(Fwd) Re: [ravsig] Connecting to the TaZ and R' Yitzhak Segal

From: barmag@netvision.net.il [mailto:barmag@netvision.net.il]
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 7:27 AM
To: Reuven Chaim Klein
Subject: RE: (Fwd) Re: [ravsig] Connecting to the TaZ and R' Yitzhak Segal

> I think I was a little unclear on my original message, so let me try

> to fix it up better.

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.

> First of all, Rabbi Binyamin Eliezer

> Ungar-Auerbach was not my grandfather, he was rather my

> gggg-grandfather.

The two surnames are probably taken from two different ancestors, and as I understand, you don't know much about this Auerbach family.

> I was trying to say that his father-in-law, Rabbi

> Yaakov HaLevi was a ABD in Krakow, not that he was.The GED file on my

> site is very outdated and hasn't been fixed for over a year. Reb

> Yaakov HaLevi was a direct male descendant of the TaZ (they were both

> Leviim), although I can't trace that exact lineage, which is what I am

> trying to do. Perhaps your book can help me. Can you please check if

> it mentioned this ABD of Krakow, Reb Ya'akov Litzas HaLevi, who was

> the brother of Rav Yosef Charif-Lichtig and the son of Reb Tzvi HaLevi

> (and again all these Leviim are direct male descendents of the TaZ)

> and their exact lineage to the TaZ?

Although the book mentions a Rabbi Yakov Charif ABD Leshnov and a Rabbi Chaim Yakov Halevi Charif ABD Polnoe, there is no mention of a "R' Yakov Yitzas Halevi the son of Tzvi Halevi".

> Would you be willing to send me

> the information tracing the TaZ and BACH all the way to Dovid

> HaMelech, it would be very interesting for me.

I think it would be worthwhile for you to get a copy of this book which concentrates on the lineage of the family with its more than 700 ancestors directly linked to Dovid Hamelech. This hard-cover books contains 200 pages of our family genealogy and is replete with charts, yahrtzeits and a concise easy to follow index.

Gut Shabbos & Kol Tuv

MGriffel

> From: barmag@netvision.net.il [mailto:barmag@netvision.net.il]

> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 4:43 AM

> To: Reuven Chaim Klein

> Subject: RE: (Fwd) Re: [ravsig] Connecting to the TaZ and R' Yitzhak

> Segal

>

>

> > Rabbi Binyamin Eliezer Ungar-Auerbach is the oldest relative I can

> > trace up my direct male line. All I know was that he lived in Krakow

> > and was the son-in-law of the Rosh Beis Din of Krakow, Rabbi Ya'akov

> > HaLevi (formerly of Wolbrom). R' Ya'akov passed away on 10 October

> > 1828.

>

> Although your grandfather used both names Unger & Auerbach, I assume

> he was probably not the son of an Auerbach but of an Unger and/or

> Unger-Auerbach. I don't recall an Av Beis Din in Krakow by the name of

> Auerbach during my research. The Auerbach ancestor I am a descendant

> from is the famous Rabbi Nachman Zev Auerbach ABD Monasterzyska

> (1789-1855), son of Rabbi David Tzvi ABD Kremenetz and Mogilev

> (1743-1808), son of Rabbi Arye Leibish Auerbach ABD Stanislav

> (1710-1749).

>

> I wanted to study your family tree and your connection to the Taz, so

> I downloaded your gedcom file. Apparently, there is no name on your

> tree actually connected to the Taz. Is your ancestor, Tzvi Hirsch

> Litzas Halevi, a descendant?

>

> BTW, the surname of the Taz's mother-in-law, Baila, is not "Fum". Her

> father, Rabbi Avraham Hertzkes "was a Fum (or rather Pum)

> (peh-vov-mem) in Lwow", which stands for "Parness uManhig". He was the

> son of Rabbi Naftali Hertz (Rosh Mesivta in Lwow), hence his surname,

> Hertzkes.

>

> After 18 years of research, we recently published a family genealogy

> book detailing in graphic description the lineage of the family with

> its more than 700 ancestors directly linked to King David. As a

> descendant of the Taz, the Bach and the Auerbachs, their genealogy

> tree is part of this book.

>

> MGriffel

> Jerusalem

>