Rabbi Moshe ben Avraham of

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was a Galician rabbi; born at Przemysl about 1550; died at Opatow 1606. Surnamed Met (or Mat; , sometimes ) or in the

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Mes. As Rabbi Moshe is best known for his work '' Mateh Moshe'', he is also often personally referred to as the Mateh Moshe.

Biography

After having studied Talmud and rabbinics under his uncle R. Zvi and Shlomo Luria, he became rabbi of

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, where he had a large number of pupils. He retired from this rabbinate and lived privately for a time at

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. He was then called to the rabbinate of Przemysl, and, in 1597, to that of Lubomyl. Toward the end of his life, he became the chief of the community of Opatow and district rabbi of Cracow. He authored the following works: *''Taryag Mitzvot'' (Cracow, 1581), a versification of the

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*'' Mateh Moshe'' (ib. 1590–91), a treatise on the practical ritual laws *''Ho'il Moshe'' (Prague, 1611), a simple and homiletic commentary on the

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, in which he occasionally explains the commentary of

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Some ''

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'' of his are to be found in the ''responsa'' collections of his rabbinical contemporaries.

References

External links

Tradition Online
Mateh Moshe excerpt
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