Meir Wahl

Not to be confused with Meir Katzenellenbogen.

Meir Wahl or Meir Wahl Katzenellenbogen,[1][2] (also known as Meir Shauls[3] and MaHaRaSH[4]) was a Polish rabbi. He was the son of Saul Wahl, who according to legend, was king of Poland for one day.[5]

Meir Wahl
Prince of Poland
Head of House Katzenellenbogen
SpouseHinda HaLevi Horowitz
IssueBaila
HouseKatzenellenbogen
FatherSaul Wahl
ReligionJudaism

At the beginning of his rabbinical career, Wahl was the Av Beit Din at Tykocin, Poland, later moving on to the Av Beit Din position of Brest, Belarus.[3] Saul was integral in the formation of the Council of the Land of Lithuania in 1623, the controlling legal body for the Jews of Lithuania.[3][6]

He married Hinda HaLevi Horowitz, granddaughter of Israel ben Josef and niece of Moses Isserles on her mother's side and his own mother's cousin.[7] Wahl had a daughter named Baila who married Rabbi Yonah Teomim, who were parents to prominent rabbis.[5] Another of his daughters, Nissla Gisela, married Moshe Hakohen Katz, a nephew of Meir Lublin.

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  6. ^ Landman, Isaac (1940). The Universal Jewish encyclopedia ...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times, Volume 2. The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. p. 525.
  7. ^ "Hinda Halevi Katzenellenbogen". geni_family_tree. 1570. Retrieved 2023-08-10.