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Azriel ben Moses Meshel, of Wilna
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Grammarian; lived at the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century. About 1700 he left his native town, Wilna, and settled with his family at Frankfort-on-the-Main. There he published, in 1704, in collaboration with his son Elijah, a prayer-book entitled "Derek Siaḥ ha-Sadeh" (The Way of the Plant of the Field; Genesis 2:5), according to the method of Shabbethai Sofer of Przemysl, with a commentary, "Miḳra Ḳodesh" (Holy Reading), containing the rules for punctuation and reading. A second edition of this prayer-book, with a German introduction, refuting the criticisms of Solomon Hanau on the first edition, was published by Azriel at Berlin in 1713, and a third at Wilhelmsdorf in 1721.
He published also: "Pilpula Ḥarifta" (Keen Discussions), novellæ on the order Neziḳin by Yom-Ṭob Lipmann Heller; and "Ma'amadot," recitations after the reading of the Psalms, by Menahem Lonzano, with additions of his own.
- Fuenn, Ḳiryah Ne'emanah, p. 102.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Azriel ben Moses Meshel, of Wilna'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/a/azriel-ben-moses-meshel-of-wilna.html. 1901.
