Moses Margolies or Moshe ben Shimon Margalit ( he, משה מרגלית; c. 1715 in Kėdainiai, Lithuania – 1781 in

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, then a private town of the Polish Crown) was a Lithuanian Jewish rabbi and a commentator on the

Jerusalem Talmud The Jerusalem Talmud ( he, תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי, translit=Talmud Yerushalmi, often for short), also known as the Palestinian Talmud or Talmud of the Land of Israel, is a collection of rabbinic notes on the second-century ...

Works

Margolies is best known as the author of a dual commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud, which is printed in the standard

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and Szatmár editions of the text. His general glosses, which he called by the name of ''Pnei Moshe'' (the face of Moses), was intended to make the often choppy text of the Jerusalem Talmud easier to read. His second commentary, which he called ''Mareh Panim'' (showing of face), is meant to take up more complex legal issues and often surveys the

Babylonian Talmud The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cent ...

and the corpus of post-Talmudic law and commentary as well. This format of two commentaries, simple and complex, was meant to mimic the

Rashi Shlomo Yitzchaki ( he, רבי שלמה יצחקי; la, Salomon Isaacides; french: Salomon de Troyes, 22 February 1040 – 13 July 1105), today generally known by the acronym Rashi (see below), was a medieval French rabbi and author of a compre ...

and

Tosafot The Tosafot, Tosafos or Tosfot ( he, תוספות) are medieval commentaries on the Talmud. They take the form of critical and explanatory glosses, printed, in almost all Talmud editions, on the outer margin and opposite Rashi's notes. The auth ...

commentaries on the

. This style became popular among commentators on the Jerusalem Talmud and is used by Margolies' contemporary, Rabbi David Fränkel as well as by Rabbi Jacob David Wilovsky, among others.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Margolies, Moses 1710s births 1780 deaths 18th-century Lithuanian rabbis Talmudists Authors of works on the Jerusalem Talmud Hebrew-language writers Rabbis from Kėdainiai