Aaron Moses Taubes

Aaron Moses ben Jacob Taubes was a Galician-born Romanian rabbi and writer.

Biography

Taubes was born in Lemberg in 1787. He became rabbi of Sniatyn and its districts in 1820, and in 1841 was appointed rabbi of Iași, where he remained until his death. He died in Iași in 1852.
He corresponded on halakhic subjects with Rabbis Shlomo Kluger and Jacob Meshullam Ornstein, as well as with the latter's son.

Works

His works are: "To'afot Re'em", responsa on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch. Among these are some written to his son and some to his grandson Shalom Taubes. "Ḳarne Re'em", novellæ on the Talmud, mentioned in "She'elat Shalom," No. 254. Novellæ on Alfasi, which remained in manuscript.