Israel Bruna

Israel Bruna Ben Hayyim (* 1400 in Brno, † 1480 in Prague) was a Jewish scholar and Posek and in his time the most important rabbinic authority in Germany. He was also known as Mahari Bruna, the Hebrew acronym for " Our Teacher, the Rabbi, Israel Bruna ".

He was born in Brno in Moravia. He studied with the most important Ashkenazi rabbis of his time, Jacob Weil and Israel Isserlein who ordained him. They spoke highly of him: " He was a brilliant student who gave himself completely, body and soul, to the study of the Talmud. " He was then rabbi of his hometown. After the expulsion of the Jews from Brno in 1454, he settled in Regensburg in Bavaria.

In 1474 he was charged the nationally renowned Rabbi Israel Bruna there on an alleged ritual murder. From the resulting detention, he was, despite the instability of the allegations only after an intervention by the Emperor Frederick III. dismissed. Then he left Regensburg and went to Prague to his son, where he died.

Bruna was a supporter of pilpul method.

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  • Israel Bruna Ben Hayyim, jewishencyclopedia.com
  • Rabbi Israel Brunna, chabad.org
  • Mahari Bruna, chaburas.org
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