Rav Aharon Tumim of Cracow was born in 5390/1630. His father, Rav Moshe Tumim, was Rav in Mehrin. His paternal grandfather was Rav Shimon Tumim Lemil, one of the Gedolim of Vienna.
Rav Aharon married the sister of Rav Eliezer HaLevi Ettinger, of Holleschau, Austria.
From 5419/1659 to 5432/1672, Rav Aharon was Darshan and Maggid Shiur in Prague. Later, he became Rav and Rosh Yeshiva in Worms, Germany. He was an acknowledged Talmid Chochom with a phenomenal memory.
After the petira of Rav Mordechai Deitches, Rav of Cracow, Rav Aharon was chosen to take his place. He was to move there in 5447/1687, but because of political circumstances, he delayed his departure from Worms by a few years, leaving in 5450/1690. Shortly thereafter, the city was destroyed by the troops of King Louis XIV of France.
Rav Aharon was Rav in Cracow for barely four months when a Polish nobleman had him arrested. He was killed on Shabbos Parashas MattosOMasei, second of Av, 5450/1690, in Chmielnik, and buried in Pintchov, where the local Rav was his brother-in-law (his sister’s husband), Rav Yehudah Leib Tzintz of Holleschau.
Rav Aharon wrote two seforim: Matteh Aharon on Haggada shel Pesach, and Bigdei Aharon on Torah.
Hashem yinkom damo.
