Kalonymus / Klonimus Haberkasten (ca. 1500 – )== Eishes Yaakov >> Lipka Haberkasten (ca. 1520 – 1572) == Rabbi Solomon Shlomo Luria MaHaRSHaL ( 1510 – 1573) >> Valentina Luria (1535 – 1595) == Rabbi Ephraim Fishel Ashkenazi (ca. 1530 – ca. 1595) >> Rabbi Naftali Zvi Hirsch, Nassi Eretz Hakodesh (ca. 1550 – 1626) == Tzvi Hirsch HaCohen >> Rabbi Ephraim Fischel (ca. 1570 – 1653) == Gittel Shrentzel (ca. 1610 – 1652) >> Yehudit (Jute) Jutta Leib Saba == Rabbi Arye-Leib Fishles Kalusziner (ca. 1620 -1671) >> Pearl Aryeh Leib Kloisner ( ca. 1666 – 1722) == Ezekiel Joshua (Yechezkia Yehoshua) Feivel Frankel Teomim (ca. 1637 – ca. 1726) >> Chaim Yona Joseph Frankel Teomim (1684 – 1727) == Sara Oppenheim[er] (ca 1695 -1713) >> Magdelene (Genendel) Genendel Frankel Teomim ( 1713 – 1778) == Simon Isaak Bondi of Prague (ca. 1711 – 1773) >> Jonas Bondi (1732 – 1765) == Bella / Belle Schifra >> Clara / Caroline Bondi (1760-1829) == Koppel Loeb of Bamberg >> Moises Loeb / Moritz Reis (1782 – 1855) == Émilie Bickartt (1784 ) >> Jonas Reis (1809 – 1877) == Marian Samuel (1825 – 1900) >> REIS FAMILY
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Kalonymus Haberkasten was a rabbi and Talmudist in sixteenth century Poland. He is well known as the rosh yeshiva of many great rabbis including Rabbi Solomon Luria, who married his daughter Lipka. He was a direct ancestor of Moritz Reis via his daughter Lipka.
Haberkasten was rosh yeshiva in Lviv, and was later the first rabbi of the city of Ostroh, Volhynia. He left Ostroh to assume the position of rosh yeshiva in Brest and Luria succeeded him in Ostroh. Haberkasten then went to Eretz Yisroel/Ottoman Syria, in about 1560.
Haberkasten was also a Kabbalist and was known to have made the acquaintance of the great Kabbalists in the Holy Land, including Rabbi Chaim Vital.
Kalonymus / Klonimus Haberkasten was a rabbi and Talmudist in sixteenth century Poland. His daughter Lipka married Rabbi Solomon Luria. Haberkasten was rosh yeshiva in L’viv, and was later the first rabbi of the city of Ostroh, Volhynia.
He left Ostroh to assume the position of rosh yeshiva in Brest and Luria succeeded him in Ostroh. Haberkasten then went to Eretz Yisroel in Ottoman Syria.
Kalonymus died in Jerusalem in 1550, and was reputed to have been the holy Ari’s teacher. His greatest renown came from having saved the then-Sephardi Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue from the bloody consequences of a blood libel.
On the last Saturday before Passover, neighboring Arabs dumped the body of a young boy at the synagogue and charged that Jews had baked matzos with his blood – a popular calumny that originated in 1144 in Norwich England and for spurious spin-offs of which many Jews in diverse corners of the world were to pay with their lives for centuries.
Somehow Kalonymus pulled off his day’s counterpart of a forensic whodunit-sensation, proved the accusers’ deceit and foiled the rioters. But Kalonymus didn’t savor his victory. He berated himself for having violated the Sabbath in the course of performing his miracle.
To punish himself he requested that no tombstone be erected atop his grave. He was interred on the lower mountain gradient, near Rabbi Ovadia of Bertinoro (the “Bartenura”), and ordinary Jerusalemites passing by would always place stones on his unmarked grave. Over the centuries this folksy homage grew to considerable proportions and was visible from afar. In 1948, Arabs ripped out tombstones from the 3,000-year-old Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery and used them to construct public latrines. At that time they also pulled down the giant stack of stones piled up as Kalonymus’s marker during almost 400 years.
