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{{for|the Yiddish writer|Aaron ben Samuel of Hergershausen}}
{{Infobox rebbe
| title =
| dynasty = [[Shor (disambiguation)|Schor]]
| birth_name = Aaron Jekel Schor
| buried =
| death_place = [[Frankfurt (Oder)]], [[Germany]]
| death_date = 1701
| birth_place = [[Lipník nad Bečvou]], [[Moravia]]
| birth_date = 1620
| mother =
| father = Samuel Schor
| burial_date =
| caption = A page of Beis Aharon, published in 1690 in Frankfurt an der Oder.
| image =
| children = Abraham Selig Schor and Eliezer Schor
| spouse = Suessele Horowitz
| successor =
| predecessor =
| main_work = Beis Aharon
| nationality = German
| imagesize = 100px
}}'''Aaron Jekel ben Samuel Schor of Frankfurt''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: אהרון יקל בן שמואל שור מפרנקפורט; {{Circa|}} 1620 – 1701) also known as the '''Beis Aharon of Frankfurt''' was a 17th-century [[History of the Jews in Germany|Jewish-German]] [[rabbi]] and Hebrew author, best known for his work "Beis Aharon", which is considered to be amongst the most important [[Bible concordance|concordances of the Bible]].
== Biography ==
Aaron Jekel Schor was born around 1620 in [[Lipník nad Bečvou]], [[Moravia]], where his father Samuel Schor (1590-1663) was serving as the town's rabbi. His family held a tradition of paternal descent from the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[Tosafot|Tosafist]], [[Joseph Bekhor Shor|Joseph Bekhor Schor]]. In his early years, Aaron moved to [[Frankfurt an der oder|Frankfurt an der Oder]], where he married Suessele Horowitz (d. 1688) who was a great-granddaughter of [[Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller]]. Aaron was known to have published three other works, which are no longer extant and are only known, because of a passing remark in the introduction of Beis Aharon. Those works are: Sissera Torah – a midrashic commentary on [[Book of Judges|Judges]], Ḥibbur Masora – a midrashic commentary on the [[Masoretic Text|Masora]], of which he gives several specimens, and Shaloaḥ Manot – a short commentary on the treatise [[Megillah (Talmud)|Megillah]]. Aaron published Beis Aharon at Frankfurt an der Oder in 1690, being at that time of advanced age. In the introduction, he states that he spent ten long years writing the work, with the help of several other scholars who lived with him for this purpose. Beis Aharon was received with the approval of the greatest rabbinic authorities of the time, fifteen of whom give their approbation which prefaces the introduction of the work. The work is organized in the order of the Bible verse by verse, comprehensively citing usage of verses in the [[Talmud|Babylonian]] and [[Jerusalem Talmud]]s, [[Midrash]]im, [[Zohar|the Zohar]] and many other religious-philosophical, [[Homiletics|homiletic]], and [[Kabbalah|kabbalistic]] writings. The work finally concludes with a lengthy discussion on aspects of the [[Masoretic Text|Masorah]].  The work was published again in the 1780 [[Vilnius|Vilna]] and [[Grodno]] edition of the [[Nevi'im]] and [[Ketuvim]]. An enlarged edition by Abraham David Lavat appeared under the title "Beis Aharon ve-Hosafot" in 1880. At the request of his wife, Aaron translated into [[Yiddish]] the [[Midrash Petirat Moshe]], published in 1693 in Frankfurt on der Oder. This work seemed to be popular among women in [[Poland]] and [[Russia]]. Aaron also wrote a commentary on [[Perek Shirah]] which appeared as an appendix to the 1701 [[Berlin]] prayer book. Aaron died in 1701 in Frankfurt an der Oder. His eldest son Abraham Selig Schor (1640–1712) served as the [[Av Beit Din|Av Bet Din]] of Frankfurt an der Oder and his second son Eliezer Schor (1645–1716), was the [[rosh yeshiva]]h of the Frankfurt an der Oder yeshivah.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aaron ben Samuel {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/aaron-ben-samuel |website=encyclopedia.com |access-date=2020-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{Jewish Encyclopedia|title=Aaron ben Samuel|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/87-aaron-ben-samuel |inline=1 |access-date=2020-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Rabbi Eliezer ben Aaron of Frankfurt (Oder)|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Rabbi-Eliezer-ben-Aaron-of-Frankfurt-Oder/6000000138619661863 |website=geni_family_tree |language=en-US |access-date=2020-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Heller|first=Marvin J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oN95DwAAQBAJ&q=1701+Berlin+prayer+book&pg=PA1157|title=The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 vols): An Abridged Thesaurus|date=2010-12-07|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-18956-0|pages=1157|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Zedner|first=Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQg_AAAAcAAJ&q=AARON+BEN+SAMUEL&pg=PP890|title=Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum|date=1867|publisher=Trustees of the British Museum|pages=5}}</ref>
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