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Moses Isserles (Rema)

1530 – 1572 Polish (Ashkenazi Jewish) Rabbi, legal authority

Krakow sage whose glosses adapted Caro's Shulchan Aruch for Ashkenazi Jews.

Religion
Judaism (Rabbinic)
Affiliations
Krakow; yeshiva head

Isserles led the Jewish community and yeshiva of Krakow and was its foremost legal authority. Because Caro's Shulchan Aruch followed Sephardic custom, Isserles added notes called the 'Mappah' recording the differing practices of Ashkenazi Jews. The combined text became the accepted code across the Jewish world. His birth year is given variously in the sources.

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