Moses Isserles

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Why Is Moses Isserles Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Rabbi Moses Isserles , also known by the acronym Rema, was an eminent Polish Ashkenazi rabbi, talmudist, and posek . Biography Isserles was born in Kraków, Poland. His father, Israel ben Josef , was a prominent talmudist and independently wealthy, who had probably headed the community; his grandfather, Jehiel Luria, was the first rabbi of Brisk. He studied in Lublin under Rabbi Shalom Shachna, who would later become his father-in-law. Among his fellow pupils were his relative Solomon Luria —later a major disputant of many of Isserles' halachic rulings, and Chayyim b. Bezalel, an older brother of the Maharal. His first wife died young, at the age of 20 and he later established the "Rema Synagogue" in Kraków in her memory . He later married the sister of Joseph ben Mordechai Gershon Ha-Kohen.

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