconcile these new views—so utterly antagonistic to those of the extreme Talmudists, which he himself had hitherto held—he nearly became insane. Buczacz adopted the Hasidic mode of living.
But in his decision of halakic questions was guided, not by kabalistic, but by purely Talmudic, principles. Buczacz is the author of the following works:
Da"at Kedoshim, to the Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De"ah, Lemberg, 1870.
2d educated, ib. 1879;
Dibre Abot, commentary on Pirkei Avoth, ib.
1879;
Eshel Avraham, annotations to the Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, ib. 1885;
Birkat David, cabalistic-haggadic commentary on Genesis, Zolkiev (date 1766, given on title-page, wrong);
Machazeh Abraham, commentary on the Pentateuch, and Chozeh David, on the other Biblical books, Lemberg, 1871;
Amarot Tehorot, on the purification of Niddah and vessels, in Yiddish, ib. 1878;
Tefillah le-David, on benediction and prayer, ib.
1886.
Kolomea, 1887;
Tehillah le-David, on the Psalms, ib.