Isaac Tyrnau

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Rabbi Isaac Tyrnau is best known as author of Sefer Minhagim (Hebrew: "Book of Customs"). He was active in Hungary in the late 1400s and early 1500s, and attended yeshiva with the Maharil (Yaakov Moelin).

His Sefer Minhagim is a compendium of halachot ("Jewish laws") and minhagim ("customs") of the Ashkenazi Jews, for the whole year. This work also contains notes from an anonymous Rabbi from Hungary which were written prior to the first edition of this sefer that came out in 1566, which already contained these notes. This work is noted as the first to discuss in detail the idea of the Yahrzeit (the commemoration of the anniversary of a death). It was translated into German in 1590, and often reprinted. It also contains an appendix on morals entitled Orhot Hayyim. Rabbi Moelin's Minhagim, also codifying the practices of German Jewry, eventually supplanted Rabbi Tyrnau's work.

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