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	Rabbi Mosheh Isserles (d. 1572) is the doyen of Jewish law for Ashkenazi Jewry. A native of Kraków, he is widely known by the acronym Rema which gave rise to the motto: “''U-venei yisrael yotse’im be-yad'' ''Rema''” – and the children of Israel go out by the hand of Rema, a pun on the biblical verse in Exod. 14:8 where the final word means high hand and is originally spelled with the Hebrew letter ''heh'' at the end, but here spelled with an ''aleph'' to indicate Mosheh Isserles. Rema’s halakhic positions are best known from his annotations to [[https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/44\|''Shulḥan ʻArukh'']] [The Set Table] – the code of Jewish law penned by Rema’s contemporary, Rabbi '''Joseph Karo''' (1488-1575).		Rabbi Mosheh Isserles (d. 1572) is the doyen of Jewish law for Ashkenazi Jewry. A native of Kraków, he is widely known by the acronym Rema which gave rise to the motto: “''U-venei yisrael yotse’im be-yad'' ''Rema''” – and the children of Israel go out by the hand of Rema, a pun on the biblical verse in Exod. 14:8 where the final word means high hand and is originally spelled with the Hebrew letter ''heh'' at the end, but here spelled with an ''aleph'' to indicate Mosheh Isserles. Rema’s halakhic positions are best known from his annotations to [https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/44\|''Shulḥan ʻArukh''] [The Set Table] – the code of Jewish law penned by Rema’s contemporary, Rabbi '''Joseph Karo''' (1488-1575).

	Rema was born in Kazimierz just outside Kraków and journeyed to Lublin to study with Rabbi '''Shalom Shakhna''' (d. 1558). At that time, a debate took place among scholars in Lublin concerning the codification of Jewish law. The issue at hand was whether it was an appropriate and worthy enterprise to write a book of rulings that summarizes the halakhic discourse and establishes clear rules of conduct. The debate in Lublin was occurring at the same time as Rabbi Karo was busy with his codificatory projects, but the two deliberations were independent of each other. Indeed, the first volume of Rabbi Karo’s halakhic work, ''Beit Yosef'' [The House of Joseph], was published in Venice in 1550, while the debate in Lublin preceded that date, before Rema returned to Kraków sometime before 1547.		Rema was born in Kazimierz just outside Kraków and journeyed to Lublin to study with Rabbi '''Shalom Shakhna''' (d. 1558). At that time, a debate took place among scholars in Lublin concerning the codification of Jewish law. The issue at hand was whether it was an appropriate and worthy enterprise to write a book of rulings that summarizes the halakhic discourse and establishes clear rules of conduct. The debate in Lublin was occurring at the same time as Rabbi Karo was busy with his codificatory projects, but the two deliberations were independent of each other. Indeed, the first volume of Rabbi Karo’s halakhic work, ''Beit Yosef'' [The House of Joseph], was published in Venice in 1550, while the debate in Lublin preceded that date, before Rema returned to Kraków sometime before 1547.

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