Moshe ben Abraham HALEVI HELLER-WALLERSTEIN [MAHARAL SON-IN-LAW]

{geni:about_me} Rabbi Moshe Heller-Wallerstein - Chief Rabbi of Germany - In-law of the Maharal of Prague.

Moses HaLevi HELLER-WALLERSTEIN (b. 1520 Wallerstein, Germany, d. 1580), was Chief Rabbi of Germany. His son Rabbi Avraham HaLevi Frankel Heller-Wallerstein (b. Lublin, d. Vienna, Aug. 3, 1572) married Rachel Loew (Maharal daughter, d. 1633, Prague).

He was the father of Rabbi Nathan HeLevi Heller and Rabbi Avraham Heller. Rabbi Nathan died at the age of 18 in 1579 just before his son Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann Halevi-Heller-Wallerstein was born in Wallerstein (d. 1854 in Krakaw). Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipman Heller was raised by his Grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Wallerstein. He was Chief Rabbi in Nikolsburg (Nickelsberg), Vienna, Prague and Krakow.

"the unbroken chain"

Was descendant of Natan ha'Romi, A.K.A Natan ben Yechiel, (1035-1106), the chief rabbi of Rome and head of the Rome yeshiva.

Natan's grandson Yehiel ben Avraham, the Gaon of Rome, was a confidant and financial minister to the Pope in Rome. One of his daughters was an ancestor of the Heller family, which included well-known Rabbis Yom Tov Lipman Heller

Note: see Moses HaLevi Heller-Wallerstein Mirels (Frankel) (1598 Vienna - 1688 Vienna) on Spira page OR any relation to wikipedia & Jewishgen: Yom-Tov Lippman Heller (1579 Wallerstein - 1654 Krakow), son of Nathan haLevi Heller, son of Moses + Rachel (- 1655), daughter of Moses Aaron Askenazi & Nechele Teomin

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prohel/names/loew/maharaldes.html#walle

http://www.loebtree.com/heller.html

"Die Grabschriften des alten Judenfriedhof in Wien" - Dr. Bernhard Wachstein, Band I , pg. 481

"Die Grabschriften des alten Judenfriedhof in Wien" - Dr. Bernhard Wachstein, Band I pg. 272

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Tov_Lippmann

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