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1. Joel Serkes

   Person · 1561–1640 · Author, Rabbi, Rabbiner · Lublin · 7 sources

   (1561–1640), one of the foremost Talmudic scholars and halakhists of Poland, better known by the acronym Baḥ, after the abbreviation of his Bayit ḥadash commentary. Sirkes was born in Lublin to a distinguished rabbinic f…

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2. Lublin, Mē'îr Ben-Gedalyā

   Person · 1558–1616 · Author, Rabbi, Rabbiner · Lublin · 6 sources

   (1558–1616), rabbinical scholar and authority. Me’ir ben Gedalyah of Lublin, known as Maharam (an acronym for “Our teacher, the Rabbi Me’ir”) or Maharam of Lublin, was a major figure in the Golden Era of Torah study in P…

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3. Spira, Nathan Nata ben Solomon

   Person · 1585–1633 · Author, Rabbi, Rabbiner · Lublin · 6 sources

   (1585–1633), rabbi, preacher, and kabbalist. Natan Note Spira (also Natan Nata Shapira) was born to a rabbinical family and was named after his grandfather, a rabbi in Grodno who was the author of Mavo she‘arim (1575) an…

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4. Hešel, Avrāhām Yĕhôšuaʿ Ben-Yaʿăqōv

   Person · 1595–1663 · Lublin · 4 sources

   (1596–1663), rabbi and halakhic authority in Poland–Lithuania. Born in Brest Litovsk, Avraham Yehoshu‘a Heshel moved with his father to Lublin when the latter was appointed rabbi of the community and head of the yeshiva.…

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