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Zvi Hirsch Koidanover
d. 1712
Born in Vilna, Zvi Hirsch Koidanover moved across Europe with his father, the scholar Aaron Samuel Koidanover, after the Swedish invasion of Poland, following him to Nikolsburg, Fürth, and Frankfurt. Zvi Hirsch studied with Joseph Yoska ben Isaac, the rabbi of Minsk and Dubno, and later lived in Vilna and Frankfurt. His ethical work, Kav ha-yosher (The Just Measure) was popular both in the Hebrew original and in its Yiddish version.
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Kav ha-yosher (The Just Measure)
King Solomon, of blessed memory, wrote in Proverbs that one ought not to be too pious and one ought not to do too much evil. [The allusion, however, is to Ecclesiastes 7:16–17.] Accordingly, our sages…