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Joshua Falk

Not to be confused with Jacob Joshua Falk.
"Drisha" redirects here. For the center for advanced Talmudic studies for women, see Drisha Institute.
Woman at the tombstone of Joshua Falk in the Old Jewish cemetery in Lwow (1920s).
The American Israelite describes the scholarship of "Bella Cohen" (Bayla Falk), wife of Joshua Falk

Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk (1555 – 29 March 1614) was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Drisha and Prisha commentaries on the Arba'ah Turim as well as Sefer Me'irat Enayim (סמ"ע) on Shulkhan Arukh. His name also occurs as the Hebrew acronyms רפ"כ ("RaFaC") ("Rabbi Falk Cohen"), מהרו"כ ("Ma-HaRWaC") ("Morenu ha-Rav Walk Cohen"), and מהר"י כ"ץ (MaHaRY KTz Morenu ha-Rav Joshua Katz).


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Jehoschua Falk German יהושע פלק כץ HE Yosua Falk ID יהושע פלק כ"ץ YI

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