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Shakna, Shalom
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Polish Talmudist; born about 1510; died at Lublin Oct. 29, 1558. He was a pupil of Jacob Pollak, founder of the method of Talmudic study known as the PILPUL. By the year 1528 he had already become famous as a teacher, and hundreds flocked to Lublin to receive instruction at his yeshibah. Many of his pupils became recognized rabbinical authorities, among them being: MosesIsserles of Cracow (Shakna's son-in-law); Moses Heilprin, author of "Zikron Mosheh"; Solomon ben Judah, rabbi of Lublin; and Ḥayyim ben Bezaleel, rabbi at Friedberg.
Shakna on his death-bed, from motives of extreme modesty, enjoined his son R. Israel from printing any of his (Shakna's) manuscripts. One of his writings, however, namely, the treatise "Pesaḳim be-'Inyan Ḳiddushin," was edited by Moses, son of the physician Samuel (Cracow, 1540 ?).
- Grätz, Gesch. 3d ed., 9:436;
- Fuenn, Ḳiryah Ne'emanah, p. 52;
- B. Friedberg, Neue auf dem Jüdischen Friedhof in Krakau Aufgefundene Grabschriften, p. 4;
- idem, Gesch. der Hebräischen Typographie in Krakau, p. 6;
- Nissenbaum, Le-Ḳorot ha-Yehudim be-Lublin, p. 18;
- Halberstam, in Kobak's Jeschurun, 5:194.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Shakna, Shalom'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/s/shakna-shalom.html. 1901.
