Meir Arik
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Meir Arik | |
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 Meir Arik | |
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| Born | 1855 |
| Died | 1925 |
| Nationality | Galician Jewish |
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| Religion | Judaism |
Rabbi Meir Arik (1855–1925) was a famous Galician Torah scholar.
Arik was a talmid of the "Kochav MiYaakov," R. Yaakov Weidenfeld. He was so highly respected by the leading Rabbis of his generation that following the death of Rabbi Schwadron, the Belzer Rav directed all halakhic questions to Rabbi Arik. Rabbi Arik was the posek for the Galician town of Buchach. However, during World War I, Arik fled to the Austrian city of Vienna. Upon his return to Galicia after the war, Arik assumed the post of Chief Rabbi of Tarnów.
In addition to his insights on various tractates of both the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud and his halakhic responsa, he also arranged and published a volume with the title of 'Chidushei HaRaMaL' (Kolomye 1890).
In 1912, he was appointed rabbi of Buchach, but with the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914, he fled to Vienna, and on his way he spent six months in Karoli in the apartment of the city's rabbi, Rabbi Shaul Barach. In his escape, he lost five large volumes of questions and answers, the loss of which he deeply regretted. When he returned in 1922 in the summer to Galicia, he was appointed rabbi in Tarnov (Tarna).
