"Raphael ben Jekuthiel Susskind Cohen", in German language/German "Rafael ben Jekutiel Süsskind Kohen", a kohen, was Chief Rabbi of Altona, Hamburg/Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek from 1775.

He was educated at Minsk under Aryeh Löb ben Asher, whose successor as head of the yeshibah of that town he became in 1742. In 1744 he was called to the rabbinate of Rakov, and in 1747 to that of Vilkomir (a town not far from Wilna), where he remained till 1757, when he was called as chief rabbi to Minsk. Six years later he became rabbi and head of the yeshibah at Pinsk. In 1771 he went to Berlin for the purpose of publishing there his work "Torat Yekutiel." The scholars of that city received him with enthusiasm and respect, and offered him the rabbinate, which was then vacant, but for some unknown reason he declined the offer. In 1772 he became rabbi of Pozna?/Posen, and four years afterwards he was called to take charge of the "Three Communities" (Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck). Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography: Grätz, Gesch. xi. 540; Lewin, Talpiyyot, p. 8, Berdychev, 1895; Lazarus Riesser, Zeker ?addi?, Altona, 1805; Eisenstadt, Rabbane Minsk wa-?akameha, p. 18, Wilna, 1899.

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