Person Sheet


Name ? MOSES (ben ISRAEL) ISSERLES-LAZARAUS
Birth 1525-30
Death 1 May 1572, Cracow
Spouses
1 ? SCHACHINA
Birth 1552140
Father Schalom SCHACHINA
2 ? KATZ140
Children Dresel (bat MOSES) (1561-1601)
(Isserles bat Moses) (-~1560)
Judah Leib (ben Moses) (-1550)
Notes for ? MOSES (ben ISRAEL) ISSERLES-LAZARAUS
MOSES ben ISRAEL LAZARAUS = Rabbi Moses Isserles (ReMA)140 Founded a Yeshiva and was its Rosh Jeshivah (President) for life. Author of " DARKHE MOSHE" the ashkenazi viepoint of Josef Caro's spehardic Halachic tradition. Codifier of ashkenazi traditions. Through his additions, the "SHULCHAN ARUCH" became the authoritative work among the Ashkenazim.140

For more details of his important contribution to Jewish thought see the extract from the Jewish Encyclopaedia http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=366&letter=I&search=moses%20ben%20israel%20isserles
Last Modified 25 May 2004 Created 7 Dec 2008 using Reunion for Macintosh

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