Gevurat Anashimגבורת אנשים
Vilna (Vilnius) · 1656
שך
Shach
Shach
1621 CE–1662 CE · Acharonim · Tykotzin
Shabbatai HaKohen, known as the Shach (an acronym for Siftei Kohen—his glosses on the Shulchan Aruch), was a leading Jewish legalist and commentator of 17th-century Poland and Lithuania. Active primarily in Lublin and Vilna, he became renowned for his meticulous halakhic analysis and his monumental supercommentary on the Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Joseph Karo, which sought to harmonize Ashkenazi and Sephardi legal traditions. His glosses—the Siftei Kohen on Yoreh Deah and Choshen Mishpat—became standard references in Jewish legal study and are printed alongside the Shulchan Aruch in most editions (his Nekudot HaKesef is a separate work, his critique of the Taz). The Shach was influential in establishing rigorous standards of textual criticism and logical argumentation in halakhic discourse.
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Tykotzin
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Rabbi Yehoshua Höschel ben Yosef led the Tykotzin yeshiva that he joined as a student.
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Bach, Avraham Yehoshua Heschel, Menachem Mendel Krochmal, Sha'ar Ephraim
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Works(3)
Siftei Kohen on Shulchan Arukh, Choshen Mishpatשפתי כהן על שולחן ערוך חושן משפט
Vilna (Vilnius) · 1646
Siftei Kohen on Shulchan Arukh, Yoreh De'ahשפתי כהן על שולחן ערוך יורה דעה
Vilna (Vilnius) · 1646