Joshua Falk

Yehoshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk (1555 – 29 March 1614) was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Drisha and Prisha commentaries on the Arba'ah Turim as well as Sefer Me'irat Enayim (סמ"ע) on Shulkhan Arukh. His name also occurs as the Hebrew acronymsרפ"כ ("RaFaC") ("Rabbi Falk Cohen"), מהרו"כ ("Ma-HaRWaC") ("Morenu ha-Rav Walk Cohen"), and מהר"י כ"ץ (MaHaRY KTzMorenu ha-Rav Joshua Katz).

He was a pupil of his relative Moses Isserles and of Solomon Luria, and became the head of the yeshiva of Lemberg. Many celebrated rabbis were his pupils, among them being Joshua Höschel ben Joseph of Kraków, the author of Maginei Shlomo. Falk was a great authority on rabbinical matters. At the meeting of the Council of Four Lands in 1607, during the Kremenetz fair, many of his proposals were approved.

In 1611 Falk and Enoch Hendel ben Shemariah issued a bill of divorce at Vienna which occasioned lengthy discussions among the celebrated rabbis of the time, including Meir Lublin and Mordecai Yoffe.^[1] He was Rosh Yeshiva in Lemberg and served on the Council of Four Lands.

Falk was opposed to the reliance on law codes to the exclusion of study of the original sources. Towards this end he composed a series of commentaries on the most influential codes, Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's Tur and Rabbi Joseph Karo's Shulkhan Arukh. He spent his early life composing extensive analytical commentaries on the Talmud, which were later lost in a fire.

Falk died at Lemberg, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth on 29 March 1614.

Beit Yisrael es un comentario doble sobre el Tur , compuesto por la Perishah , una explicación directa, y la Derishah , un análisis más profundo de problemas específicos. La Perishah aclara las decisiones del Tur , rastreándolas hasta sus fuentes en el Talmud y los Rishonim . La Derishah se dedica al análisis exhaustivo y la comparación de las diversas interpretaciones y decisiones propuestas por diferentes autoridades talmúdicas.

El rabino Falk también escribió:

• Sefer Me'irat Einayim , un comentario a la sección Choshen Mishpat del Shulkhan Arukh , que contiene todas las decisiones de los Rishonim , con un índice de sus fuentes.
• Sefer ha-Hosafah , un suplemento al Darhkei Mosheh de Moisés Isserles , impreso con el Choshen Mishpat , Dyhernfurth , 1796;
• Kontres 'al Diney Ribbit , un discurso sobre las leyes relativas a la prohibición de la usura , seguido de algunas takkanot (ordenanzas de los rabinos), Sulzbach , 1692;
• Novelas sobre tratados talmúdicos.

•  Este artículo incorpora texto de una publicación que ahora es de dominio público : Singer, Isidore ; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "FALK, JOSHUA BEN ALEXANDER HA-KOHEN" . The Jewish Encyclopedia . Nueva York: Funk & Wagnalls.   Su bibliografía:
• Azulai , Shem ha-Gedolim, i.50, 70;
• Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi , Dizionario, i.116;
• Solomon Buber , Toledot Anshe Shem, No. 197.

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