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Moshe Isserles Rabbi, 1520–1572?> (aged 52 years)
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- Moshe /Isserles/ Rabbi
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- Isserles
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- Moshe
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- Rabbi
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- The /Rema/
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Birth: Krakow Poland Death: 8 September 1617 — Krakow Poland |
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Birth: Krakow Poland Death: 28 July 1623 — Vienna Osterreich Austria |
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Rabbi of Cracow 1547-1572
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48E135B7A542DF43B9B576A30C1576AAE636
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Moses ben Israel Isserles Rabbi Moshe Isserles, the RAMA Otherwise known as RAMA; in his Short but incredibly productive life,Rabbi Moshe put an indelible stamp on the world of Torah scholarship. HisMAPA, Tablecloth, representing the Ashkenazic Torah world, integratedwith the Shulchan Aruch, and enabled it to represent the entire JewishTorah spectrum. Moses ben Israel Isserles was considered the "Maimonides of PolishJewry," was one of the Greatest Jewish scholars of Poland. Born inCracow, he was the Great grandson of Jehiel Luria, the first Rabbi ofBrisk. He studied in Lublin at the Shalom Shachna Yeshiva where he methis first wife, Schachna’s daughter. She died young, at the age of 20,and he built the Isserles (later known as the Remu) Synagogue, in hermemory. Isserles Remarried the sister of Joseph ben Morechai GershonHa-Kohen. Isserles founded a Yeshiva in Cracow. He became a world-renowned scholar,a Posek, and was approached by many other well-known Rabbis for Halachicdecisions, including Joseph Caro, Solom Luria and Joseph Katz. One of hismost well-known commentAries was the Mappa (the Tablecloth), a commentaryon the Shulhan Arukh, written by Joseph Caro. The Shulhan Arukh focusesmainly on Sephardic rite and customs, while the Mappa emphasizesAshkenazic customs, henceforth expanding the influence of the work toEaStern European Jewry. Not only was Isserles well versed in Talmud, he also studied Kabbalah andJewish mystical writings, as well as history, astronomy and Greekphilosophy. Isserles is considered one of the forerunners of the Jewishenlightenment. Isserles died in Cracow and was buried next to his synagogue. Thousandsof pilgrims visited his grave annually on Lag b’Omer, until the SecondWorld War. The Rema, Rabbi Moshe Isserless, took the Sephardic Shulchan Aruch byYosef Caro and keyed on differences that applied to Ashkenaz. Thus hisentries in the Shulchan Aruch are a crucial Ashkenazic resource. But hewas also a central figure in developing Jewish Europe. |
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