Moses Löb Bloch


Moses Löb Bloch was a Hungarian rabbi and rector at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest.

Life

After studying under Philipp Kohner, a pupil of Ezekiel Landau, district rabbi of Pilsen, Bloch was entrusted to the care of his uncle, Wolf Löw, author of the Sha'are Torah. Löw, who guided the boy's studies for seven years in his house at Gross-Tapolcsány, is often quoted in his nephew's lectures.
On graduating from the gymnasium at Pilsen, he went in 1840 to the University of Prague, and was appointed a rabbi at Wotitz in 1841, when he married Anna Weishut. He was called as rabbi to Hermanmiestec, Bohemia, in 1852, and to Leipnik, Moravia, in 1856, where he remained until October 1877. In that year he was called as professor and rector to the Rabbinical Seminary at Budapest.

Works

Bloch published the following works: "Sha'are Torat ha-Tekanot", 4 vols., Vienna and Cracow, 1879–1902, 3 vols., Budapest, 1902; 11 Das Mosaisch-Talmudische Polizeirecht", Budapest, 1879; "Die Ethik in der Halacha", Leipsic, 1886; "Das Mosaisch-Talmudische Erbrecht" ; "Sefer Sha'are Teshubot Maharam", Berlin, 1891 ; "Der Vertrag nach Mosaisch-Talmudischem Rechte", Budapest, 1893; "Das Mosaisch-Talmudische Besitzrecht".
The works published in the reports of the Landes-Rabbinerschule have all appeared also in the Hungarian language.

Family

Among his ancestors were Isaac, rabbi at Cracow; the grandson of the latter,
Phinehas Selig, author of the "'Aṭeret Paz"; and the latter's son, Aryeh Löw, a well-known Talmudist, who was the father of Eleazar Löw, the author of "Shemen Roḳeaḥ."