"Drisha" redirects here. For the center for advanced Talmudic studies for women, see Drisha Institute.
Woman at the tombstone of Joshua Falk in the Old Jewish cemetery in Lwow (1920s).The American Israelite describes the scholarship of "Bella Cohen" (Bayla Falk), wife of Joshua Falk
Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk (1555 – 29 March 1614) was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Drisha and Prisha commentaries on the Arba'ah Turim as well as Sefer Me'irat Enayim (סמ"ע) on Shulkhan Arukh. His name also occurs as the Hebrew acronyms רפ"כ ("RaFaC") ("Rabbi Falk Cohen"), מהרו"כ ("Ma-HaRWaC") ("Morenu ha-Rav Walk Cohen"), and מהר"י כ"ץ (MaHaRY KTzMorenu ha-Rav Joshua Katz).
Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk (1555 – 29 March 1614) was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Drisha and Prisha commentaries...
Jacob JoshuaFalk (Hebrew: יעקב יהושע פלק, also Yaakov Yehoshua ben Tzvi Hirsch, or Yaakov Yehoshua Falk — see Note on the name "JoshuaFalk") 1680 – January...
Bayla Falk was a daughter of the philanthropist and head of the community at Lemberg, Israel Edels, and wife of the well-known Talmudist JoshuaFalk, author...
Mexico Sergeant Major of the Army, U.S. Sima (Chinese surname), or Sma JoshuaFalk, known as SM"A Separately managed account, types of investment account...
Rabbi Falk can refer to several people: JoshuaFalk (1555–1614), Polish Halakhist and Talmudist Jacob JoshuaFalk (1680–1756), Rabbi in Poland and Germany...
mainstream rabbinate, especially by prominent anti-Sabbateans like Jacob JoshuaFalk. Even in the nineteenth century, when the Sabbatean movement had died...
rise to argument in the late Middle Ages. Some, such as Yoel Sirkis and JoshuaFalk, argued that mixing milk and meat from non-kosher animals should be prohibited...
rabbi at Lemberg. (In Lemberg he was engaged in a controversy with Rabbi JoshuaFalk concerning a bill of divorce.) In 1613 he became rabbi at Lublin and...
Lipka, daughter of Rabbi Kalonymus. Students in the yeshiva included JoshuaFalk. The Maharshal served as Rabbi in Brisk and various Lithuanian communities...
of the fetus as pursuer, is included verbatim. A key commentator, R. JoshuaFalk, explains that abortion does not trade off one life for another life...
from 1765 until his death. Rabbi Schiff was a disciple of Rabbi Jacob JoshuaFalk, author of the Classic Commentary on the Talmud Penei Yehoshua. He was...
Chazon Ish, that the shmita continues to be a biblical obligation. Rabbi JoshuaFalk, author of Sefer Me'irat Einayim on Choshen Mishpat, holds that shmita...
"The Gaon Rabbi Jacob of Lublin" Rabbi JoshuaFalk (1555–1614), also known as Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk Rabbi Shneur Zalman Fradkin (1830–1902)...
involved in the current controversies in regard to Shabbethaism. Jacob JoshuaFalk (1741–56); known to Talmudists through his valuable Talmud commentary...
novellae on the Talmud, by Jacob JoshuaFalk, 1680–1756 Responsa (She'elot u-Teshuvot Pene Yehoshua), by Rabbi Joshua Höschel ben Joseph, 1715 Homilies...
disciple of Moses Isserles (Rema). Horowitz studied under Meir Lublin and JoshuaFalk. He married Chaya, daughter of Abraham Moul, of Vienna, and was a wealthy...
Kimhi Radak 1160–1235 David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra Radbaz 1479–1573 JoshuaFalk RaFaC, Ma-HaRWaC or MaHaRY KTz 1555-1614 Levi ben Gershon (Gersonides)...
(/kəˈlʌmboʊ/) is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department...
(d. 1628) Samuel Eidels, Polish Jewish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1631) JoshuaFalk, Polish Jewish rabbi and commentator (d. 1614) Elijah Loans, German Jewish...
son-in-law of R. Mordecai Schrenzel of Lemberg. Rapoport was a pupil of R. JoshuaFalk ha-Kohen. For forty-five years he was at the head of a large yeshiva...
Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish poet and author (born 1556) March 29 – JoshuaFalk, Polish Hebrew scholar (born 1555) April 3 – John Spenser, English classicist...
publisher Johann Schröder (1600–1664), physician and pharmacologist Jacob JoshuaFalk (1680–1756), Talmudist, served as chief rabbi of Frankfurt Georg Philipp...
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