(1722-1803)
Polish talmudist. He served as rabbi at Minsk (1757-63), Pinsk (1763-76), Posen (1772-6), and Altona (1776-99). An opponent of Moses Mendelssohn, he was critical of modernism. His Torat Yekutiel is a commentary on the first part of the Shulhan Arukh.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.