Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
Christmas Eve
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Encyclopedias
Ḥayyim, Abraham Israel

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

Search for…
Resource Toolbox

Italian rabbi of the eighteenth century; lived at Candia and Ancona. He wrote: (1) "Bet Abraham" (Leghorn, 1786), a casuistical commentary on the Ṭur Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ and on the "Bet Yosef" thereto (at the end of the volume is a treatise entitled "Ma'amar ha-Melek," on the laws of government); (2) "Amarot Ṭehorot" (ib. 1787), a similar commentary on the Ṭur Eben ha-'Ezer. Israel is quoted by Mattithiah Terni in his "Sefat Emet" (p. 73b, ed. Leghorn).

Bibliography:
  • Mortara, Indice, p. 30;
  • Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 392.
S.
M. Sel.
Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Ḥayyim, Abraham Israel'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/aayyim-abraham-israel.html. 1901.
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile