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Asher Zebi ben David of Ostrowo was a 19th-century hasidic rabbi who served as Av Beit Din of Korets, Volhynia, and later as " maggid " (preacher) of Ostrowo, in the government of Lomza in Russian Poland. He was a pupil of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch. [1] [2]
Asher is the author of "Ma'ayn haḤokmah" (Spring of Wisdom), Korets, 1817, containing kabbalistic homilies on the Torah and other books of the Hebrew Bible. [1] [3] Eliezer Zweifel in his work in defense of Hasidism ("Shalom al-Yisrael," pp. 81, 82) quotes aphorisms from this work; one of which shows Asher's contempt for those who study the laws of nature or secular science. [2]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Louis Ginzberg and Peter Wiernik (1901–1906). "ASHER ẒEBI BEN DAVID". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.  | This Hasidic Judaism article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
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