The Gaon Rabbi Yoel ben Rabbi Shmuel Sirkis, head of the rabbinical court in Krakow, composed Bach on the four Turim and Meshiv Nefesh on Ruth, and responsa. He lived from the year 5328 until 5398. [It is evident from the responsa that in the year 5328 he was in the holy community of Brisk, see 596. And 5353 in the holy community of Lomla, siman 2. And 5379 in Krakow.

And 5392 in Yiryah Lublin.]

These are the geonim who wrote to him and he to them in his responsa: The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Ashkenazi [in siman 92.] The Gaon Rabbi Binyamin of Slanik [author of Masot Binyamin, in siman 80.] And his son-in-law the Gaon Rabbi David [author of Taz, siman 112.] The Gaon Rabbi Aharon Zelik ben Rabbi Naftali [siman 89.] The Gaon Rabbi Yehuda ben Rabbi Chanoch [siman 89.] The Gaon Rabbi Yehuda, head of the rabbinical court in Tiktin [in the matter of a divorce that was arranged in the year 5398, siman 90.] The Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua [year 5398, siman 74.] The Gaon Rabbi Levi bar Betzalel of Prague [siman 67 and 116.] The Gaon Rabbi Levi of Ladmer [year 5372, siman 70.] His son the pious and great Rabbi Levi [siman 60.] The Gaon Rabbi Man, head of the rabbinical court in the holy community of Vienna [wrote to him, siman 67.] The Gaon Rabbi Mendel Rabbi Avigdorish [siman 76.] The Gaon Rabbi Moshe of Premislan [year 5351, siman 76 and 106. And in siman 96 the Gaon Rabbi Moshe.] The Gaon Rabbi Moshe Isserles [siman 137 and responded on the Rema siman 182 and siman 120.] The Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Falk, presiding judge [year 5374 in Belzna, siman 78.] The writer the Gaon Rabbi Fivos [siman 122.] The rabbi Rabbi Feyelman of Gromiza [siman 118.] The Gaon Rabbi Kapel, head of the rabbinical court of the holy community of Lvov outside the city [year 5387, siman 72.

In his youth he read the Haftarah in the synagogue where Maharshal was, at the end of the responsum.] The Gaon Rabbi Shlomo the pious of Lublin, head of the rabbinical court in the holy community of Pozna [siman 86.] The Gaon Rabbi Shmuel ben Rabbi Yehuda, legal judge [year 5390 in Krakow, siman 69. And he is Maharshal].