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, which is an abridgement of the lengthier commentaries. In 1671 he succeeded his father as rabbi of the Bohemian synagogue in Crakow. In 1689 he was appointed as rabbi of the Galician city Belz.