Joshua Falk

Joshua Falk was born in Kraków, where he studied with his cousin Moses Isserles. Later he studied with Solomon Luria in Lublin. Falk served as a rabbi in Ludmir and head of its yeshiva for twenty-five years. He was involved with the Council of the Four Lands and chaired the Lublin Council of 1607. Falk’s major work, Bet Yisra’el (House of Israel), is a commentary on Jacob ben Asher’s Arba‘ turim. Me’irat ‘enayim (Light of the Eyes) is a commentary to the Ḥoshen mishpat portion of the Shulḥan ‘arukh. Other works were lost by fire during his lifetime and others were lost after his death.