Rabbi Yosef ben Rabbi Mordechai Gershon, presiding judge of Krakow, the great rabbi crowned with five crowns: the crown of Torah, the crown of priesthood, the crown of royalty, the crown of greatness, and a good name. He composed responsa [called She'erit Yosef, which also contains commentaries on Mordechai on the order of Nezikin and Berachot and the minor tractates and the order of Moed and some of Tur Choshen Mishpat, printed 5350.] He spread Torah and was the head of the rabbinical court for close to fifty years and passed away at age eighty in the year 5351. [In his days was the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer, author of Ma'aseh HaShem, and the Gaon Maharshal, for they wrote to each other as mentioned in his responsa section 19.

At that time the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer was head of the rabbinical court in Pozna who came from Egypt, and he wrote to Maharshal in responsa section 17, and upheld the ruling of the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Betzalel Ash which Maharshal disputed with Maharari. In section 25 of his responsa he wrote to the rabbi Rabbi Avraham, head of the rabbinical court in the holy community of Lesla. In section 28 he wrote to the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Lieberman who was head of the rabbinical court in the holy community of the iron city and afterwards became head of the rabbinical court in the holy community of Pozna.

He wrote there that the Gaon Rabbi Meir of Padua agreed with his responsum. In section 31 he wrote 'my father-in-law the Gaon Rabbi David Silzburg.' In section 47 the Gaon Rabbi Binyamin of Shlezia. In section 67 a case came before him and before the elder and wise sage Rabbi Moshe legal judge of Nadah, and before his son-in-law the Gaon Rabbi Moshe ben Yisrael Isserles, end of 5318, and they sent the matter to three rabbis: Rabbi Meir Bern, Rabbi Yitzchak Shapangli, and Rabbi Yaakov Rodenitz.

In section 47 the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yafe, author of Achot Ami.] Also the pious and exceedingly wise one, the light of Torah, our master Rabbi Shlomo, head of the rabbinical court in the holy community of Lublin, passed away in 5351. Also our teacher Rabbi Moshe Luria, head of the rabbinical court in the holy community of Wirmishah, exceedingly wise in wisdom and old age, a great prince in Israel, passed away in that year.

For these two geonim they eulogized and lamented a great lamentation in every city near and far (Tzemach David).