Moses Isserles is commonly known by the Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Moses Isserles, "Rema" (Hebrew: רמ״א). He is not to be confused with Meir Abulafia, known as "Ramah" (Hebrew: רמ״ה), nor with Menahem Azariah da Fano, known as "Rema MiPano" (Hebrew: רמ״ע מפאנו).
Rabbi
Moses Isserles (Rema)
Personal
Born
22 February 1530
Kraków, Kingdom of Poland
Died
10 May 1572(1572-05-10) (aged 42)
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Religion
Judaism
Nationality
Polish
Parents
Israel ben Josef (father)
Malka (mother)
Buried
Kraków, Poland
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),[1] also known by the acronym Rema, was an eminent Polish Ashkenazi rabbi, talmudist, and posek (expert in Jewish law).
MosesIsserles (Hebrew: משה בן ישראל איסרלישׂ; Polish: Mojżesz ben Israel Isserles; 22 February 1530 / 25 Adar I 5290 – 11 May 1572 / 18 Iyar 5332), also...
as Isserles', with Karo usually referred to as "the Mekhaber" (Hebrew: הַמְחַבֵּר, "author") and Isserles as "the Rema" (an acronym of Moshe Isserles)....
being more nuanced, with several early modern authorities (including MosesIsserles and Taz) arguing that this restriction only applied to the milk and...
not fast. The Shulchan Aruch records the custom of fasting. However, MosesIsserles records that some people instead "redeem" the fast. Later commentaries...
first attested in the 16th-century Shulchan Aruch commentary of Rabbi MosesIsserles, and it is not known when the custom began. It is not used during the...
Kazimierz district of Kraków, Poland. The synagogue is named after Rabbi MosesIsserles (c.1525–1572), known by the Hebrew acronym ReMA (רמ״א, pronounced RaMUH)...
(1904). "ISSERLES, MOSES BEN ISRAEL (ReMA)". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 678. Retrieved Dec 21, 2020. MosesIsserles (1711)...
descending from Simcha Bunim Meisels (1545-1624) (the son-in-law of MosesIsserles) immigrated to Kraków, Poland due to rising Antisemitism in Bohemia...
served as one source for HaMapah, the component of the Shulkhan Arukh by MosesIsserles. He is also known as Israel of Neustadt, Israel of Marpurk, and Maharai...
Segal or Mahari Moelin. Maharil's Minhagim was a source of law for MosesIsserles’ component of the Shulkhan Arukh. Maharil was the son and pupil of Moshe...
16th-century Remah Synagogue. The cemetery bears the name of Rabbi MosesIsserles, whose name is abbreviated as Remah. The cemetery was closed in around...
Deborah Rivkah Drucker, granddaughter of Israel ben Josef and niece of MosesIsserles, with whom he had thirteen children, including the renowned Polish rabbi...
anniversaries of their deaths. Until the Second World War, the Yahrzeit of MosesIsserles was observed in Cracow on the 18th of Iyyar. In the State of Israel...
Shachna - father-in-law and teacher of MosesIsserles. Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm was also a cousin of MosesIsserles. Rabbi Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi...
Ha-Mapah (Hebrew: "the tablecloth"), a commentary on the Shulchan Aruch by MosesIsserles The Mapah, title of the French mystic Simon Ganneau (1805-1851) Mapa...
is best known as one of the primary Ashkenazi authorities quoted by MosesIsserles in the Shulkhan Arukh. Rabbi Bruna was born in Brno in the Bohemian...
also included I Am that I Am, as do many later authorities, including MosesIsserles (SA YD 276:9). The original lists are found in y. Megillah 1:9 and b...
16th-century rabbi and author from Prague. Horowitz was a student of MosesIsserles and served as rabbi in several communities. Horowitz authored: Yesh...
of some superstitious practice (or "the way of the Amorites"). Rabbi MosesIsserles (1530–1572) opines that to these strictures can be added one additional...
to her seeing blood. Ashkenazim: According to the halachic ruling of MosesIsserles, in all cases, whether a woman cohabited with her husband within the...
theorem, a formula in probability theory named after Leon Isserlis MosesIsserles (1530–1572), Polish Ashkenazic rabbi and talmudist Steven Isserlis (born...
HaMalakh Sefer Yetzirah Mashallah ibn Athari (754–813) Moses ibn Tibbon (fl. 1244–1274) MosesIsserles (d. 1573) In the Bible Gunkel's Commentary on Genesis...
of later rabbis accepted in particular communities. The Polish rabbi MosesIsserles, while acknowledging the merits of the Shulḥan Aruch, felt that it did...
Africa and Italy show no evidence of a huppah as it is known today. MosesIsserles (1520–1572) notes that the portable marriage canopy was widely adopted...
and many rabbis consulted him, among them: Moses Alashkar, Obadiah Sforno, and his relative MosesIsserles (who addressed him as "rabbi of Venice"). It...
mark the date as "the day of my joy." 18 Iyar (circa 1573) – Death of MosesIsserles, who is regarded as the definitive Halachic authority for Ashkenazi...
is permitted because it glorifies the torah", a ruling affirmed by MosesIsserles (Darkhei Moshe). This places the custom of removing the scrolls from...