Meshullam Egra
Moses Meshullam ben Samson Egra (Hebrew: משה משולם בן שמשון איגרא; c. 1752 – September 25, 1801)[1] was Galician rabbi.
Meshullam Egra | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | c. 1752 |
| Died | September 25, 1801 |
| Religion | Judaism |
Biography
Egra was born in Buczacz, Galicia,[1] but was living in Brody by the age of nine. At about that age he delivered a casuistic homily in the large synagogue of Brody, and had a discussion with its rabbi, Isaac Hurwitz, whose son-in-law he became. He was a contemporary of Sender Margoliouth, with whom he discussed ritual laws, and the master of Jacob Lissa. Egra was at first rabbi of Tusmenetz, later becoming rabbi of Presburg. He wrote She'elot u-Teshubot RaMA (Czernowitz, 1862), and an unpublished work on Maimonides.[2]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Kohler, Kaufmann; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Egra, Meshullam ben Samson". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 55.
- Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Igra, Meshullam (Moses) ben Samson". Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- Kohler, Kaufmann; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Egra, Meshullam ben Samson". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 55.