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Moshe Isserles Rabbi, 1520–1572 (aged 52 years)

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Moshe Isserles Rabbi

Name: Moshe /Isserles/ Rabbi
Surname: Isserles
Given names: Moshe
Name suffix: Rabbi
Also known as: The /Rema/

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father	Links Death: Unique identifier: 0C935D7D00C2FF4AB84D5FBB2A3928033114 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Dina Malki Shrentzels Miriam Beila Isserlein Moshe Isserles Rabbi Itzhak Isserlein Yosef Isserlein Eliezer Isserlein Israel Isserlein …–… Death:
mother	Links Birth: 1485 15 Death: 1553 — Krakow Poland Unique identifier: 0C935D7D00C2FF4AB84D5FBB2A3928033114 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Israel Isserlein Miriam Beila Isserlein Moshe Isserles Rabbi Itzhak Isserlein Yosef Isserlein Eliezer Isserlein Dina Malki Shrentzels 1485–1553 Birth: 1485 15 Death: 1553 — Krakow Poland
sister	Links Birth: Krakow Poland Death: 8 September 1617 — Krakow Poland Unique identifier: C977375222527A479013C5AD4A431C601CA3 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Pinchas Halevi Ish-Hurvitz Rabbi Hinde Horowitz Miriam Beila Isserlein …–1617 Birth: Krakow Poland Death: 8 September 1617 — Krakow Poland
himself	Links Birth: 1520 35 Marriage: about 1555 Occupation: Rabbi of Cracow 1547-1572 Death: 26 April 1572 — Krakow Poland Unique identifier: B9D96F38DF4A9947BA903B6CAA1E53EA381C Unique identifier: A07D93E64756C141B384C2C924A5E3DC7FB2 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Golda Shachna Family with spouse Shprinze Katz Dreizel Isserles Yehuda Lieb Isserles Moshe Isserles Rabbi 1520–1572 Birth: 1520 35 Death: 26 April 1572 — Krakow Poland
brother	Links Birth: Krakow Poland Death: 6 September 1584 — Krakow Poland Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Itzhak Isserlein …–1584 Birth: Krakow Poland Death: 6 September 1584 — Krakow Poland
brother	Links Birth: Krakow Poland Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Yosef Isserlein …–… Birth: Krakow Poland Death:
brother	Links Birth: Krakow Poland Death: 28 July 1623 — Vienna Osterreich Austria Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Eliezer Isserlein …–1623 Birth: Krakow Poland Death: 28 July 1623 — Vienna Osterreich Austria

Family with Golda Shachna
himself	Links Birth: 1520 35 Marriage: about 1555 Occupation: Rabbi of Cracow 1547-1572 Death: 26 April 1572 — Krakow Poland Unique identifier: B9D96F38DF4A9947BA903B6CAA1E53EA381C Unique identifier: A07D93E64756C141B384C2C924A5E3DC7FB2 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Golda Shachna Family with spouse Shprinze Katz Dreizel Isserles Yehuda Lieb Isserles Moshe Isserles Rabbi 1520–1572 Birth: 1520 35 Death: 26 April 1572 — Krakow Poland
partner	Links Birth: 1532 Death: 3 June 1552 — Krakow Poland Unique identifier: B9D96F38DF4A9947BA903B6CAA1E53EA381C Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Moshe Isserles Rabbi Golda Shachna 1532–1552 Birth: 1532 Death: 3 June 1552 — Krakow Poland

Family with Shprinze Katz
himself	Links Birth: 1520 35 Marriage: about 1555 Occupation: Rabbi of Cracow 1547-1572 Death: 26 April 1572 — Krakow Poland Unique identifier: B9D96F38DF4A9947BA903B6CAA1E53EA381C Unique identifier: A07D93E64756C141B384C2C924A5E3DC7FB2 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Golda Shachna Family with spouse Shprinze Katz Dreizel Isserles Yehuda Lieb Isserles Moshe Isserles Rabbi 1520–1572 Birth: 1520 35 Death: 26 April 1572 — Krakow Poland
wife	Links Birth: about 1535 Marriage: about 1555 Death: Unique identifier: A07D93E64756C141B384C2C924A5E3DC7FB2 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Moshe Isserles Rabbi Dreizel Isserles Yehuda Lieb Isserles Shprinze Katz 1535–… Birth: about 1535 Death:
Marriage	Marriage — about 1555 —
daughter	Links Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Dreizel Isserles …–… Death:
son	Links Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Yehuda Lieb Isserles …–… Death:

Events of close relatives
Birth	1520 35
Occupation	Rabbi of Cracow 1547-1572
Death of a wife	Golda Shachna 3 June 1552 Krakow Poland
Death of a paternal grandmother	Gittel Auerbach 19 June 1552 Krakow Poland
Death of a mother	Dina Malki Shrentzels 1553 Krakow Poland
Marriage	Shprinze Katz — View this family about 1555 (aged 35 years)
Death of a maternal grandmother	Miriam Dreizel Luria about 1559
Death of a father	Israel Isserlein
Death	26 April 1572 (aged 52 years) Krakow Poland
Unique identifier	48E135B7A542DF43B9B576A30C1576AAE636
Last change	25 May 2012 – 11:56:18 Author of last change: Danny

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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.

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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.