Aryeh Leib Epstein

He is the author of Or ha-Shanim, on the 613 commandments (Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, 1754), Halakah Aḥaronah and Ḳunṭres ha-Ra'yot (ib. 1754; Königsberg, 1759), Sefer ha-Pardes, in three parts: (1) on the Shema and the observance of Shabbat, (2) sermons, (3) funeral orations (ib. 1759). Several other Kabbalistic and halachic works from his pen are mentioned in his own works or by his biographer. A prayer which he composed on the occasion of the dedication of a new synagogue in Königsberg (ib. 1756) is found in the Bodleian Library. Annotations by him and by his son Abraham Meïr Epstein are published in some of the later editions of the Babylonian Talmud. He is called "Levin Marcus" in Solowicz's Gesch. der Juden in Königsberg, Posen, 1857.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• Epstein, Geburot Ari, Warsaw, 1870;
• Joseph Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 241;
• Friedenstein, Ir Gibborim, pp. 44, 47, Vilna, 1880;