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Sfej, Abraham

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Rabbinical author; born at Tunis in the early part of the eighteenth century; died at Amsterdam in 1784, while discharging the duties of collecting rabbi for the community of Jerusalem. Sfej left his native city and settled in Jerusalem, sojourning for a time in Constantinople. He wrote a work entitled "'Ene Abraham" (Amsterdam, 1784), a commentary on the "Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah" of Maimonides.

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  • Cazès, Notes Bibliographiques, pp. 299-301.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Sfej, Abraham'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​s/sfej-abraham.html. 1901.
 
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