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    Moses Isserles (Hebrew: משה בן ישראל איסרלישׂ; Polish: Mojżesz ben Israel Isserles; 22 February 1530 / 25 Adar I 5290 – 11 May 1572 / 18 Iyar 5332), also...
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    as Isserles', with Karo usually referred to as "the Mekhaber" (Hebrew: הַמְחַבֵּר, "author") and Isserles as "the Rema" (an acronym of Moshe Isserles)....
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  • served as one source for HaMapah, the component of the Shulkhan Arukh by Moses Isserles. He is also known as Israel of Neustadt, Israel of Marpurk, and Maharai...
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  • being more nuanced, with several early modern authorities (including Moses Isserles and Taz) arguing that this restriction only applied to the milk and...
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    (רמ״ק) Moses Holden (1777–1864), English astronomer Moses Isserles (1530–1572; Hebrew: משה בן ישראל איסרלישׂ, Polish: Mojżesz ben Israel Isserles), Polish...
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  • the Vaishnava saint "The Rama" (1530–1572), Jewish religious teacher Moses Isserles Frederick Lenz, a spiritual teacher who used Rama as his teaching name...
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    commentaries are Bayit Chadash by rabbi Joel Sirkis, Darkhei Moshe by Moses Isserles, Beit Yisrael (Perishah u-Derishah) by rabbi Joshua Falk, as well as...
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  • (1904). "ISSERLES, MOSES BEN ISRAEL (ReMA)". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 678. Retrieved Dec 21, 2020. Moses Isserles (1711)...
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    anniversaries of their deaths. Until the Second World War, the Yahrzeit of Moses Isserles was observed in Cracow on the 18th of Iyyar. In the State of Israel...
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    and Talmudist, and Rosh yeshiva of several great Acharonim including Moses Isserles, who was also his son-in-law. Shachna was a pupil of Jacob Pollak, founder...
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    Around 1550, he had several correspondences with Rabbi Moses Isserles (Rema). Rabbi Isserles represented the moderated use of philosophy in Jewish studies...
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    descending from Simcha Bunim Meisels (1545-1624) (the son-in-law of Moses Isserles) immigrated to Kraków, Poland due to rising Antisemitism in Bohemia...
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  • position of the Kol Bo, lifting before, eventually lost to that of Moses Isserles and is followed in only a few Ashkenazic communities. Two honorees are...
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    Shachna - father-in-law and teacher of Moses Isserles. Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm was also a cousin of Moses Isserles. Rabbi Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi...
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    styles and completed in 1557, the synagogue is named in honor of Rabbi Moses Isserles, known by the Hebrew acronym ReMA (רמ״א, pronounced RaMUH) who's famed...
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    not fast. The Shulchan Aruch records the custom of fasting. However, Moses Isserles records that some people instead "redeem" the fast. Later commentaries...
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    die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums," xiii. 371). He and Moses Isserles studied with Shalom Shachna, whose methods of teaching he adopted largely...
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    is permitted because it glorifies the torah", a ruling affirmed by Moses Isserles (Darkhei Moshe). This places the custom of removing the scrolls from...
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  • 16th-century rabbi and author from Prague. Horowitz was a student of Moses Isserles and served as rabbi in several communities. Horowitz authored: Yesh...
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    Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz, a notable scholar and author, and a disciple of Moses Isserles (Rema). Horowitz studied under Meir Lublin, Joshua Falk and Nasan Nota...
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  • Deborah Rivkah Drucker, granddaughter of Israel ben Josef and niece of Moses Isserles, with whom he had thirteen children, including the renowned Polish rabbi...
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  • " When R' Moshe Isserles' gloss to the Shulḥan Arukh (called Mappah) appeared in Cracow in 1578, Rabbi Yoffe felt that Rabbi Isserles had been too brief...
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    ruling of the Shulchan Aruch, among Ashkenazim customs are split, with Moses Isserles ruling that all garment types are acceptable. While the Mishnah Berurah...
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    Segal or Mahari Moelin. Maharil's Minhagim was a source of law for Moses Isserles’ component of the Shulkhan Arukh. Maharil was the son and pupil of Moshe...
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  • Maharal. While there he prepared for publication the "Darke Mosheh" of Moses Isserles. At the beginning of the seventeenth century Loans was called to the...
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  • to her seeing blood. Ashkenazim: According to the halachic ruling of Moses Isserles, in all cases, whether a woman cohabited with her husband within the...
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    of later rabbis accepted in particular communities. The Polish rabbi Moses Isserles, while acknowledging the merits of the Shulḥan Aruch, felt that it did...
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  • Ha-Mapah (Hebrew: "the tablecloth"), a commentary on the Shulchan Aruch by Moses Isserles The Mapah, title of the French mystic Simon Ganneau (1805-1851) Mapa...
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    16th-century Remah Synagogue. The cemetery bears the name of Rabbi Moses Isserles, whose name is abbreviated as Remah. The cemetery was closed in around...
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    of some superstitious practice (or "the way of the Amorites"). Rabbi Moses Isserles (1530–1572) opines that to these strictures can be added one additional...
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