Baer Hetev

Ba'er Hetev - R' Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Leib (c.1640-c.1706), Crakow, Poland; Author of the Yoreh Deah and Choshen Mishpat sections of Ba'er Heitev on Shulchan Aruch, an abridgement of the lengthier commentaries. In 1671, succeeded his father as rabbi of the Bohemian synagogue in Crakow. In 1689, appointed as rabbi of the Galician city Belz.