Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Leib of Cracow

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Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Leib (18th century) (Hebrew: זכריה מנדל בן אריה ליב) was a Polish Talmudist, native of Cracow, and in later life chief rabbi and head of the yeshibah at Belz, Galicia. He was the author of Be'er Heṭeb (alternatively, Beer Haitiv), a well-known commentary on the Shulhan Aruk, Yoreh De'ah, and Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ (first edition of the first part, Amsterdam, 1754; of the second, ib. 1764); the work is principally a compendium of the Sifte Kohen and Ṭure Zahab.

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• Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii., s.v. Be'er Heṭeb;
• Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 318.

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• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.