Chok Yaakov on Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayimחק יעקב על שולחן ערוך אורח חיים
Lviv (Lemberg) · 1696
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Jacob Reischer (Shevut Yaakov)
Jacob Reischer (Shevut Yaakov)
1661 CE–1733 CE · Acharonim
Jacob Reischer (c. 1661–1733) is best known for Shevut Yaakov, a collection of his rulings on real-life legal questions that Jews wrote in to ask him (responsa). As rabbi of Worms and later other communities, he was a prominent Ashkenazi halakhic authority and Talmudist in Central Europe, one of the rabbis whose answers later authorities turned to when deciding new cases. He is remembered as a bridge figure between earlier Ashkenazi tradition and the developing modern rabbinate.
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