Shu"t Ma'asas Binyamin
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Ma'asas Binyamin
Ma'asas Binyamin
1535 CE–1619 CE · Acharonim · Grodno (Belarus)
Rabbi Benjamin Aaron Solnik (Slonik), known by the title of his responsa collection, Masat Binyamin, was a Polish halachic authority active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Born around 1550, most likely in Grodno, he first studied there under Nathan Nata Shapiro before learning from several of the era's leading halachic scholars, among them Solomon Luria (the Maharshal), Moses Isserles (the Rema), and Solomon of Lublin. He held rabbinic posts in Silesia and later in Podhajce, and his name appears among the signatories of a 1590 ordinance of the Council of the Four Lands. Besides his Hebrew responsa, he composed Seder Mitzvot Nashim, a Yiddish guide to religious practice for women. His Masat Binyamin, printed at Krakow in 1633 after his death, gathers 112 responsa often cited by later authorities. He died around 1619.
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Grodno (Belarus)Western Russia / Lithuania
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Grodno (Hrodna), a city in western Belarus near the Lithuanian and Polish borders, had a large Jewish community and was a noted center of Lithuanian Torah learning. Until 1939 it was home to the Sha'ar HaTorah yeshiva headed by Rabbi Shimon Shkop, one of the most influential roshei yeshiva of the Lithuanian world, whose analytical method shaped a generation; the yeshiva fled to Vilna at the Soviet occupation while Shkop, too ill to travel, died in Grodno.
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