Meir Wahl or Meir Wahl Katzenellenbogen,[1][2] (also known as Meir Shauls[3] and MaHaRaSH[4]) was a Polish rabbi. He was the son of Saul Wahl, who according to legend, was king of Poland for one day.[5]
| Meir Wahl | |
|---|---|
| Prince of Poland Head of House Katzenellenbogen | |
| Spouse | Hinda HaLevi Horowitz |
| Issue | Baila |
| House | Katzenellenbogen |
| Father | Saul Wahl |
| Religion | Judaism |
At the beginning of his rabbinical career, Wahl was the Av Beit Din at Tykocin, Poland, later moving on to the Av Beit Din position of Brest, Belarus.[3] Saul was integral in the formation of the Council of the Land of Lithuania in 1623, the controlling legal body for the Jews of Lithuania.[3][6]
He married Hinda HaLevi Horowitz, granddaughter of Israel ben Josef and niece of Moses Isserles on her mother's side and his own mother's cousin.[7] Wahl had a daughter named Baila who married Rabbi Yonah Teomim, who were parents to prominent rabbis.[5] Another of his daughters, Nissla Gisela, married Moshe Hakohen Katz, a nephew of Meir Lublin.
References
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- ^ a b c Rosenstein, Neil (1990). The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and the Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th-20th century, Volume 1. CIS Publishers. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-9610578-4-8.
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- ^ a b Goldwurm, Hersh (1989). The Early Acharonim: Biographical Sketches of the Prominent Early Rabbinic Sages and Leaders from the Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries. Mesorah Publications. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-89906-488-8.
- ^ Landman, Isaac (1940). The Universal Jewish encyclopedia ...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times, Volume 2. The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. p. 525.
- ^ "Hinda Halevi Katzenellenbogen". geni_family_tree. 1570. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
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