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Moshe Isserles Rabbi, 15201572 (aged 52 years)

Name
Moshe /Isserles/ Rabbi
Surname
Isserles
Given names
Moshe
Name suffix
Rabbi
Also known as
The /Rema/
Family with parents
father
mother
sister
1617
Birth: Krakow Poland
Death: 8 September 1617Krakow Poland
himself
15201572
Birth: 1520 35
Death: 26 April 1572Krakow Poland
brother
1584
Birth: Krakow Poland
Death: 6 September 1584Krakow Poland
brother
brother
1623
Birth: Krakow Poland
Death: 28 July 1623Vienna Osterreich Austria
Family with Golda Shachna
himself
15201572
Birth: 1520 35
Death: 26 April 1572Krakow Poland
partner
15321552
Birth: 1532
Death: 3 June 1552Krakow Poland
Family with Shprinze Katz
himself
15201572
Birth: 1520 35
Death: 26 April 1572Krakow Poland
wife
Marriage Marriageabout 1555
daughter
son
Birth
1520 35
Occupation
Rabbi of Cracow 1547-1572
Death of a wife
Death of a paternal grandmother
Death of a mother
Marriage
about 1555 (aged 35 years)
Death of a maternal grandmother
Death of a father
Death
26 April 1572 (aged 52 years)
Unique identifier
48E135B7A542DF43B9B576A30C1576AAE636
Last change
25 May 201211:56:18
Author of last change: Danny
Note

Moses ben Israel Isserles
The Rema

Rabbi Moshe Isserles, the RAMA
(1530 - 1572)

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.