Israel ben Samuel of Shklov
Israel ben Samuel (Yisra’el ben Shemu’el) of Shklov (in present-day Belarus) was among the Talmudists from Shklov to be drawn to the Gaon of Vilna. Israel published the Gaon’s commentaries and wrote some of his own, such as Taklin ḥadtin. In 1808–1809, he and some other of the Gaon’s disciples organized a small migration of Misnagdim to Palestine. He eventually went back to Eastern Europe as an emissary to collect money for impoverished Jews in Palestine. For many years, he served as leader of his community in Safed. His writings there discussed Jewish laws applicable only in the Land of Israel.
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Pe’at ha-shulhan (Edge of the Table)
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Rabbinic Scholarship, 1750–1880
Despite the challenges of the early modern period, rabbinic scholarship flourished in Central and Eastern Europe in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.