Rabbi Hirschel Ben Arye Löb Levin (also known as Hart Lyon and Hirshel Löbel; 1721 – 26 August 1800) was
Chief Rabbi of
Great Britain and of
Berlin, and
Rabbi of
Halberstadt and
Mannheim, known as a scholarly Talmudist.
His glosses on the
Talmud appear in the
Vilna edition under the name of Rabbi Tsvi Hersh Berlin. His son, Rabbi
Solomon Hirschell was also Chief Rabbi of the British German and Polish Jewish community, and the first of the British empire.[2] His other son,
Saul Berlin, was a Talmudist and notorious forger of the Besamim Rosh.[3]
^The Jews of Georgian England, 1714–1830 Todd M. Endelman – 1999 "In 1801, when the Ashkenazi synagogues of London were discussing the hiring of a new Chief Rabbi, the privileged members of the Hambro ... Hirschell's father, Hirschel Levin, the former Chief Rabbi in London, was then Rabbi of Berlin."
^Adele Berlin, Maxine Grossman – The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion 2011 – Page 123 "BERLIN, SHA'UL BEN TSEVI HIRSCH (1740–1794), German rabbi and Haskalah sympathizer. Son of the chief rabbi of Berlin, Hirschel Levin, he was ordained rabbi at the age of twenty by several distinguished authorities."