Mateh Moshe

{{Short description|1591 halakhic work by Moshe Met}}

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| author = Rabbi Moshe Met, Moshe ben Avraham of Przemyśl

| period = 1591

| language = Hebrew

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Mateh Moshe ({{Langx|he| מטה משה}}, "Staff of Moses") is a highly cited halakhic (legal) work by Rabbi Moshe Met, Moshe ben Avraham of Przemyśl; it contains, also, moralistic aggadic teachings.

As Rabbi Moshe is best known for this work, he is often referred to as "the Mateh Moshe".

It was published in Kraków in 1591; in Frankfurt in 1726, with the addition of explanatory notes; a 1958 edition with sources and an introduction, edited in London and published in Jerusalem; and a modernized version in Jerusalem in 2010, incorporating several of the preceding features.

Mateh Moshe particularly emphasizes the religious customs of Polish Jewry.

It draws on [https://seforimcenter.com/showScannedImages.aspx?pfile=12128.gif Editors introduction to 2010 edition] the teachings of Maharshal, Met's primary teacher, as well as numerous other works, not always named, combining these, so as to discuss one's duties in this world, from both a halakhic and aggadic perspective.

It comprises three "pillars", corresponding to those delineated in Pirkei Avot 1:2:

• Torah: Teachings and demands due to the Torah (דרושים למעלת התורה); this section, often reprinted in other works
• Avodah, the "service of God": expanding on laws in the Orach Chayim section of Shulchan Aruch
• Gemilut Hasidim, acts of kindness: expanding on Yoreh Deah