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מהר"ם מינץ

Maharam Mintz

Maharam Mintz was a Rishon whose halachic rulings are cited in later works such as Chochmat Adam.

Biography

Maharam Mintz (Moses Münz) Halevi was a Rishon, a halachic authority whose rulings are brought in later works of Jewish law. The supplied passages show him cited within the Chochmat Adam across a range of practical halachic matters.

The rulings attributed to him touch on the laws of tzedakah — including how much charity collectors may accept from women and minors, lest the gift exceed what a husband or father would sanction, and the treatment of one who pledges money to charity to bind himself against some act. He is also brought in connection with the laws of marriage and the mitzvah of peru u’revu, and with the laws of bedikah and niddah, where his words bear on the careful examination involved. These citations reflect a sage whose practical guidance in everyday observance was preserved and relied upon by later halachic authorities.

רבי משה מינץ בן רבי יצחק הלוי מינץ, מכונה המהר"ם מינץ היה ממנהיגי יהדות אשכנז במאה ה-15, שימש כרב בקהילות: וירצבורג, מיינץ, אולם, לנדא, במברג, נירנברג ופוזן. חיבר את שו"ת מהר"ם מינץ.

Moses ben Isaac ha-Levi Minz was a German rabbi, a disciple of R. Yaakov Weil and contemporary of Israel Isserlein, whom he frequently consulted. He was successively rabbi at Mainz, Landau, Bamberg, and Posen. He is one of the first known Jewish Scholars to have officiated as Rav of a city in Poland.

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Chochmat Adam חׇכְמַת אָדָם