Avraham Gombiner and Related Topics

Shulchan Aruch

Most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Judaism.

Magen Avraham ("Abraham's shield") by Rabbi Avraham Gombiner (on Orach Chayim)

David HaLevi Segal

David ha-Levi Segal (c.

The Turei Zahav (טורי זהב - "Rows of Gold"), an indispensable commentary on Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chayim), was re-published by Shabbethai Bass in Dyhernfurth in 1692, this time together with the Magen Abraham by Abraham Abele Gumbiner.

Orach Chayim

Section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of Halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim.

Magen Avraham - by Rabbi Avraham Gombiner

The first page of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a. The center column contains the Talmud text, beginning with a section of Mishnah. The Gemara begins 14 lines down with the abbreviation גמ (gimmel-mem) in larger type. Mishnah and Gemara sections alternate throughout the Talmud. The blocks of text on either side are the Rashi and Tosafot commentaries, printed in Rashi script. Other notes and cross references are in the margins.

Samuel Loew

Talmudist and Halakhist, best known for his work Machazit HaShekel.

An extensive subcommentary on Abraham Abele Gombiner’s Magen Abraham on Shulhan Aruk, Oraḥ Ḥayyim (Vienna, 1807-1808; 2d ed. 1817; several times reprinted)

Kalisz

City in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 99,106 residents .

Polish King Sigismund II Augustus confirms the old privileges of Kalisz, 1552

Execution of a Polish priest by the Germans in 1939

Memorial at the site of a massacre of 150 Poles in Winiary

Old Town with the Collegiate Basillica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the left

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in the Old Town

Arena Kalisz, the city's main indoor hall, home venue of the MKS Kalisz men's handball team and Calisia Kalisz women's volleyball team

Stanisław Wojciechowski, president of Poland (1922-1926)

Avraham Gombiner (1635–1682), Jewish rabbi and scholar

Partnership minyan

Partnership minyan (pl.

These opinions rely on earlier authorities including the Magen Avraham.

Gąbin

Small town in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,230 inhabitants .

Synagogue, destroyed by the Germans during World War II. Photo taken in 1833

Birthplace of Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, now a museum

Abraham Abele Gombiner (c. 1635–5 October 1682), Rabbi and author of "Magen Avraham"

David Solomon Eibenschutz

Born in Ozeriany, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) in 1755.

The first part contains a commentary on the Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, with comments on David ben Samuel's Turei Zahav and Abraham Abele Gumbiner's Magen Avrohom; at the end of this part is added the plan of the Temple as described by Ezekiel (Mohilev, 1818, and frequently reprinted).

Yalkut Shimoni

Aggadic compilation on the books of the Hebrew Bible.

To this edition is appended a brief commentary by Abraham Abele Gumbiner of Kalisz entitled Zayit Ra'anan.

Shlomo Zemach

Israeli author, agriculturalist and early Zionist pioneer.

Zemach was born in 1886 in Płońsk, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, and was a descendant of Rabbi Avraham Gombiner (known as the "Magen Avraham") and his descendant, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch HaLevi of Plonsk (known as the "Plant (Zemach) of Avraham", from where Zemach's surname originates).