Issachar Bär ben Judah Carmoly (15 September 1735 – May 1781) was an Alsatian rabbi.
At the age of 10, he was sufficiently advanced in his training for the rabbinate to follow the elaborate lectures of Jonathan Eybeschütz.
Later, Carmoly studied successively at Frankfurt, under the direction of Jacob Joshua Falk (author of Pene Yehoshu'a), and at Metz, under Samuel Helman, who conferred upon him the title of rabbi.
[citation needed] Carmoly was the author of a commentary on the Tosefta to the treatise Betzah, published, together with the text, under the title Yam Yissakhar (Sea of Issachar; Metz, 1769).
The grandson of the author, Eliakim Carmoly, claimed to have had in his possession the following manuscripts of his grandfather: