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R' Joel Sirkis B"ACH, birth 1561 Lublin, died 4 MRT 1640 Krakow, son of Smuel Jafe Sirkis and Sirka
Sirkis was born in Lublin in 1561. At age fourteen he went to the yeshiva of R. Naftali Zvi Hirsch Schor, a leading student of R. Moses Isserles. After remaining there some time he went to Brest-Litovsk, where he attended the yeshiva of Rabbi Phoe bus. While still a youth he was invited to the rabbinate of Pruzhany, near Slonim. Later he occupied the rabbinates of Lukow, Lublin, Medzyboz, Belz, Szydlowka, and finally Brest-Litovsk and Krakow, succeeding in each of the two last-mentioned pla ces his teacher R. Phoebus.

"The Bach" was an adherent of the Kabbalah and an opponent of pilpul. He was also critical of those who relied solely on the Shulchan Aruch for halachic decisions, rather than on the Talmud and the Geonim. He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Davi d HaLevi Segal, who frequently refers to him in Turei Zahav, his commentary on the Shulchan Aruch. Rabbi Sirkis died in Krakow in 1640.
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Baila bath Avraham Hirtskes MeLevov, daughter of Avraham Hirtskes MeLevov and Chana Bath Joel Zinger
1) Esther Sirkis, birth 1582 Cracow to:
R' Judah Aryeh Leib Zelkel Ashkenazi, occupation: Dayan Hagadol of Cracow
2) Y. Sirkis to:
Lob Hirsch Pess Pass
3) Shmuel Zvi Hirsch Naftali Sirkis-Yaffe to:
Rikla Schor
4) Abraham Serkes
5) Shmuel Zvi Hirsch Naftali Sirkis, birth 1585 Cracow
6) Rivka Bat Joel Sirkis, birth 1586, died 1649 to:
Raw David Halevi Toerei Zahav T"AZ, birth 1586 Ludmir, died 1667, son of Smuel Halevi and Chana bath Jitschak
7) Bat Joel Sirkis to:
Jakob Ish Tam ben Elhanan
8) Bat Joel Sirkis to:
Yehuda Zelki Halevi
9) Yehuda Leib Sirkis, birth 1592 Cracow
10) Menachem Mann Sirkis Mi Brod
11) Kalisch
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