Rama (R. Moshe Isserlis)

Rabbi Moses Isserles (meaning 'son of Israel'), known by the abbreviation Remo (or Rema), was born in Cracow, Poland in the year 5280 (1520), and died at the age of 52, on Lag-Baomer. His father Israel was a learned as well as a wealthy man, and one of th...

Rabbi Moshe Isereles ("Rama") of Cracow (1525-1573?) authored the glosses ("hagga'ot") on R. Yosef Caro's the Code of Jewish Law and is regarded as the definitive Halachic authority for Ashkenazic Jews. Links: Rabbi Moshe Isserlis

Shulchan Aruch, alse referred to as the Code of Jewish Law, was authored in Safed, by Rabbi Joseph Karo in 1563 and published in Venice two years later.

In the old cemetery in Cracow stood a great tree, whose large branches seemed to have borne the weight of centuries, and were laden with the heaviness of time.

Jewish life in Poland. Rabbi Moshe Isserless. The Maharsha. Rabbi Shlomo Luria. Rabbi Joel Sirkes and Rabbi Meir of Lublin. Va'ad Arba Aratzos. Jewish economic activity. The shtetl. The Maharal of Prague. Other Torah centers.

Great Torah centers, most notably in Eretz Israel, Turkey, and Poland, arose to replace the destruction of the Spanish communities.

This class covers the early modern period in Eastern Europe, where Jewish communities flourished under the self-governance of the Council of Four Lands, but were later devastated with the Chmielnitzki Massacres in 1648.

At the conclusion of every farbrengen, the Rebbe would remind those present that whoever is obligated to recite an after-blessing, should make sure to do so.

שו"ע מעקה לגגו נ"ב ומברך אקב"ו לעשות מעקה. ואם אחר עושה המעקה מברך העושה על עשיית מעקה. רמב"ם פי"א מהל' ברכות. ואם עושה מעקה ע"י פועל נכרי אם יכול לברך. ע' מחנה אפרים הל' שלוחין סי' יא:סליק

שו"ע לחתוך העובר נ"ב ואם נכרי מותר לעשות כן. ע' סנהדרין נט תוס' ד"ה מידעם: שו"ע כיון שהערה בה נ"ב ע' ת' הרדב"ז ח"א סי' שפח: