Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk was an early 19th-century scholar and rabbinic authority, known for his celebrated Talmud commentary, Penei Yehoshua. At the age of 22, Falk was trapped as the result of an explosion that killed his wife, child and mother. He vowed that if he made it out alive, he would intensify his study of the Talmud and its commentators, and the Penei Yehoshua was a result of the fulfillment of that promise. Falk subsequently remarried and had more children. He served as rabbi in several communities, including Lemberg, Berlin, Metz, and Frankfurt. Falk’s involvement in the controversy between Jacob Emden and Jonathan Eybeschutz compelled him to leave the pulpit in Frankfurt, and he spent several years wandering from place to place.
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