Family Card - Person Sheet
Name? MOSES (ben ISRAEL) ISSERLES-LAZARAUS
Birth1525-30
Death1 May 1572, Cracow
Notes for ? MOSES (ben ISRAEL) ISSERLES-LAZARAUS
MOSES ben ISRAEL LAZARAUS = Rabbi Moses Isserles (ReMA)
110 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.
110For more details of his important contribution to Jewish thought see the extract from the Jewish Encyclopaedia
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=3...%20israel%20isserles