Shalom Shachna

Shalom Shachna (c. 1490[1] or c. 1510[2] – 1558) was a rabbi and Talmudist, and Rosh yeshiva of several great Acharonim including Moses Isserles, who was also his son-in-law.

Shachna was a pupil of Jacob Pollak, founder of the method of Talmudic study known as Pilpul.

In 1515 Shachna established the yeshiva in Lublin, which had the third largest Jewish community in Poland during that period.

(This, as well as the great scholarship of those who studied there, have led some to refer to Lublin as "the Jewish Oxford".)

Shachna was succeeded as head of Lublin Yeshiva by Solomon Luria (the Maharshal).