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Mosheh ben Yeshayah Menaḥem Bachrach
Mosheh ben Yeshayah Menaḥem Bachrach (also known as Moses Mendels; 1574–1641), was a talmudic scholar and av bet din in Szydlow, Wlodzimierz, Krakow, Frankfurt, Prague, and ultimately, Posen. He participated in the sessions of the Council of the Four Lands in Yaroslav (1614) and in Lublin (1639). Jacob Reischer in his Shevut Ya'akov refers to him as an outstanding talmudic scholar. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bachrach-moses-ben-isaiah-menahemפזמון בשעת המגפה ח״ו | Pizmon for a time of plague (God forbid!), by Rabbi Moses Mendels (ca. early 17th c.)
Contributed on: 11 Sep 2022 by ❧
This seliḥah, “Moshel ba-Elyonim Atah Yadata,” was written by Rabbi Mosheh ben Yeshayah Menaḥem Bachrach during an epidemic. It is included in the Seliḥot of Posen, Krakow, Prague, Worms, and Alsace. The text here was transcribed from the Siddur Kol Bo, vol. 3 (1923), p. 33. . . .
