Rabbi Yechezkel Landau was born in Apta, Poland, in 1713, and died in Prague in 1793.  He was a great talmudic scholar, whose responsa (answers to questions) which he called Noda BiYehuda, have great clarity and are mostly accepted today as halachic (Jewish legal) law.  The name Noda BiYehuda comes from the beginning of Psalm … Continue reading The Noda BiYehuda (Rabbi Yechekel Landau) and British Chief Rabbi David Tevele Schiff. Noda BiYehuda II, Sadlikov, 1833. →