Aaron Chorin
Aaron (Aharon) Chorin, pioneering Reform rabbi, was brought up in Hungary and Prague, where he received a yeshiva education. He studied rabbinic literature, Kabbalah, and general philosophy, and began an unsuccessful business career. Starting his rabbinical career with a position in 1789 in Arad, present-day Romania, he soon proved to be extremely controversial because of his position on a number of halakhic issues. Chorin favored ritualistic innovations such as eliminating Kol Nidre from Yom Kippur services, conducting prayers in the vernacular, and introducing the organ for Sabbath services.
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Nogah ha-tsedek (Radiance of Justice)
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Rabbinic Scholarship, 1750–1880
Despite the challenges of the early modern period, rabbinic scholarship flourished in Central and Eastern Europe in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.