Joel Sirkis

Joel Sirkis
Grave of Joel Sirkis
Title	HaBach (הב׳׳ח)
Personal
Born	Joel Sirkes c. 1561 Lublin, Poland
Died	March 14, 1640 Kraków, Poland
Religion	Judaism
Spouse	Baila
Children	Esther Sirkis, Samuel Tzvi Hersch Sirkis, Rivka Sirkis, Judab Leib Sirkis, Menachem Sirkis, Kalisch Sirkis, Abraham Sirkis
Parents	Samuel Sirkis (father) Sarah Jaffe (mother)
Main work	Bayit Chadash, Teshuvot ha-Bach
Buried	Remah Cemetery
Dynasty	Jaffe

Joel ben Samuel Sirkis (Hebrew: רבי יואל בן שמואל סירקיש; born 1561 - March 14, 1640) also known as the Bach (an abbreviation of his magnum opus BAyit CHadash), was a prominent Ashkenazi posek and halakhist, who lived in Central Europe and held rabbinical positions in Belz, Brest-Litovsk and Kraków, and is considered to be one of the greatest Talmudic scholars of Poland. He is known for his liberal rulings in his responsum in which he challenges the rabbinic status quo.^[1]