Maharam of Lublin — Rabbi Meir ben Gedaliah המהר"ם מלובלין — רבי מאיר בן גדליה

Rabbi Meir ben Gedaliah was born in Lublin in 1558 and died there in 1616. He studied under his father-in-law, Rabbi Yitzchak HaKohen Shapiro, in Kraków; to Kraków he was called to the rabbinate in 1587, not yet thirty. Then Lwów (1591–1613), and from 1613 Lublin, where he kept a yeshiva until his death. Among his students was Yeshayahu Horowitz, the holy Shelah.

Meir Einei Chachamim consists of novellae on the Talmud, Rashi and Tosafot, short and dense; they are printed at the back of the volumes in standard editions. His responsa appeared separately — more than a hundred and forty answers to questions coming from all over Poland and beyond; from them historians read the workings of Polish Jewish trade, leaseholds and communal quarrels better than from any chronicle.

He was a contentious man. He objected to Maharshal, to Maharsha, to the Rema and to the Beit Yosef alike. By the Jewish Encyclopedia's report he reproached the Shulchan Aruch for being compilation without reasoning rather than law derived from its source — a reproach constantly heard in this generation.

He is often confused with Maharam Schiff (1605–1641), an entirely different man.