Acharonim1660–1712Prague
Rabbi Eliyah Shapira (the Eliyah Rabbah)
Halakha, halakhic ruling and preaching
- The Eliyah Rabbah
- The Eliyah Zuta
- The Levushim
- Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe
- Magen Avraham
- Mishnah Berurah
- Ashkenazi ruling
- Prague
- The Shulchan Arukh
Halakha, halakhic ruling and preaching
Ruling through commentary: the Eliyah Rabbah was written on the order of the Levush of Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe and became one of the foundational books of Ashkenazi halakhic ruling. The Mishnah Berurah cites it constantly as a source of its halakhic rulings.
A judge, head of a yeshiva and preacher in Prague, born there around 1660, who died in 1712 in his father’s lifetime. He studied with his grandfather, Rabbi Aharon Shimon of Prague, and in Poland with the author of the Magen Avraham. He wrote Eliyah Zuta and Eliyah Rabbah, commentaries on the Orach Chaim part of the Levush books of Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe; both commentaries are considered foundational books of Ashkenazi halakhic ruling.
includes 4 inspiration linksThe generations follow the Rambam’s introduction to the Mishneh Torah. A dashed line is inspiration, not direct transmission.