Moshe Alshich
Also known as The Alshich HaKadosh
1508 CE–1593 CE · Acharonim · Edirne (Adrianople)
R. Moshe Alshich (1508-1593) — the Alshich HaKadosh — was one of the foundational figures of the Tzfat kabbalistic-halachic circle in its golden generation. Born in Adrianople (Edirne) into a Sephardic exilic family, he studied under R. Yosef Taitatzak in Salonika before settling in Tzfat in his thirties, where he became a colleague of R. Yosef Karo (who ordained him), R. Moshe Cordovero, and R. Yitzchak Luria (the Arizal, who is recorded as having received Torah from him on Mondays and Wednesdays).
His Torat Moshe — a homiletic commentary on the entire Tanach — is one of the most widely-studied Sephardic homiletic works of all time, valued for its accessible Sephardic-derush style that interweaves halacha, Aggadah, and Kabbalah without becoming impenetrable. Karo considered him one of the great preachers of the generation.
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Edirne (Adrianople)אדריאנופולOttoman Thrace — Ottoman capital before Istanbul
What they did here
He was born in Adrianople in 1508, the son of Rabbi Chaim Alshich, whose family had left Spain in the wake of the 1492 expulsion.
About Edirne (Adrianople)
Edirne (Adrianople) was the Ottoman capital before Mehmed II's conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and remained one of the empire's largest Sephardic centers after 1492. R. Yosef Karo wrote the bulk of the Beit Yosef here between 1522 and 1554 before relocating to Tzfat. The city's Beit Midrash housed Karo, R. Yosef Taitazak, and R. Yitzchak Caro.
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Jewish world
- Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen· 1482 CE–1565 CE
- R. Eliyahu Capsali· 1483 CE–1555 CE
- Shimon Lavi· 1486 CE–1585 CE
- Rabbi Shalom Shachna of Lublin· 1490 CE–1558 CE
- David Reuveni· 1490 CE–1538 CE
- Rabbi Menachem Dovid Tiktin· 1510 CE–1598 CE
- Shlomo Luria (Yam Shel Shlomo)· 1510 CE–1573 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Katz· 1511 CE–1591 CE
- Rabbi Yehoshua Boaz· 1518 CE–1555 CE
- Rabbi Chaim ben Betzalel· 1520 CE–1588 CE
- Rabbi Shmuel Yehuda Katzenellenbogen· 1521 CE–1597 CE
- Judah Loew of Prague (Maharal)· 1525 CE–1609 CE
- Moses Isserles (Rema)· 1530 CE–1572 CE
- R. Mordechai Yoffe (Levush)· 1530 CE–1612 CE
- Rabbi Elazar ben Moshe Azikri· 1533 CE–1600 CE
- Isaac Luria (The Arizal)· 1534 CE–1572 CE
- Rabbi Aharon Binyamin Solnik· 1535 CE–1619 CE
- R. Yisrael Sarug· 1540 CE–1610 CE
- Rabbi Dovid Gans· 1541 CE–1613 CE
- Chaim Vital· 1542 CE–1620 CE
- R. Menachem Azariah of Fano· 1548 CE–1620 CE
- Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz· 1550 CE–1619 CE
- Joshua Falk· 1555 CE–1614 CE
- Rabbi Abraham de Boton· 1560 CE–1605 CE
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Rulers world
- Selim II· 1524 CE–1574 CE
- Bayinnaung· 1516 CE–1581 CE
- Ivan IV the Terrible· 1530 CE–1584 CE
- Oda Nobunaga· 1534 CE–1582 CE
- Túpac Amaru· 1545 CE–1572 CE
- Jiajing Emperor· 1507 CE–1567 CE
- Titu Cusi Yupanqui· –1571 CE
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi· 1537 CE–1598 CE
- Elizabeth I· 1533 CE–1603 CE
- Cosijopii I (Don Juan Cortés Cosijopii)· 1502 CE–1563 CE
- Maharana Pratap· 1540 CE–1597 CE
- Humayun· 1508 CE–1556 CE
- Murad III· 1546 CE–1595 CE
- Suleiman the Magnificent· 1494 CE–1566 CE
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