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Smuel Jafe Sirkis Lublin to: Sirka , daughter of Moshe Jafe and Bath Jitschak Klauber |
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1) R' Joel Sirkis B"ACH, birth 1561 Lublin, died 4 MRT 1640 Krakow 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. to: Baila bath Avraham Hirtskes MeLevov, daughter of Avraham Hirtskes MeLevov and Chana Bath Joel Zinger |