שלמה פלעסנר

Salomon Plessner, Shlomo ben Leib Plessner (שלמה פלעסנר), was an acharon of Germany, a maggid (preacher) and translator who lived from 1797 to 1883. He was close to Rabbi Akiva Eger and stood against the reformers of his day.

He was born in Breslau to Rabbi Yehuda Plessner, who was niftar while Shlomo was still young. To support his mother and himself he went into business, but he made time to learn Hebrew, Torah and German. In 1819 he published Hosafah LiMegillat Esther, a Hebrew translation of the additions to Megillat Esther found in the Apocrypha (books left out of Tanach), with an introduction on their history.

In the same years he became known as a maggid, and many of his drashot were printed, among them his hesped (eulogy) for Rabbi Avraham Tiktin, Zecher Tzaddik LiVeracha (1821). Through his drashot and his closeness to Rabbi Akiva Eger people came to see him as a defender of Torah Judaism at a time when the reform movement was spreading. When the police forbade him to preach, he moved in 1823 to Festenberg in Silesia.

In 1826 he submitted a defense of the Talmud to the government of Posen, and as a result the government cancelled a decree that had forbidden teaching Talmud in the schools.

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