Joseph ben Meir Teomim

Joseph ben Meir Teomim (1727–1792; Hebrew: יוסף בן מאיר תאומים) [1] was a Galician rabbi, best known as author of Pri Megadim, by which title he is also referenced.

He was one of the foremost Torah Scholars of his time, a "thorough student of rabbinical literature, and... not unlearned in the secular sciences".

[2] His father, Rabbi Meir Teomim, became Dayan (rabbinic judge) and Rosh Yeshiva in Lemberg (Lvov), and the family moved there.

Teomim studied Torah, primarily under his father, in the Lvov yeshivah; while still young he took up a position as "preacher and rabbinical instructor" there.

Teomim's Pri Megadim (פרי מגדים, "choice fruits", published 1782)[3] is a widely referenced work on the Shulkhan Aruch.