"
lie wrote the beginning of the nineteenth century. twoconmienturiesDM tin- Pentateucli "Tnral Knict " (The Teaching of tlie Tnitli) and "OIrI) Yisrael In liotli works Aliraliani gives (Till' Lover of Isnicl). four different explanations of the Scripture: the literal, the honiiletic, the allegoric, and the mystic. .
Bnn.iociHAPiiv
Wiildi'ii,
Slum lia-GeduUm
Iu-1I<iiIiikIi, p. 13. I!.
I.
ABRAHAM BEN JOSIAH OF JERUSA-
LEM: A
Kurailc author, who Uourishcd in the lirsi half of the eigliteenth century, lie went from Palestine to the Crimea, where, iu ITI'2, he finished Omen," a work on Karaite theology, ed"Enuuiah ited hy .lacoli Inn Abraham Firkovitch. Kupaloria. 1840. II<' treats of divinity and the immutaliility of the Law, on the main issues tietween Karaite and Piibhiiiite (loclrines, and on the relations of science to religion. Without exhiliiting any originalit}- of lliought, the work is remarkalile as displaying the thorough familiarity of the author with the entire raliliinical literature; it shows also the high esteem in which he held such authorities as JIaimoniih'S and Ihn Ezra. In 171-"). under the iiseudouym Abraham Kalai (after the town in which he resided at tlie time).
he wrote, under the
^SC buc
Shaol Shaal "), a work on the rules for the slaughtering of animals, u favorite Karaitic subject. .lost's doubts as to his identity with Abraham Yerushalmi were dispelled by Gottlober, " Bikkoret le-Tole<lot ha-Karaim," p. l")!. K. title
("
ABRAHAM BEN JOSIAH HA-ROFE
A
Karaitic scholar and physician, born iu Troki, a town near Wilna, in Lithuania, about l(!;i('i; died therein (iXX. lie was one of the leading scholars of Ids time, and, according to Karaitic tra<lition. a diseiide of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo. In his later years he wasappninti'd physician in ordinary to King John Sobieski (H!7-l-it(i) lie wrote a luimbcr of works on medicine and natural science, which, however, were never printed. Bint,in(;K,rirv Nf'ul«uit*r, Av» ilfr Petervhurqcr Bihlio.
thfk^ pp. 72, riS; Fuenn. Kcnc/tet Yit^racU pp. 28 ct
S.
II
sei/.
M. D.
ABRAHAM JTJD^US. See Auu.ii..m ihn ABRAHAM JVDJEVS MEDICUS. See AnuASiii.M M ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH Flourished in the
Ezii
i;i
N
I'oe.
(-nth ci-ntuiy at liaicclona. Spain. According tciDe Hossi (" nizzionario." p. ;.'ii7) there is, tliii li
among
the manuscripts of lislied
Vatican library, aii un])ub work by him, in four parts,
thi'
philosophical
called "Arba'ali Turim " (The Four Hows), which Ireals of Clod's existence, of divine |>rovi(lcnee. of the reasons for the Mosaic laws, and of the purpose of the Jewish prayers M. K.
ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH
A physician who wrote in Hebrew a mcdic.il wiak. ".Iareot lia Shetanim" (.spectsof the Irine); date of birth and death unknown. Acconling to a statement in the inlrodnetion. the aiilhor intiiidcd bis work to be a guide for youni; practilioiicrsand a refcriiiee book for laymen. Ill' promised, also, to make a compilation on this .same subject, drawn from the writings of the
best authorilies. Il is not unlikely that his book is oidy an exlniel from the work on mine written by ls.AC lHitAi;i.i, who died about ilod. Hllil,lliiin,l'liv: Sla'iiisi'liiU'liler.
Ihlir.
f
'i
licix p.
ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH BERLIN: rabbi;
ilicil
at
Amsterdam .March
i:).
son of the famous court Jew, Jost Liebman. and disciple of Isiiiah Horowitz, the second of that name at Posen. He was rabbi in Ilalberstadt in l(i!ti (Auerbach, "(jcsehichte der Israelitischen Gemeinde Ilalber.stadt," 18(i(i, p. 331), and in 1710 or 1717 he was called to Amsterdam, where until his death he olfi-
and jireachcr. He left no work behind him. and. judging from his contributions to the works of others, he does not appear to have pos-
eiatcd as rabbi
any originality, as shown bv the res|)onsji DnL"n Pn" by Eliakim Goetz, rabbi of Hildesheim, No. .)(; (Dyhcrnfurth, 1733), and also by Abraham's .scholastic notes on the Talmud, found in the collec.sessed
tion mirr hip of Judah Loeb ben Hanina Selig of Glogau, Amsterdam, 1729; reprinted various times,
and
lastly at Lublin, 1S97.
HiBi.ioORAPUY
Michael,
Or ha-Hauuim, No.
107.
I)
ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH DE BOTON. See BoTiiN. .i;i;uM .liiiAii ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH EBERLEN. See Ai;i:ai[a.m i)u ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH ELIMELECH iiiv
i:l.N
Kiti;ni,i-;.N.
iii;N
.li
(ALMALIK): A cabalistic wiitcr w Im lived at saro^ Italy) about the end of the lift cent h century
I'e-
and was probably a Spanish exile. He wrote a book entitled " Likktite Shikhah u Peah " (Gleanings), a cabalistic commentary on haggadie portions of the Talmud. In its preface the author gives some detail of his life. It was published, together with Josei)h ben Hayyim's commentary on the Ten Setirot. and Joseph Giquitilla's treatise on cabalistic subjects, Ferrara,
ir).5(i.
BuiLioiiRAFiiv: Michael, Or ha-Haui/im, No. 106; Benjaci'b, Ozar ha-Scfarim, No. aiO, p. ZlSf. J. L. S.
ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH I^ADIDA. See .Iidaii ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH IBN HAYYIM. haii iun See HwviM, .i;iiaiiam ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH LOEB. See MasKII.I.L.ImiN. .i;k UAM. ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH LOEB SARAAi'.i;aiiam ia;N oii 'VAL. >rr Se:a ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH SEGRE. See Ji daii. iiAi ABRAHAM KABASSI. See Kauassi, AbiiaAM ABRAHAM KIMHI. See Ki.Mi.n, Abraham. ABRAHAM KIRIMI. See KiitlMt, AbhaAM ABRAHAM KLAUSNER Sec Ki ai Aim Ml M c Koi.iskkk, ABRAHAM KOLISKER. M A ABRAHAM KONAT BEN SOLOMON. Sec KoNAr. .l'.l;MM, KIN Sol ONION ABRAHAM LANIADO BEN ISAAC, e I-vm Lamnoo. .r.i:MiM ABRAHAM LANIADO BEN SAMUEL. n Sxmii.i. See l.xNiMio .i'.iivnM. ABRAHAM OF LERIDA Physician, sur Hai)II>v. .f.i;AiiM
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.Ml that is known of him is geon. and a>tnilogir thai, on Si'plcmber I. M('>8. he couched a cataract the rigid eye of King John II. of Anigon. and ill afterward wasequally successful with the left eye. nini.ioc.RAPnv: Kuywrliiig, OcwJi. ilcr Jiulcii in /^lrtlly<l^
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