Meshullam Egra

Meshullam Egra
Personal life
Born	c. 1752 Buczacz, Galicia
Died	(1801-09-25)September 25, 1801 Presburg
Religious life
Religion	Judaism

Moses Meshullam ben Samson Egra (Hebrew: משה משולם בן שמשון איגרא; c. 1752 – September 25, 1801)[1] was Galician rabbi.

Biography

Egra was born in Buczacz, Galicia,[1] but was living in Brody by the age of nine. At about that age he delivered a casuistic homily in the large synagogue of Brody, and had a discussion with its rabbi, Isaac Hurwitz, whose son-in-law he became. He was a contemporary of Sender Margoliouth [he], with whom he discussed ritual laws, and the master of Jacob Lissa. Egra was at first rabbi of Tusmenetz, later becoming rabbi of Presburg. He wrote She'elot u-Teshubot RaMA (Czernowitz, 1862), and an unpublished work on Maimonides.[2]

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Kohler, Kaufmann; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Egra, Meshullam ben Samson". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 55.

1. Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Igra, Meshullam (Moses) ben Samson". Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
2.  Kohler, Kaufmann; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Egra, Meshullam ben Samson". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 55.