Person · 5375–5430 AM · 1615 CE — 1670 CE
Chelkat Mechokek—Rabbi Moshe Lima רבי משה לימא
the chief expositor of the marriage laws of the Shulchan Aruch
Rabbi of Brisk and Slonim, from 1650 head of the court of Vilna. A contemporary of the Shach; with the author of the Beit Shmuel he drew up a treatise on freeing agunot.
He wrote so densely that the printers had to add explanations; the work was published after his death, by his son, in 1670. The years of his life diverge: about 1615–1670 by one reading, 1605–1658 by another; we set the first and name the second.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- Chelkat Mechokek on Even ha-Ezer — the exposition of the marriage laws that entered the margins of the Shulchan Aruch
Scholarship
- The standard rabbinic reference works and encyclopedias — the years and their divergence; the seats of Brisk and Vilna
Basis: Talmud and midrash.