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Rabbi Moïse Isserles (le Rema)

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Region: Pologne

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Chief rabbi of Kraków, he completed Joseph Caro's Shulhan Arukh with his glosses (Mappah, "the tablecloth") reflecting Ashkenazi customs. Without the Rema, Caro's code would have remained a Sephardic work; with him, it became the universal code of Judaism.

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