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that if he got out alive, he would write a Sefer. He was saved, and thereafter wrote the
Pnei Yehoshua. He married a second wife, Toba, with whom he had four sons and at
least two daughters.
He was appointed to the rabbinate of Tarlow and Lisko, small towns in Galicia. In 1717 he
replaced Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi in the Chief Rabbinate of Lemberg. Later, in 1731, he was
appointed to a rabbinic position in Berlin. Having displeased Veitel-Heine Ephraim, one
of the most influential leaders of the community, by rendering a judgment against him,
he was compelled to resign at the end of his term of office in 1734. After having been
rabbi of Metz for seven years, he became Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt-am-Main, but the
unfavorable attitude of the local authorities toward the Jews, and the fact that the
community was divided by controversies, made his position there very precarious.
Soon afterward, a quarrel between Rabbis Yaakov Emden and Yonatan Eybeschütz broke
out. Falk strongly opposed Eybeschütz, and was ultimately compelled to leave Frankfurt in
1750, due to the strong support Eybeschütz had there. He wandered from town to town until
he came to Worms, where he remained for some years. He was recalled to Frankfurt, but
his enemies prevented him from preaching in the synagogue, and he left the city a second
time. Rabbi Falk later relocated from Worms to Offenbach, where he died on the 14 Shevat
in 1756. He was laid to rest in Frankfurt and, although he requested that no eulogy should
be said after his death, he was eulogized by the Noda B9Yehuda, Rabbi Yechezkel Landau.
Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua was one of the greatest Gemara scholars of his time and his
sefer of commentary and novellae on the Gemara, Pnei Yehoshua, is one of the classic
works of the era of Acharonim. It remains an important sefer in the study of Gemara to
this day.
He wrote Pnei Yehoshua in four parts. Two of them were published in Frankfurt in 1752;
the third, with his Pesak Beis-Din Chadash, and fourth (which, in addition to Gemara
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posthumously in Fürth in 1766 and 1780 respectively. Rabbi Falk mentions writing a
commentary on the Chumash, but it was never published.
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QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT & STUDY
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