NameMaier b’ Jakov Schiff kats
Birth1605, D, Frankfurt
Death2 Mar 1641, D, Frankfurt
BurialFrankfurt (Battonnstrasse) (ffb-0163)
Spouses
Birthabt 1605, D, ?
Death28 Oct 1673, D, Frankfurt
BurialFrankfurt (Battonnstrasse) (ffb-2116)
Notes for Maier b’ Jakov Schiff kats
Gaon — Rabbi ‘ha-Gadol’ — “Der Hohepriester, unser Lehrer und unser Meister……der grosse Gelehrte, ausgezeicnet in Scharfsinn….” [cf Epidat]
Most celebrated Talmud scholar of his time, who was appointed Rabbi at age 17.
[ET:] He was born in 1605 — ca 1625 he was Rabbi in Fulda, 1635 in Schmalkalden — he died during a visit to Frankfurt, just when the kehilla of Prague had chosen him as their Rabbi.
3 children:
# Zanwel b’ Maier k”ts z Schiff (d. 8.4..1652; ffb-2158), unmarried [?] “…junger Herr,….zart an Jahren….”
# Reizle/Rösle b’ Maier Schiff k”ts (d. 20.9.1659) >>
# “die alte” Hindlen b’ Maier Schiff k”ts (d. 28.5.1709) >>