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MOSES BEN ISRAEL ISSERLES (c. 1520-1572)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 886 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOSES
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BEN
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ISRAEL
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ISSERLES (c. 1520-1572)  , known as REMA, was
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born at
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Cracow and died there in 1572 . He wrote commentaries on the Zohar, the "
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Bible of the Kabbalists," but is best known as the critic and expander of the Shulhan Aruch of
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Joseph
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Qaro (
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Caro)(q.v.) . His
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chief halakhic (legal)
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works were Darke Moshe and Mappdh . Qaro, a Sephardic (
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Spanish)
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Jew, in his
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Code neglected Ashkenazic (
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German) customs . These deficiencies
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Isserles supplied, and the notes of Rema are now included in all
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editions of Qaro's Code .

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