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Name
  
Yaakov Reischer

Died
  
1733

Yaakov ben Yoseph Reischer (Bechofen) (1661-1733) was an Austrian rabbi and halakhist born at Prague.

Biography

He was the son of R. Joseph, author of Gib'ot 'Olam, and a pupil of R. Simon Spira of Prague, who gave him in marriage the daughter of his son Benjamin Wolf. Reischer was dayyan at Prague, whence he was called to the rabbinate of Rzeszow in Galicia, deriving his name Reischer from that city, which is known as Reische among the Jews. He was subsequently called to the rabbinate of Ansbach, and then occupied a similar position at Worms, from 1713 to 1719, when he went to Metz, officiating there until his death Feb. 1733. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Metz.

Reischer was the author of the following works:

  • Minhat Ya'akob (Prague, 1689 et seq.), commentary on the Torat ha-Hattat of Moses Isserles, with many refutations and amplifications
  • Torat ha-Shelamim, commentary on the Yoreh De'ah, Hilkot "Niddah", and on the Kontres ha-Sefekot of Shabbethai ha-Kohen, with an appendix containing eighteen responsa on various subjects (printed as the second part of the Minhat Ya'akob, ib. 1689 et seq.)
  • Hok Ya'akob, commentary on Orah Hayyim, Hilkot "Pesah", first printed with the Shulhan Aruk, Orah Hayyim (Dessau, 1696)
  • Soletle-Minhah, supplements to the Minhat Ya'akob and the Torat ha-Shelamim, first printed with the Hok Ya'akob (ib. 1696)
  • Iyyun Ya'akob (Wilmersdorf, 1729), commentary on the En Ya'akob
  • Shebut Ya'akob, responsa and decisions in three parts
    1. (Halle, 1709), with the appendix Pe'er Ya'akob, containing novellae on the treatises Berakot, Baba Kamma, and Gittin
    2. (Offenbach, 1719), treatises on the rules "miggo" and "sefek sefeka"
    3. (Metz, 1789), containing also his Lo Hibbit Awen be-Ya'akob, a reply to the attacks of contemporary rabbis upon his Minhat Ya'akob and Torat ha-Shelamim

    References

    Yaakov Reischer Wikipedia
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