Editing Yair Bacharach (section)

== Life ==
[[File:Yair Hayyim Bacharach.jpg|thumb|The tombstone of Rabbi Yair Chayim Bacharach in the [[Jewish Cemetery, Worms|Jewish Cemetery of Worms]]]]
He was born in [[Lipník nad Bečvou|Lipnik]] in 1638; according to another claim, he was born in Mahersbrod in 1628. His birth name was Hayim; the name [[Jair|Yair]] was added after an illness. At age 12 he moved to [[Worms, Germany|Worms]] along with his father, who was appointed rabbi of the city. After the second marriage of his father to Phega, Bacharach become step brother of the famous jewish physician [[Tobias Cohn]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kaufmann |first=David |date=1891 |title=Jair Chayim Bacharach: A Biographical Sketch |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1449883 |journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=306 |doi=10.2307/1449883 |issn=0021-6682}}</ref> At 22 he was ordained as a rabbi, and served for some time as rabbi of [[Mainz]]. In 1666 he was chosen as rabbi of nearby [[Koblenz]], but in 1669 he returned to Worms. His father died in 1670 and although he left a will for the community to elect his son to replace him as chif rabbi they decided not to choose Bacharach but chose [[Aaron ben Moses Teomim|Aaron Teomim]], a preacher from [[Prague]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kaufmann |first=David |year=1891 |title=Jair Chayim Bacharach: A Biographical Sketch |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1449883 |journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review |volume=3 |pages=312-313 |via=}}</ref>

In 1689 the [[Worms, Germany|Worms]] community was decimated by the French during the [[Nine Years' War]], and Bacharach was forced to leave the city for a period of 10 years. Gradually, it was rebuilt. In 1699 he was appointed rabbi of Worms, where his father and grandfather had served before him. He served for only three years until his death in 1702. The inscription on his tombstone begins with the words: “A great and dark horror befalls us from the hiding of the light of Rabbeinu...”