Meshullam Egra


Moses Meshullam ben Samson Egra was Galician rabbi.

Biography

Egra was born in Buczacz, Galicia, but was living in Brody by the age of nine. At about that age he delivered a casuistic homily in the large synagogue of Brody, and had a discussion with its rabbi, Isaac Hurwitz, whose son-in-law he became. He was a contemporary of, with whom he discussed ritual laws, and the master of Jacob Lissa. Egra was at first rabbi of Tusmenetz, later becoming rabbi of Presburg. He wrote She'elot u-Teshubot RaMA, and an unpublished work on Maimonides.