autobiography, Megillat Sefer, pp. 21, 68, Warsaw, 1896), he was a man of mediocre abilities, whose scientific attainments were not above the practical requirements for the rabbinical office. His first approbation as Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam dates from June 1741, on the book Kehilat Shelomo al sefer Ein Yakov, written by Shelomo Yekutiel Zalman ben Yechiel Ichel Glogau, published in Amsterdam. Aryeh signs as residing from Glogau, supervising the congregation in Lviv and ready to serve in Amsterdam, where he was appointed but apparently did not yet dwell. Descendants Of his sons, one, Saul (1717 – 20 June 1790), was his successor, while the other, who called himself Hart Lyon, was Chief Rabbi in London and Berlin. The son of the latter was Chief Rabbi Solomon Herschell, first Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. His daughter Sarah Leah was the wife of Yitzhak HaLevi, the rabbi of Kraków from 1776 until his death in 1799. Yitzhak HaLevi's son Tzvi Hirsch David Ha-Levi was Acting Rabbi of Kraków from 1799 and formally appointed Rabbi of Kraków in 1816 until his death in 1831. Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography S. Buber, Anshe Shem, pp. 37 ff., Cracow, 1895 References External links 1690s births 1755 deaths 18th-century Polish rabbis Polish emigrants to the Netherlands