Maharsham
1835 CE–1911 CE · Acharonim · Bilkamin
The Maharsham was the rabbi the whole Jewish world wrote to. R. Shalom Mordechai HaKohen Schwadron (1835-1911), the Maharsham of Berezhany (Brzeżany), was the leading Galician halachic authority (posek) of his generation, receiving more religious-legal questions (shaylas) by mail than perhaps any rabbi of his era — on farming during the sabbatical year (shemitta), on early-modern technology, and on the tangled marriage and identity cases thrown up by mass emigration. His nine-volume Teshuvot Maharsham responsa addresses this extraordinary range of late-19th-century practical questions and remains a first-stop reference for later authorities (Acharonim). He served as chief judge of the rabbinic court (Av Beit Din) of Berezhany for over 40 years.
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Following his marriage he settled with his father-in-law in Bilkamin, where he ran a business dealing in timber.
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