Rabbi Ya’akov Gesundheit, chief rabbi of Warsaw, b. 1815, d. 1879. He is often referred to by the name of his most famous work, the Tiferet Ya’akov, which began as a commentary to the Sulḥan Aruk, later finished a treatise on Massekhet Gittin and Massekhet Ḥullin.
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