Samuel Eidels
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Shmuel Eidels (1555 – 1631) ( Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels) was a renowned rabbi and Talmudist famous for his commentary on the Talmud, Chiddushei Halachot. Eidels is also known as Maharsha (, a Hebrew acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi Shmuel Eidels").
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- Jewish leader.name
- Shmuel Eidels
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- File:Maharsha.jpg
- Jewish leader.caption
- Maharsha
- Jewish leader.birth_date
- 1555
- Jewish leader.birth_place
- Kraków, Poland
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Poznań
- Place of death
- Ostroh
- Occupation
- rabbi
- Educated at
- Jagiellonian University
- Religion
- Judaism
- Image
- Maharsha.jpg
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- Samuel Eidels
- date of birth
- 1555-00-00
- date of death
- 1631-01-01
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- Samuel Eidels
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- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- place of burial
- Ostroh
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Shmuel Eidels (1555 – 1631) ( Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels) was a renowned rabbi and Talmudist famous for his commentary on the Talmud, Chiddushei Halachot. Eidels is also known as Maharsha (, a Hebrew acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi Shmuel Eidels").
==Biography== The Maharsha was born in Kraków in Poland. His father, Yehuda, was a Talmudist and both parents were descendants of rabbinic families—his mother Gitel was a cousin of Rabbi Yehuda Loew, the Maharal of Prague, and his father "was a direct descendant of Rabbi Yehuda HaChasid." From early childhood, the Maharsha's remarkable talents were evident. Maharsha studied and was a student of Rabbi Shalom Shachne in his yeshivah. When he came of marriageable age, the Maharsha was offered many prestigious shidduchim (marriage partners), but he rejected them, asserting that he wanted to devote himself solely to Torah study.
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